False Equivalence
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Please be sure to read Binyamin Appelbaum’s assessment of a return to the gold standard, in today’s NYT. (Note: Appelbaum's…
When a congressional investigation turns into a partisan operation, the media need to treat it as such.
False equivalence, for those joining us late, is the almost irresistible instinct in mainstream journalism to present differing views…
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Defining obstructionism down
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"Democracy requires accepting defeat," and other quaint concepts
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The view from the right
"How many times do we have to refight the Civil War?"
"They don't know the difference between soil and dirt."
A struggle within one party, damage across the country
Two innovative ways out of a journalistic dead end
Studies in the self-lobotomization of a modern system
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One newspaper, straddling two different worldviews
It's not just for Americans any more.
Media notes on a return visit
Does 2006-vintage Obama make a hypocrite of the current version, when it comes to the debt ceiling? No.
The press' role in the new form of "defining deviancy down."