Letters to the Editor: Trump gamed the media since his ‘Apprentice’ days. How can the media atone?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Trump gamed the media since his ‘Apprentice’ days. How can the media atone?

LA Times  

To the editor: It may not be fair to single out Fox News as a reason to distrust the media and journalism. By manufacturing his image as a reality show star, that corporate media organization laid the groundwork for the public to accept him and his lies and elect him president twice. The recent apology to America in U.S. News and World Report by former NBC marketing executive John D. Miller for promoting Trump as the star of “The Apprentice” may assuage his guilt, but it fails to undo the damage we already have and will continue to suffer. As one American who ended my L.A. Times subscription many years ago due to its failure to separate the news from opinion, I am hopeful that eventual changes at this newspaper will cause me to want to renew my subscription. Actual news should reside in the news sections, reported by actual journalists; opinions should reside in the opinion section, penned by opinion leaders.

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Donald Trump threatens to sue authors and media who use anonymous sources
1 month ago

Donald Trump threatens to sue authors and media who use anonymous sources

The Hindu  

U.S. President Donald Trump, furious over a disparaging new tell-all book about him, threatened on Wednesday to sue authors and media outlets that use anonymous sources. In a social media post Trump said that after what he called his wildly successful first month back in power, "Fake books and stories" with anonymous sources are coming out and "at some point …

What purpose does Trump’s media strategy serve?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

What purpose does Trump’s media strategy serve?

Al Jazeera  

The US president’s controversial proposals are garnering global attention. United States President Donald Trump has made headlines since his return to the White House. Whether it’s suggesting Canada become America’s 51st state, planning to rename the Gulf of Mexico, or threatening a military takeover of Greenland, Trump is dominating international news. So, can Trump’s administration sustain the breakneck speed at …

Column: Stop the outrage. To cope with Trump, ignore what he says and watch what he does
2 months ago

Column: Stop the outrage. To cope with Trump, ignore what he says and watch what he does

LA Times  

In the months following Donald Trump’s election to his second term as president, many who did not support him seemed to go into hibernation. Terms including “outrage exhaustion,” “resistance fatigue” and “surrender” have been thrown around to describe the marked difference between the reaction to the beginning of Trump’s first presidency and his second, with Democrats often described as being …

The war on fake news has backfired
2 months ago

The war on fake news has backfired

Salon  

Brian Stelter, CNN 's chief media analyst, recently tweeted that “fact-check” had become a dirty word. Stelter’s assessment followed Meta ’s announcement that it would scrap its fact-checking processes—once central to the post-2016 response to the proliferation of so-called fake news. Since Trump’s emergence as a political figure in 2015, the media’s warnings about his attacks on journalists as purveyors …

Letters to the Editor: Why MSNBC isn’t the left-wing equivalent of Fox News propaganda
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Why MSNBC isn’t the left-wing equivalent of Fox News propaganda

LA Times  

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano wrote an incisive essay about the toxic nature of the Fox News broadcast on the New Orleans terrorist attack. But, after criticizing the demagogic “rants and slants” of the Fox News’ hosts, he spoiled his essay by saying, “That’s why I rarely watch MSNBC, either.” This is a tired old false equivalency, implying that MSNBC …

'Failing to tell the central story': Reporter reveals what media misses in Trump coverage
2 months, 3 weeks ago

'Failing to tell the central story': Reporter reveals what media misses in Trump coverage

Raw Story  

In a recent post to his blog, veteran journalist Dan Froomkin argued that mainstream media outlets' coverage of President-elect Donald Trump has been dismal in its grasp of who Trump is on a fundamental level. He opined that media outlets that failed to "situate Trump’s words and actions in the context of an ongoing con" were engaging in "deception" by …

The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance
4 months, 2 weeks ago

The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance

CNN  

New York CNN — Donald Trump’s reelection last week emboldened his allies to proclaim that he had vanquished the American news media as well as Vice President Kamala Harris. Maybe, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan commented last week, the media collectively spent “too much time obsessing about polling and not enough time talking to people!” O’Sullivan and other correspondents interviewed voters all …

The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance
4 months, 2 weeks ago

The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance

CNN  

New York CNN — Donald Trump’s reelection last week emboldened his allies to proclaim that he had vanquished the American news media as well as Vice President Kamala Harris. Maybe, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan commented last week, the media collectively spent “too much time obsessing about polling and not enough time talking to people!” O’Sullivan and other correspondents interviewed voters all …

What Trump’s win means to news organizations as mainstream media fight for relevance
4 months, 3 weeks ago

What Trump’s win means to news organizations as mainstream media fight for relevance

LA Times  

Imagine if the Super Bowl audience dropped by 25%. “A lot of legacy-media people were pining for Trump’s return because they know it’s going to be a s— show every single day,” Martin said. “It won’t be the obsessive fascination with this novel phenomenon that it was last time,” said Andrew Heyward, a former CBS News president who now advises …

Media Executives See More Deals, Less Regulation Under Trump
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Media Executives See More Deals, Less Regulation Under Trump

Live Mint  

Media executives see the possibility for more mergers and deregulation enabling the growth of broadcast and TV empires with the election of Republican Donald Trump to the US presidency. “That would provide a real positive and accelerated impact on this industry that’s needed.” Media and telecom executives have begun weighing in on what a second Trump presidency may mean for …

Analysis: Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility

CNN  

New York CNN — Donald Trump’s return to power is a hinge point for the American media – in ways big, small, and to be determined. For a time on Wednesday morning, The Federalist’s lead headline was not about Trump, it was about the “corporate media industrial complex” being “2024’s biggest loser.” Legacy media “is officially dead,” The Daily Wire …

Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he'd do to the media if elected
5 months, 1 week ago

Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he'd do to the media if elected

NPR  

Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he'd do to the media if elected toggle caption Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump often basks in the glow of press attention. One in three journalists says they've faced violence — or the threat of it "President Trump was a champion for free speech. And Trump said he …

Trump again ignores First Amendment and says news network should be investigated
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump again ignores First Amendment and says news network should be investigated

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’ve never seen this before, but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced …

The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously
5 months, 3 weeks ago

The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously

Salon  

The way political journalism worked before Donald Trump seems quaint in retrospect. Trump lied his way all the way into the last month of the 2016 presidential election before the New York Times deigned to use the words “lie” and “Donald Trump” in the same sentence. The national media certainly didn’t know what to make of Trump, and neither did …

'Sanewashing': Analyst blasts media for highlighting 'sense' in Trump's 'abnormal rants'
6 months, 2 weeks ago

'Sanewashing': Analyst blasts media for highlighting 'sense' in Trump's 'abnormal rants'

Raw Story  

President Donald Trump's rhetoric and ideas are being "sanewashed" by the mainstream media as they pull selective quotes from his speeches and mask otherwise obvious extremism, argued Jon Allsop for the Columbia Journalism Review. "As applied to Trump, the idea is that major mainstream news outlets are routinely taking his incoherent, highly abnormal rants — be they on social media …

Trump fumes over embarrassing claims he was cut off by Fox News while ranting about Harris speech
7 months ago

Trump fumes over embarrassing claims he was cut off by Fox News while ranting about Harris speech

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A seemingly rattled Donald Trump fumed on Truth Social after …

Fox News cuts from Trump's economy speech to Karl Rove's frustrated sigh
7 months, 1 week ago

Fox News cuts from Trump's economy speech to Karl Rove's frustrated sigh

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump tried to break through the Democratic convention coverage with another rambling speech on the economy that was carried live on Fox News, C-SPAN 2 and briefly on CNN. However, Fox News cut away from the comments, where former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove explained that it was a hodgepodge of off-the-cuff lines from his rally …

'Don't believe media hype!' Radio host blows up reports about Trump's RNC viewer numbers
8 months, 1 week ago

'Don't believe media hype!' Radio host blows up reports about Trump's RNC viewer numbers

Raw Story  

Donald Trump broke two records with his speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night – not only did he deliver the longest speech ever in the history of party acceptance speech, but it was More than 25 million people tuned in to watch Trump’s keynote address, with Fox News raking in the most viewers, Axios reports. Fox News raked …

The self-preservation of the media
11 months ago

The self-preservation of the media

Salon  

The American news media, as an institution, has mostly failed to rise to the challenge of the Age of Trump – even after more than 8 years of experience. For example, in an excellent critical review and essay at The Philadelphia Inquirer about Alex Garland's new film “Civil War,” Will Bunch highlights how its main characters are emblematic of the …

Trump and the US media’s conflict of interest
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump and the US media’s conflict of interest

Al Jazeera  

This election year, each story about Donald Trump must first pass the Lonely Planet test. “There is no doubt about Donald Trump’s impact on ratings,” Cooper responded, amiably. The possibility of another Trump term has led to a bout of public acknowledgements among media professionals that while the former president threatens democracy with his incessant falsehoods and norm-busting practices, he …

Media must stop overcorrecting for too much Trump exposure: The public needs a closer look at him
1 year, 4 months ago

Media must stop overcorrecting for too much Trump exposure: The public needs a closer look at him

Salon  

Democrats are reeling this week from having been bounced around like pinballs with bad polling results for 2024 followed by excellent returns in the off-year elections. For instance, CNN had announced their latest 2024 poll showing that Joe Biden is narrowly losing to Donald Trump a year from now and they were breathlessly "analyzing" what that meant for the Democrats, …

All Trump, all the time? Former president’s legal problems a boon to MSNBC
1 year, 5 months ago

All Trump, all the time? Former president’s legal problems a boon to MSNBC

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — During a recent “Morning Joe” discussion of another development in the four indictments of former President Donald Trump, NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian predicted, “we are in for a real show next year.” MSNBC is not just counting on that to be true. “MSNBC has pretty well-established themselves as the leading anti-Trump network, certainly of late,” said …

‘Existential fight’: Five ways the media must cover Donald Trump as an authoritarian threat
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Existential fight’: Five ways the media must cover Donald Trump as an authoritarian threat

Raw Story  

The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is promising to dismantle this country’s government institutions and increase his power if he returns to office. An August article published on the blog Press Watch pleaded with newsroom leaders not to treat this election as “business as usual.” Doing so could include: Using a “democracy frame” instead of a “horse race …

Fox News Becomes Horror Movie In Montage Of Reactions To Trump's Third Indictment
1 year, 7 months ago

Fox News Becomes Horror Movie In Montage Of Reactions To Trump's Third Indictment

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING If you think the new charges against Donald Trump are scary, wait until you see Fox News’ reaction to them. Kat Abu of Media Matters for America edited real responses from the right-wing channel’s personalities into a faux horror movie trailer posted on Wednesday. so I made last night's coverage into a horror movie trailer: pic.twitter.com/JuiLT5NF7N — …

Trump’s Fox and CNN town halls expose media’s inability to fact-check a fountain of nonsense
1 year, 9 months ago

Trump’s Fox and CNN town halls expose media’s inability to fact-check a fountain of nonsense

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump finished his town hall on Fox News on …

Letters to the Editor: Opinion: Why is CNN providing Trump with free media exposure once again?
1 year, 10 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Opinion: Why is CNN providing Trump with free media exposure once again?

LA Times  

To the editor: Jackie Calmes got it right in asking, “Here we go again?” In the 2016 election, Calmes said, Trump received an estimated $5 billion in free media, which obviously played a huge part in Trump’s win. CNN held a town hall meeting for Trump; the L.A. Times still shows Trump’s picture frequently in some articles. Ken Derow, Swarthmore, …

MSNBC Panel Warns What To Expect From Donald Trump’s CNN Town Hall
1 year, 10 months ago

MSNBC Panel Warns What To Expect From Donald Trump’s CNN Town Hall

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING CNN’s decision to host a live town hall with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday drew condemnation from MSNBC anchor Joy Reid and her two guests on Monday’s episode of “The ReidOut.” Angelo Carusone, from progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America, and conservative pundit Charlie Sykes, joined Reid in questioning the cable network’s move and …

How the Trump Years Weakened the Media
1 year, 11 months ago

How the Trump Years Weakened the Media

Politico  

The Trump years, like the Nixon years, came with triumphal language in which journalists portrayed ourselves as soldiers in a righteous army. It’s closed, but I’ll talk to our folks… Several years ago the editors at the New York Times decided the whole event was such an unseemly spectacle they stopped buying tables at the dinner. We see this now …

Fox News in the news
1 year, 11 months ago

Fox News in the news

NPR  

Fox News in the news Why cover the network and its people? Enlarge this image Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor When NPR does a story on Fox News or its on-air personalities, we often hear complaints from audience members. When we talked to media correspondent David Folkenflik, he explained why he believed the …

Fox News boss was angry with anchors for fact-checking Trump: ‘Bad for business’
1 year, 11 months ago

Fox News boss was angry with anchors for fact-checking Trump: ‘Bad for business’

Hindustan Times  

Fox News CEO wanted the reporters of the network to stop fact-checking former US president Donald Trump's statements on the 2020 elections, emails show. In the emails, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott wrote to Fox News Executive Vice President of Primetime Programming Meade Cooper demanding that the reporters must stop fact-checking Donald Trump's false claims. In other emails she wrote …

Trump has lost his 'safe space' on Fox News
1 year, 11 months ago

Trump has lost his 'safe space' on Fox News

Raw Story  

As Donald Trump plunges headlong into his third bid for the presidency, he appears to be getting the cold shoulder from Fox News which could hinder his chances of re-election. As Grynbaum noted, normally reliable Trump supporter Jason Chaffetz -- a former GOP House member -- recently lashed out at the former president after his recent interview with Fox News …

Ex-Fox News Editor Reveals What The Network Thinks Of Its Audience
2 years ago

Ex-Fox News Editor Reveals What The Network Thinks Of Its Audience

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A former Fox News editor fired after the network correctly predicted Joe Biden’s 2020 election win in Arizona said Wednesday that he failed to understand “how deeply afraid” network bosses were of the cable channel’s own audience. Chris Stirewalt told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that he understood Republicans would be upset about Donald Trump’s defeat in the pivotal …

Fox News' reasons for lying to its viewers go deeper than 'money, power and fame': conservative
2 years, 1 month ago

Fox News' reasons for lying to its viewers go deeper than 'money, power and fame': conservative

Raw Story  

Questions continue to be raised over Fox News executives allowing on-air personalities to continue to spout conspiracy rumors about the 2020 presidential election results while at the same time they were privately texting and emailing each other, acknowledging that they were helping to spread lies. RELATED: 'I strongly disagree': Fox News host speaks out after company bans reporting on Dominion …

Fox News contributor says network wants to move past Trump
2 years, 2 months ago

Fox News contributor says network wants to move past Trump

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Fox News and the rest of the conservative-leaning side of …

Donald Trump announces 2024 White House bid: How the media can cover his presidency campaign responsibly
2 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump announces 2024 White House bid: How the media can cover his presidency campaign responsibly

Firstpost  

Now that Donald Trump is running for US president in 2024, journalists cannot follow the usual rules for covering a candidate who routinely defies democratic norms and lies with abandon Now that he’s in the 2024 presidential race, the media circus that is Donald Trump is returning for a new season. There’s a third reason that Trump will get the …

The new CNN chief trying to shake off channel's post-Trump hangover
2 years, 6 months ago

The new CNN chief trying to shake off channel's post-Trump hangover

The Telegraph  

In a note to staff, he said CNN should act as a "truth-teller, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers". The big question is whether Licht's tilt away from opinion will prove a miscalculation that could cede further ground to Fox News, or revive the channel’s fortunes. Fox, the right-leaning opinionated news network that championed Donald Trump's presidency, secured an …

Why CNN Is Booting All the Trump Critics Who Work There
2 years, 6 months ago

Why CNN Is Booting All the Trump Critics Who Work There

Slate  

On Thursday, Sept. 1, in a prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden described Trumpism as a clear and present danger to American democracy. Many, many Republicans are rallying behind his lies about the 2020 election, and other things as well.” John Harwood before his departure from CNN pic.twitter.com/TIFcvENMKn — Adam Parkhomenko September 2, 2022 The next …

Donald Trump Offers To Help Nemesis CNN In World-Turns-Upside-Down Moment
2 years, 6 months ago

Donald Trump Offers To Help Nemesis CNN In World-Turns-Upside-Down Moment

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump cozied up to nemesis CNN Sunday in an offer to make the news network a “gold mine.” “If ‘low ratings’ CNN ever went Conservative, they would be an absolute gold mine, and I would help them to do so!” the former president wrote on his sputtering Truth Social platform, according to the Daily Beast. Trump …

Fox News' CEO doesn't hold back his criticism of Trump in private: report
2 years, 7 months ago

Fox News' CEO doesn't hold back his criticism of Trump in private: report

Raw Story  

While Fox News isn't exactly known for being overly critical of Donald Trump, the network's chief executive has openly criticized Trump, saying he disagrees with how the former president behaves, sources tell CNN. CNN's Oliver Darcy writes that "the dichotomy helps explain why the right-wing channel continues to be supportive of Trump, despite recent reporting that indicates the Murdochs are …

Top Fox hosts lobbied Trump to act on Jan. 6, texts show
3 years, 3 months ago

Top Fox hosts lobbied Trump to act on Jan. 6, texts show

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The revelation that Fox News Channel personalities sent text messages to the White House during the Jan. 6 insurrection is another example of how the network’s stars sought to influence then-President Donald Trump instead of simply reporting or commenting on him. Fox has always tried to distinguish between “news” and “opinion” programming, even though those lines are …

Wall Street Journal reporters object while opinion section prints Trump’s letter to the editor
3 years, 5 months ago

Wall Street Journal reporters object while opinion section prints Trump’s letter to the editor

CNN  

CNN Business — The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section published a lengthy letter to the editor from Donald Trump on Wednesday that was full of the former US president’s debunked claims and conspiratorial falsehoods about the election he lost last year. One day later, the Journal’s editorial board justified the decision by saying “we trust our readers to make up …

Insiders reveal how Fox News became a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump
3 years, 7 months ago

Insiders reveal how Fox News became a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump

ABC  

Gretchen Carlson is most famous for her role in exposing former Fox chief executive Roger Ailes as a sexual predator, her story brought to life by Nicole Kidman on the big screen in Bombshell. Former Fox News Washington-based political editor Chris Stirewalt observed a "long, titanic" struggle between Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. In 2017, when asked if the raft of …

Conservative media provide soft landing for Trump’s election lies
4 years, 1 month ago

Conservative media provide soft landing for Trump’s election lies

LA Times  

President Trump gives a thumbs-up to supporters en route to his Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving office on Jan. 20. In another conversation with the Trump-supporting One America News Network, he said, “The tabulation wasn’t exactly good.” The series of interviews raise the possibility that Trump could provide a caustic running commentary on his successor, President Biden. Responding to Biden’s criticism …

Fox News fed on Trump's lies. As ratings dip, it can't escape
4 years, 2 months ago

Fox News fed on Trump's lies. As ratings dip, it can't escape

LA Times  

America’s most militarized Inauguration Day in modern history is ours to witness Wednesday when Joe Biden is sworn in as the nation’s 46th president surrounded by 25,000 National Guard troops, armored vehicles and razor wire. Sean Hannity on Fox News on Aug. 14, 2017, discussing events surrounding that summer’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. Fox News did not …

Donald Trump calls Fox News ‘dead’ as he steps up feud with network
4 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump calls Fox News ‘dead’ as he steps up feud with network

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Trump has taken …

Trump-friendly Newsmax seeks to cut into Fox’s viewership
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump-friendly Newsmax seeks to cut into Fox’s viewership

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Now that his largely invisible network has suddenly been flooded by fans of President Donald Trump, Newsmax television personality Grant Stinchfield is puffing out his chest. “We’ve really cornered Fox from the right,” said Chris Ruddy, Newsmax founder and friend of Trump. “Donald Trump is the most powerful person in the world,” said Greg Kelly, a former …

Trump-friendly Newsmax a sudden competitor to Fox News
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump-friendly Newsmax a sudden competitor to Fox News

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ruddy traced much of Newsmax's increase to Trump supporters angered by Fox's election night …

Trump TV is the next logical step. But who is loyal to him now?
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump TV is the next logical step. But who is loyal to him now?

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The previous pretender to the “network …

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: We may be a divided nation, but we’re united in not trusting the news media
4 years, 4 months ago

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: We may be a divided nation, but we’re united in not trusting the news media

LA Times  

Tuesday’s election made clear, once again, how politically divided we are as a nation. Not only did its blatant cheerleading for President Trump severely undermine the network’s credibility as “fair and balanced,” studies have found that its viewers reject established science on issues such as climate change and are generally less informed than even people who watch no news at …

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