Today on Tap: There is far too much cheerleading and not nearly enough skeptical reporting.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Pelosi Attack as a Right-Wing Big Laugh
And the New York Times story notwithstanding, the attack had nothing to do with rising rates of San Francisco homelessness.
Posted inTAP
Fellow Journalists (and Our Academic Friends), It’s Time to Leave Twitter
Today on TAP: Well, provided some of the sacked Twitterati and alternative funders establish a non-Elonized forum.
Posted inPolitics
The Craziest House Race of 2022
In Orange County, California, Republican Michelle Steel is painting her opponent as a tool of China with unhinged red-baiting attacks.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Have a Symbiotic Relationship With Crime
You can’t whip up a hysterical meltdown about crime without lots of crime happening.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Who Are the Real Antisemites?
The actual hatred and the actual threat festers on the right.
Posted inPolitics
A Bite-Sized Policy Discussion in Pennsylvania
What has been a shallow, meandering campaign between Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman produced a similar kind of debate.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Altercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Sunday Shows Enable Republican Extremism
TV bookers apparently can’t stop themselves from giving an uncritical platform to anti-democracy demagogues.
