I watched Trump’s insane press conference today. According to some reporting, it came as a surprise even to his top staff. Apparently, he just
Category: Media
Plastic-bag news blackout
The media encountered an intentional news blackout at Mar-A-Lago yesterday. When reporters arrived at Trump’s Palm Beach resort to cover his golf outing
Stephen Miller: New Bannon/Trump apologist is scarier than Conway
President Bannon/Trump has trotted out a new spokesperson—Stephen Miller—and he’s even scarier than KellyAnne Conway. I saw him interviewed the other evening, and his
Trump’s disgraceful CIA visit: Kurt Eichenwald’s full Tweet storm
Newseek reporter Kurt Eichenwald has unleashed a long Tweet storm explaining why intelligence professionals are so outraged about Donald Trump’s performance at the CIA
Trump’s tweets: a taxonomy of trouble
We have done such a poor job of processing Donald Trump’s tweets. Our reaction has always been to immediately parse the literal content. Fact-check
Trump’s London Times transcript: What he said vs. what they reported
In an attempt to sound like he knows something about foreign policy, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Michael Gove, of the Times
Trump’s incoherence on full display at press conference
Don’t rely on condensed and cleaned-up news reports of Donald Trump’s Jan. 11, 2017 press conference to give the full picture of his incoherent
Time’s edited transcript of Trump’s Person-of-the-Year interview: What’s missing?
What did Donald Trump really say during his Person-of-the-Year interview with Time magazine? We will never know, because Time has published only edited excerpts
My post on Trump’s NYT interview transcript went viral: Why?
Why did my recent post–featuring excerpts from the transcript of Donald Trump’s New York Times interview–go viral? I have a theory. But first, some
Is there a link between belief in fake news and belief in religion?
The airwaves are currently filled with both outrage towards and defense of the fake news that has been competing with “real news” of the