Stop putting whatever Trump says about Iran in the headlines

Ever since he intemperately attacked Iran over three months ago, Donald Trump’s every prognostication about the war has commanded major news headlines. Whether he is declaring victory, threatening annihilation, or insisting that a peace deal is two or three days away — all of which he has done, in succession, many times now — his words are splashed across the…Read More

Trump’s brutality is showing inside and outside Newark’s Delaney Hall

The pavement outside the Delaney immigrant detention center in Newark, N.J., has become the front line of the resistance against the brutality and cruelty of the Trump regime. What’s happening there deserves more coverage than it’s getting from our major news organizations. National news outlets should be on the ground, filing daily reports, while their colleagues use the events there…Read More

Saturation coverage of Trump’s fictional Iran ‘deal’ ruined my weekend

Any thinking journalist is aware by now that when Donald Trump says something – especially about the war in Iran – it may or may not be true. (And probably isn’t.) This has been well documented. Consider the April 29 Washington Post article headlined: “Trump’s statements on Iran increasingly contradict each other,” or the May 6 Associated Press article headlined…Read More

News headlines adopted Trump’s deceptive framing of his new $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund

There was no “weaponization” of the Biden Justice Department. There are no “victims” who deserve “compensation”. The $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund the Trump administration announced on Monday is not a legal “settlement” of Trump’s risible lawsuit against his own IRS. Everything about this heist of tax dollars is a lie and a fraud. In its scope and its shamelessness,…Read More

Journalists must forcefully decry the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

There can be no doubt about this one. The federal arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a Minneapolis protest represent a prima facie violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press. Without that guarantee, journalists are in danger anytime they produce anything the government doesn’t like. Without that guarantee, we are one…Read More