Today’s news that the (failing?) New York Times reported net income of $55.2 million, after losses a year earlier — and that its digital business raked in $709 million — is just one indicator that some of the nation’s oldest media properties are finally crossing the bridge into the 21st century. The Times managed to turn […]
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The Washington Post’s moving Super Bowl ad uses the power of Tom Hanks’ voice to defend journalism
The Washington Post aired a powerful ad narrated by Tom Hanks during Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, complete with its “Democracy Dies In Darkness” tagline.
The moving spot begins with shots of memorable news events — the March on Selma, the moon landing, the Oklahoma City bombing — but then shifts to paying tribute to journalists who have been captured or killed.
Among those the ad memorializes is Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whose murder was reportedly ordered by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Following Khashoggi’s death in October 2018, Trump has so far refused to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the killing. Read more…
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A Twitter employee groomed by the Saudi government prompted 2015 state-sponsored hacking warning
An explosive report in The New York Times this weekend sheds new light on the apparent targeting of Twitter accounts by “state-sponsored actors” three years ago. It comes in the wake of the confirmed death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday, two weeks after he disappeared in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi […]
View More A Twitter employee groomed by the Saudi government prompted 2015 state-sponsored hacking warning10 political podcasts to help you keep your sanity before the midterms
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In a time of volatile politics and chaotic news cycles, it can be hard to separate the signal from the noise, to stay informed without getting completely and totally overwhelmed.
Which is why, despite recent talk of a “podcast bubble,” the medium is exactly what we need right now. Podcasts can slow down and really study a topic or event, bringing in the kind of nuance that’s too often lacking in our current discourse.
Sure, partisan political podcasts — from the Crooked Media/”Pod Save America” crew on the left to Ben Shapiro’s show on the right — are still incredibly popular, as are news podcasts that dip into politics, like the New York Times‘ “The Daily.” Read more…
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View More 10 political podcasts to help you keep your sanity before the midtermsThe Washington Post instructs us to ‘Let the Trump team eat in peace,’ but people are not having it
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The Washington Post has jumped to the defense of Sarah Sanders a day after the press secretary was refused service at a restaurant.
The piece, titled “Let the Trump team eat in peace,” was written by the paper’s editorial board. In it they argue that Sanders, Kirstjen Nielsen, and Stephen Miller — all public faces of the administrations widely condemned immigration policy — should be left alone and “allowed to eat dinner in peace.” It’s an odd stance for this moment in history, and naturally it has a lot of people really riled up.
While the Post‘s board acknowledges that readers “will get no argument from us regarding Mr. Trump’s border policy,” they do argue against what they see as the incivility of interrupting someone’s meal. Read more…
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View More The Washington Post instructs us to ‘Let the Trump team eat in peace,’ but people are not having itFake Roy Moore accuser tries to trick the Washington Post and fails spectacularly
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Project Veritas, you just played yourself.
The group, founded by conservative “guerrilla journalist” James O’Keefe, tried to expose the Washington Post but ended up looking pretty dumb in the end.
It all started when a woman approached the Post with a story. She said that when she was 15 years old, she’d been impregnated by Roy Moore, the Alabama senate candidate who has been accused of sexually harassing and assaulting teenage girls.
But when the Washington Post fact-checked her story, it didn’t add up — and then they watched her walk into the New York offices of Project Veritas. The “sting” was supposed to expose, I don’t know, some liberal conspiracy against Moore. Instead it showed just how professional and thorough the Washington Post is when it comes to checking facts. Read more…
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View More Fake Roy Moore accuser tries to trick the Washington Post and fails spectacularlyRoy Moore scandal reaches new level of crazy with fake ‘Bernie Bernstein’ robocall
Just when it seemed the Roy Moore sexual assault scandal couldn’t get more unbelievable, someone went ahead and pretended to be a Washington Post reporter in a robocall.
After Moore’s wife’s shared fake news on her Facebook page in a misguided attemp…
Trump is on pace to lie 8,000 times by the end of his first term
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President Donald Trump is quick to use the term “fake news,” but in reality a lot of what he himself says is as fake, misleading, and inaccurate as it comes. He even tried to claim he came up with the term “fake news.” Add that to growing list of falsehoods.
The Washington Post has been tracking Trump’s lies since he was sworn into office earlier this year. That’s 298 days of falsehoods — some small, others way bigger. The paper’s total is at 1,628 lies, which breaks down to an average of 5.5 lies a day.
Assuming that he continues to lie at the same pace, by the end of the year he should hit about 2,000 false statements. By the end of his first four-year term as president he can be forecast to lie about 8,000 times. Read more…
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