press

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• 1/28/20
  

  Secretary Pompeo, Meet Vice President Agnew

  by Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, and Jerald Podair

  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s expletive-laden dust-up with NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly is on message for the Trump-led Republican Party. Whether he knows it or not, Pompeo is drawing from a playbook written a half century ago. 

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• 11/24/19
  

  Fake News and the Founders: Get Used to It!

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  Fake news did not diminish as the nation matured. Indeed, it became entwined in the nation’s literary fabric.

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• 9/22/19
  

  Dan Rather Claims the Press and Faith Will Get Us Past Trump's Transgressions. Is He Right?

  by Michael McQuillan

  Dan Rather on Watergate's lessons for today. 

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• SOURCE: Daily News
  1/13/19
  

  Kruse and Zelizer: It's 'Network' nation: How our media became overrun by polarization, outrage and attitude

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  While contemporary commentators have noted the ways in which the news industry has become increasingly partisan, they have not given enough weight to another, equally important aspect of the industry’s modern history — the ways in which news has become sensationalized.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4-28-18
  

  A Century of Feuding Between Presidents and the Press

  by Julian E. Zelizer

  Years before it began its annual dinner, the White House Correspondents’ Association started as an effort to hold the president accountable to the press—a mission as urgent as ever.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-20-13
  

  The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project

  "Forbidden City" the headline proclaimed. It continued: "Uncle Sam's Mystery Town Directed by '2d Einstein.'"

• SOURCE: CS Monitor
  5-31-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: Protect the Watchdog Press – from Obama

  Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is the author of “Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory” (Yale University Press).Did the White House misrepresent the Benghazi, Libya, attacks to cover up its own ineptitude? Did the Internal Revenue Service purposefully target conservative groups for scrutiny?Americans rely on journalists to cast light on these thorny issues. But if reporters can’t do their jobs, everyone else will most likely remain in the dark about serious government mistakes.That’s why all Americans should be deeply alarmed about the Obama administration’s recent investigations of news organizations, which have drawn far less ink than the Benghazi or IRS scandals. And that’s exactly backward. The most worrisome threat right now is to the people who actually produce the ink: US journalists.

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• Is the Press Too Big to Fail?

  by Todd Gitlin

  Image via Shutterstock.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com