Coverage of the 2016 election was an epic media failure. Will 2020 be any better?
Media
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Super Powers
Has a freshman member of Congress ever gotten this much attention?
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The ‘Weekly Standard’ and the Eclipse of the Center-Right
The neoconservative weekly’s troubles are symptomatic of a larger and more dangerous change in American media and politics.
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Facebook Anti-Soros Campaign Treated Hate Like Just Another Political Position
Feeding an anti-Semitic trope was payback for critique of company as “menace.”
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Who Gets to Tell Stories About Poverty?
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is redefining how we cover inequality.
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Trump Continues His War on Journalists
Even as Jamal Khashoggi’s likely murder commands headlines, the president is dehumanizing journalists on the campaign trail and priming his base for more assaults on the First Amendment.
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Why Trump Doesn’t Go After Jeff Bezos
Hint: It would require the serious use of antitrust law. When push comes to shove, Trump is more fellow plutocrat than populist.
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Twitter Abdicates Responsibility for What Appears on Its Platform
Disinformation is simply speech, says the tech company’s head of public policy.
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A Free Press in Europe? Not If We Have Anything to Say About It!
Trump’s State Department scraps an Obama-era proposal to bolster independent newspapers in Hungary.
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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Require Tech Companies to Carry Alex Jones’s Destructive Lies
The First Amendment’s protections do not mean that people have the right to be free of the consequences of what they say, or that companies have an obligation to provide them a platform.
