The Inevitable Bias Avalanche in Las Vegas
"The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history." That was the summary of the horrific end to the country music festival on the Las Vegas strip, with 59 people killed and more than 500 injured.
Category Archives: Journalism
Coates promotes new book ‘We Were Eight Years in Power’
The award-winning author and journalist spoke before hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night at the New School in Manhattan, discussing his rise from obscurity to fame over the past few years and the country's transition from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump. Coates, who turned 42 last week, was interviewed by his editor, Chris Jackson, as he discussed "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy."
PHOTO: U.S. Ambassador in Russia John F.Tefft meets journalists on March 10, 2015, in Moscow.
The United States' outgoing ambassador to Moscow left Russia on Thursday after completing his posting, using the occasion to underline the Trump administration's desire to halt the deterioration in the two countries' relations. John F. Tefft, who became ambassador in 2014, has served during an extended period of crisis between Moscow and Washington, arriving at the height of the confrontation with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and representing the U.S. throughout the tumult following Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
Micek: Can Americans survive each other?
Two essays this week, by two very different authors, take us deep into the tribalism that marks our politics. Both should serve as a wake-up call for what we risk losing as a culture - as a nation - if we fail to reconcile our differences and heal long-festering national wounds.
What can we learn from the response to recent hurricanes?
The southern U.S. was hit by two record-breaking hurricanes this season. Irma was the most powerful hurricane ever observed in the open Atlantic and Harvey dropped the most rainfall ever recorded in the continental U.S. Time magazine editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss how disaster response has changed since Hurricane Katrina and FEMA's strategic pre-deployment of resources.
Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post: Katy Tur memoir previews media adventures from now on
Perhaps no individual journalist was more affected by the 2016 presidential election than NBC News' Katy Tur. Now she has published a memoir, "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History."
Your Twitter account may cost you your next job
If you're an active social media user on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and all the rest of the platforms, you've established a very public presence which is generally available to the entire world. You never know who you'll run into in this virtual space, and in many cases you may have folks tuning in who never even make their presence known.
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The Alt-Right and the 1%
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What’s ‘alt-left’? Experts say it’s ‘made-up term’
President Donald Trump equated white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville to counterprotesters by calling them "alt-left," prompting an immediate backlash and questions about the term itself. "What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right, do they have any semblance of guilt ... What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do," Trump said at a news conference Tuesday referring to a rally in Charlottesville that turned violent over the weekend.
Conservative Lee Stranahan Has YouTube Account Taken Down for DISCUSSING Radical Islam
Lee Stranahan is an American journalist and talk radio host. Lee has a long history of reporting in depth investigations on subjects like the violent #Occupy movement, immigration and radical Islam for Breitbart.com and Sputnik News .
Can both sides of the immigration debate unite for civil dialogue?
Thousands of Trump protesters gather in front of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles during “Free the People Immigration and Sanctuary for All” march on Saturday, February 18, 2017. One woman doesn't understand why some people think she's a racist just because she supports increased immigration enforcement.
Fox News
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events 'Chilling,' cried Fox News when one of its reporters was targeted in a leak case. Where's the outrage now? In 2013, when Fox reporter James Rosen was targeted by the Obama Justice Department during a leak investigation, a top network executive was appalled.
How The Left Plans To Crush Conservatism in Three Steps
When North Carolina recently enacted the Restore Campus Free Speech Act-affirming the right to individual expression on campuses statewide-conservatives everywhere breathed a sigh of relief. The silencing of conservative thought in academia has grown so deafening that the House Oversight Committee held a hearing solely dedicated to free speech at the end of July.
Big rise in number of active leak probes
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pledged to clamp down in government leaks that he said undermine American security, taking an aggressive public stand after being called weak on the matter by President Donald Trump. The nation's top law enforcement official is citing no current investigations in which disclosures of information had jeopardized the country, but says the number of criminal leak probes had more than tripled in the early months of the Trump administration.
Danielle McLaughlin: Ardern kid questions reminder of unequal road for Clinton
OPINION: In an episode to be filed under "inappropriate questions heard around the world", The New York Times late this week reported on the handful of Kiwi journalists asking new Labour leader Jacinda Ardern about balancing career and family. But the questions directed at her this week sent a shiver down the spine of many politics watchers, including those of us in the US who observed, with anger, the utterly sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton from opponents and the press.
Celebrated photo editor John Morris dies at 100 in Paris
In this file photo dated Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, 97-year old former Life Magazine, New York Times and Washington Post picture editor John Morris during an interview in New York City. In this file photo dated Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, 97-year old former Life Magazine, New York Times and Washington Post picture editor John Morris during an interview in New York City.
SHOCK: Scaramucci Wants FBI To Investigate Reince Priebus For Leaking His Financial Disclosure
UPDATE: According to reporter Ryan Lizza from The New Yorker , Scaramucci wants FBI, DOJ to investigate Reince Priebus for leaking his Financial disclosure! In case there's any ambiguity in his tweet I can confirm that Scaramucci wants the FBI to investigate Reince for leaking. White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci took to Twitter Wednesday evening to let his 690,000 followers know that he will be contacting both the FBI and Department of Justice after his financial disclosure leaked.
Children may be ‘iconic targets’ for terrorists, medical experts warn
And they say countries facing terror threats must prepare to deal with attacks with chemical weapons such as sarin or mustard gas, and attacks targeted at "iconic victims" such as children or emergency care responders. After Donald Trump publicly stated that he was disappointed in Jeff Sessions, his new Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci, agrees in an interview that the US President 'probably' wants Sessions fired.
Victor Davis Hanson:
Between 2008 and 2016, the media were unapologetic about their adoration of President Barack Obama. Now, they are energized by their thorough loathing of President Donald Trump.