Biden's excellent advice to political journalists: 'move past the horserace numbers and the gotcha moments and the distractions, the sideshows that have come to dominate and sensationalize our politics; and focus on what’s actually at stake' presswatchers.org/2024/04/biden-…

Come for the Epoch Times/Steve Bannon links, stay for the Australian investigation into Falun Gong, the charismatic religious rightwing cult that produces the Epoch Times.

mediaanddemocracyproject.org/epochtimes

Yes. We have a whole research page on the Epoch Times.

“This page summarizes some of the ties between Epoch Times and other players in the rightwing universe. We include links to some key investigative pieces by various media organizations…”
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Biden wants to be re-elected without doing the hard work of giving interviews. But no one deserves an important job that they didn't have to work for.

by A. G. Sulzberger

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John Harwood NYT: We're not elitist!

Also, NYT: The thing that demonstrates the president's mental acuity is not his accomplishments, his understanding of policy, or his 50 years in government but rather if he'll do a sit-down interview with us

Astead John Harwood There's no way you could win a college debate repping the position the NYT practices using equally applied standards, expectations, and consequences in its reporting and political analysis on Democrats and Republicans, Astead.

(I subscribe, BTW. Audit headlines & social copy)

The White House's critiques of NYT coverage as described in the Politico article are completely legitimate. And yes, as I wrote here, it is publisher AG Sulzberger's fault: presswatchers.org/2024/03/why-is…

Rupert Murdoch pays propagandists to sabotage reality for millions of people and subvert democracies on 3 continents.

His Fox is a malevolent propaganda factory without news org standards.

Excellent by Mark Jacob 👇

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If you are a journalist and you genuinely think your beat is that boring, you should be reassigned or quit because you will only produce bad journalism. Not enough of the WH press has sufficient interest in the real work of policy making and governing, and it shows in their work.

Decoding Fox News Piers Morgan Support Media & Democracy Project's Petition to Deny FOX's license to broadcast in Philadelphia.
Broadcasters must have good character to be on the air (not on cable.)
FOX does not. Murdoch's Right-hand man spearheaded; many Rs signed on.
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Decoding Fox News Piers Morgan The Media and Democracy Project 📺 📰 While people can sign on, this is not primarily a signature gathering effort.
This is a legal 'petition to deny' FOX's license pending at the The FCC right now. It uses Dominion's lawsuit as foundation.
Even former Repub FCC Commissioners have written in support.
It's a big deal.

Good for The Media and Democracy Project 📺 📰 & Bill Kristol for their initiative to challenge Fox's status as a legit news organization at the FCC. newsdirect.com/news/media-and…

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To me the unwritten NPR story is this one. Asymmetry between the major parties confounded their both-sides logic. They couldn't get through to themselves well enough to sense what was needed. See my 2011 post, 'They Brought a Tote Bag to a Knife Fight.' pressthink.org/2011/03/they-b…

Yes, there's too much news but this republican effort to destroy public education is flying too low beneath the national news radar. Thankfully, local news reporters like Phil Williams are on it. Others should be, too.

Not a word in this piece (or the extended version on the website) about the impact of price gouging & shrinkflation. The “why” is supposed to be a key part of journalism. Do better CBS News.

GROCERY PRICES HAVE BEEN FLAT FOR A YEAR. This is a misleading story that does nothing but reinforce the inflation panic narrative while mangling details. Also, it’s funny how inflation can fall for a year without coverage, but ticks upward a smidge and you get this nonsense.

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