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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

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NPR gives a masterclass on how not to do damage control

What, exactly, are we taxpayers paying for here?

22.04.2024 10

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

It's beginning to look a lot like 2016

In politics, anything can happen. But at the rate things are going, Donald Trump seems increasingly likely to return to the Oval Office. Last week,...

08.04.2024 20

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Trump episode shows why the news industry is suffering a 'bloodbath'

The Biden campaign, working fist-in-glove with the press, accused Trump of threatening a literal massacre. In related news, public confidence in...

25.03.2024 10

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Who radicalized the Associated Press?

If you make it harder for yourself to communicate clearly about national news topics, that will eventually be reflected in your coverage.

11.03.2024 10

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

Too white for school: WaPo's silly attack on Nikki Haley

The Washington Post hit Nikki Haley this week with an especially silly bit of opposition research, a hit piece that feels as if it was plucked...

26.02.2024 5

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

You should question much of what you read about the war in Gaza

You should probably believe journalists when they share their sympathies so openly on social media.

12.02.2024 10

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

Media election suppression? Early election-call hypocrisy in Iowa threatens democracy

If we care about election integrity and some semblance of public comity, let’s try acting like it.

22.01.2024 7

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The media hate plagiarism, but they want a special carve-out for Claudine Gay

When it comes to one of the cardinal sins of journalism, the media are taking quite an uneven approach to the president of Harvard.

08.01.2024 6

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

A media dedicated to saving Democrats

The worst thing about so much of today’s news reporting isn’t that it’s one-sided — it’s that it is so one-sided as to be boring.

18.12.2023 4

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

The New York Times keeps taking the terrorists' word at face value

The Times report relied entirely on the word of "Gazan officials” — in other words, Hamas.

04.12.2023 30

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It took a historic massacre of Jews for the Washington Post to decide colleges shouldn't opine on world events

Now colleges are condemning the indiscriminate slaughter of civilian Jews in Israel, and the barbaric spectacle of campus demonstrators cheering the...

20.11.2023 6

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The US media's moral blindness over Hamas is showing, and it isn't pretty

In the clearest moral test in a generation, much of the U.S. media has failed. And not just a little — they have failed spectacularly.

06.11.2023 3

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

With their Israel coverage, are the media trying to start World War III?

The consequences of this newsgathering disaster go much deeper than just the media's credibility crisis.

23.10.2023 2

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The media's coddling of John Fetterman looks pretty embarrassing right about now

Journalists seem to have learned all the wrong lessons from their colleagues' bullying of Dasha Burns.

25.09.2023 10

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No point at all: Please just end the daily White House press briefing

Let’s stop pretending the daily briefing is a legitimate, newsworthy event.

11.09.2023 10

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