The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, has been bashing the FBI over the Trump assassination attempt. You may recall that Trump held a rally in an open field, a short-staffed Secret Service detail partnered with local cops to provide protection, and errors by law enforcement allowed the shooter to fi[...]
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August 27th, 2024 - 12:46 am § in News Media, Politics
Tomi Lahren is hopeless in debate
Tim Miller is a Republican operative who’s worked for Jon Huntsman, Jeb Bush, and John McCain among others. Like Tomi Lahren, he has a bachelor’s degree in communications (see his bio here); but he’s been around politics longer, and is more experienced, than her. However, that alon[...]
2024’s worst candidate
This isn’t an easy call to make, because there’s so many to choose from, but I’m going with Michele Morrow (photo, left; profile here), who won an upset primary victory in North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction race. That state’s GOP candidate for governo[...]
Tomi Lahren hasn’t improved over time
Tomi Lahren (photo, left) obtained a journalism degree, then sought work in political commentary, but she’s neither a journalist nor a political commentator. She’s a pretty face with helium between her ears who, these days, gets paid big bucks by Fox to parrot Republican talking points o[...]
Fact-checking the fact-checker
Usually we turn to fact-checkers to help us decide whether we can trust politicians. But sometimes the fact-checker comes under fire. This example, cited by MSNBC here, comes from PolitiFact. The Democrats played a 2016 video clip of Trump saying “there has to be some form of punishment for wo[...]
A brief history of free speech in America
Free speech as we know it occurred late in American history, is fragile, and could go away. For most of American history, unpopular political views could (and did) get dissidents, organizers, publishers, and even artists thrown in prison. The notion of a “free trade in ideas,” which spra[...]
Is Harris husband’s affair a big deal?
The tabloid Daily Mail thinks it is. They ran a big story here. Doug Emhoff (photo) admits he cheated on his first wife, but according to Politico, Harris knew about it she married him, and the Biden campaign knew about it when vetting Harris for vice president (see story here). “The incendiar[...]
True or False: Did Biden “open our borders” to fentanyl smugglers?
There are three basic kinds of facts: Real facts, legal facts, and political facts. “Real facts,” as the term implies, are reality. “Legal facts” are the pictures lawyers paint to juries, which may bear little or no resemblance to reality. “Political facts” are wh[...]
Yellow journalism
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, is a mixed bag. They pay for tips and photos, a disreputable practice in professional journalism circles. They’re also a rightwing propaganda soapbox and not above yellow journalism. But they often have pictures, names of suspects, and other information be[...]
July 14th, 2024 - 4:43 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media
Iconic photo?
It was taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci (bio here), and is a potential Pulitzer Prize winner. The Atlantic calls it “A legendary American photo.” The article gushes, “However you feel about the man at its center, it is undeniably one of the great compositions in U.[...]