Washington Last week President Donald Trump’s recently appointed chief White House strategist caused a stir among the press corps. He telephoned the New York Times, and in what the Times reported as “blunt but calm tones” proclaimed, “The media should…
Washington Post reporters made clear their anti-Donald Trump bias in a little-noticed Twitter exchange Monday. Post staff writer Joe Heim and reporter Dave Weigel openly admitted that they overlook the outrageous calls for anti-Trump violence coming from the Left, while…
At his pre-inaugural press conference in New York, Trump sarcastically said after a BBC reporter stepped up to ask a question, “the BBC, another beauty.” His dim view of the BBC is likely to deepen after today’s press conference with…
So Monday night I debated former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on President Trump’s latest actions on NAFTA. In the course of the debate I mentioned that my local dry cleaner opposed NAFTA because women’s garments coming in to…
I have only one hope for the Inauguration, and that hope and prayer is for just one more hack. For the record, I’m against hacking. The thought of my iTunes playlist being released to the public is frightening. Yes, I…
Whenever the Los Angeles Times wants to defame a conservative but can’t find direct evidence to do so, it falls back on the “some critics say” formulation of media bias. Sure enough that craven device appears in its story on…
Did you watch “the press conference”? Did you ask yourself how Donald Trump manages to get away with it? Were you asking yourself why other Republican politicians don’t deal with the press the way Donald Trump does? Did you hear…
“Donald Trump eats infants for breakfast, and washes the little tykes down with the blood of flies,” The National Ransacker reported today, based on an unidentified and gauzy source. “The information is unverified, but we believe Americans can make up…
In the era of Trump, the liberal media is reeling under the fear of faded privileges. Chief among them is the practice of passing off dominant and fashionable opinions as “facts” on front pages. Reporters, itching to expose Trump, have never…
There is standard progression in the world where journalism and politics intersect. After years of reporting and watching newsrooms shrink, many journalists go to work for the governments they covered, or for an elected official they covered, or for organization…