Notices by Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org (froomkin@journa.host)

NEW! Vance’s racist attacks are just ‘rabble-rousing conservatism’ to the New York Times https://presswatchers.org/2024/09/vances-racist-attacks-are-just-rabble-rousing-conservatism-the-new-york-times-reports/

Political reporters should report honestly that Trump’s campaign is based on lies https://presswatchers.org/2024/08/political-reporters-should-report-honestly-that-trumps-campaign-is-based-on-lies/ New from me.

New! Reporters who have covered Walz give him generally high marks for responsiveness https://presswatchers.org/2024/08/reporters-who-have-covered-walz-give-him-generally-high-marks-for-responsiveness/

New: Don’t treat Trump like he has no agency https://presswatchers.org/2024/07/dont-treat-trump-like-he-has-no-agency/

NYT shows how to whitewash a hate movement: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/transgender-conservative-campaign.html

New! Did ‘vermin’ mark a turning point in Trump coverage? https://presswatchers.org/2023/11/did-vermin-mark-a-turning-point-in-trump-coverage/

As one WaPo commenter put it: "I am sick and tired of articles that seem to absolve the Republicans of their own idiocy and then blame the Democrats for not protecting us from the harm caused by Republicans." https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

RT @froomkin
As one WaPo commenter put it: "I am sick and tired of articles that seem to absolve the Republicans of their own idiocy and then blame the Democrats for not protecting us from the harm caused by Republicans." https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

This is how you interview assholes. My lord it’s fabulous.
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RT @verge
This week, @DecoderPod host @reckless asked Substack CEO Chris Best the tough questions about whether racist speech should be allowed in their new consumer product, Substack Notes.
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1646588861529706497

RT @jswatz
Look, I'm no expert. I just have a law degree and spent 5 years covering the FDA and its regulatory authority. But I don't see any way that there's a shred of valid legal reasoning to revoke approval of a drug the agency found safe and effective in 2000. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/07/texas-abortion-pill-ruling-mifepristone/

The Washington Post is in a state of complete free-fall. More on this later.

How can someone as off-the-charts self-conscious as Pamela Paul be so offensively un-self-aware?

Actually, wait, I know.
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RT @mollyhfischer
I wrote about Pamela Paul and the most perilous pronoun of all: the first-person plural https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rules-according-to-pamela-paul
https://twitter.com/mollyhfischer/status/1617917098382221313

"People obsessed with the dangers of wokeism are, in a word, assholes. They are oppressors who want to come off as martyrs. They are the leaders who want to shut up the rabble. Many are racists, misogynists and/or homophobes who want to sound noble." https://presswatchers.org/2022/07/who-hates-inclusivity-the-question-answers-itself/