As Justice Department attorneys reportedly race to indict the former FBI director, a former federal prosecutor reflects on DOJ’s madness.
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Surrendering to MAGA Isn’t Just a Broadcast Media Problem
Capitulation is everywhere.
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Jimmy Kimmel, Broadcast Media, and Free Speech
While Disney-ABC and Skydance-Paramount-CBS cave to MAGA bullying, others hold firm, including The New York Times.
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Free Kimmel. Impeach Carr. Impeach Trump
The president and his FCC appointees should not threaten TV stations over jokes. That’s a simple case the public will understand.
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Inconvenient Truths on Cable and Broadcast News?
Climate hawks need to put more pressure on media outlets to adequately cover the environment.
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Riders on the Storm: The Disaster Trumpists Have Created
Defeating Trump in 2020 won’t be as easy as some liberals believe.
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The Media is the Message
I didn’t think the Fox News Channel could give us anything funnier than Laura Ingraham’s desperate attempts to garner ratings by insulting LeBron James, but the news that Fox has given another unlistenable wingnut radio host, Mark Levin, his own show—which begins tonight—is more hilarious than Redd Foxx in his prime: As previously announced, the […]
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McConnell’s New Motto: The Moore, the Merrier
Well, it’s not like he had any principles, anyway. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who once pretended to be outraged about the perceived perversity of Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore, made it clear today that he doesn’t think the alleged dirty old man is all that dirty: Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, who […]
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We Won’t Have Mark Halperin to Kick Around Any More
Mark Halperin is probably too disgraced even for Fox News.
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Jimmy Fallon’s Surrender to Donald Trump
His words couldn’t be any more pathetic. You could see the beads of flop sweat on Jimmy Fallon’s face on Sunday Today, as he tried to defend his reluctance to subject Donald Trump to intense ridicule on The Tonight Show: He doesn’t like talking about politics? He prefers to talk about pop culture? Dude, Trump […]
