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Who’s Faking, Trump or the News?
5 May 2017 … For getting a sense of what Americans think, decent polls, for all their deficiencies, are better than wild guesses. So consider the findings of a major poll that last month looked into the question of whom to believe, Trump or Continue reading
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The News Media’s Challenge in Our Constant State of Emergency
10 Oct 2017 … It’s old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. You can’t tear your eyes away. You can already write tomorrow’s story: Today the vicious, deranged freak-show star trashed Enemy A, picked a fight with Failed Insider Continue reading
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Danny Schechter Was Our News Dissector
3 Mar 2015 … The longtime media critic, producer, director and radio personality Danny Schecter died of pancreatic cancer last week. Continue reading
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The Reel World of News
2 Feb 1984 … A look at how newsreels grew into a unique 20th-century institution that informed and entertained whole generations. Bill Moyers conducts a tour of the cultural and political landscape so dramatically rendered by the American newsreel. Continue reading
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The News Today Was Awful… Except When It Wasn’t
7 Jul 2020 … Today juxtaposed the worst of America and its best. Continue reading
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The News Just Won’t Stop Coming
7 Jul 2020 … Coronavirus, the Russia bounty scandal, and the upcoming election continue to dominate America’s news. Continue reading
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Why Trump Can Lie and No One Seems to Care
5 May 2016 … Donald Trump is a serial liar. Okay, to be a bit less Trumpian about it, he has trouble with the truth. If you look at Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning site that examines candidates’ pronouncements for accuracy, 76 percent of Trump’s Continue reading
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While We Were Social Distancing
5 May 2020 … With mounting deaths, unemployment at Depression-era highs, and daily presidential briefing spectacles, there’s even more news flying under the radar. The team at BillMoyers.com brings you the news you need to know — some of it good, some of it Continue reading
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The Sitting President Has No Climate Plan. Why Isn’t That Headline News?
9 Sep 2020 … Getting this story right doesn’t take high-level math—just the normal journalistic commitment to present information in proper context. Continue reading
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Last Night: Shorenstein’s Latest Report and Debate Prep Non-News
9 Sep 2016 … This just in: Campaign coverage is focused on the trivial and sensational and ignoring the issues. Continue reading