What fills the void is what’s threatening democracy.
Media
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Return of a Criminal Neocon
Why does the foreign-policy and journalistic establishment still welcome Elliott Abrams?
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: How Republicans Argue: They Lie
Which the media generally doesn’t bother to point out (or contrast what they say with the truth) after quoting them
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Times Investigation of Tucker Carlson Was Superb—but …
Why does its daily coverage revert to bothsidesism and ignore the revelations in its blowout profiles?
Posted inTAP
Elon Musk, American Oligarch
Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Inflation Break the News?
The greatest threat to democracy from media isn’t disinformation, it’s the paywall.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Has The New York Times Learned From Its Trump-Era Disasters?
There is little sign the new executive editor Joseph Kahn is going to reckon with what the Republican Party really is.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: There Is a Cancel Culture, and It’s the Right That’s Advancing It
From banning books to dictating curricula, Republicans are the real cancelers, not that the MSM recognizes that.
Posted inTAP
Affirming the Prospect
Today on TAP: In which our work gets noticed and our impact credited
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: A Great Voice, and a Good Friend, Leaves Us
Eric Boehlert was the model media critic—and much, much more.
