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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

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Why they're so eager to make excuses for murder

Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended the celebration of cold-blooded murder, with no one in the press blinking an eye, as many...

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'Republicans pounce!' Bathroom battle falls prey to the media's dumbest cliche

Republican lawmakers have announced that Congress will continue to follow the centuries-old norm that men should use the men's room and women should...

25.11.2024 6

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No, Trump did not threaten Liz Cheney with a firing squad

The “firing squad” claim isn’t even a little bit true. It doesn’t lack context. He simply didn’t say what they said he said.

03.11.2024 4

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Kamala Harris's Fox News interview disaster shows how the media set her up to fail

Vice President Kamala Harris had a bad night on Wednesday. But more interesting than anything she said to Fox News anchor Bret Baier was what wasn’t...

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JD Vance was right about Minnesota's abortion laws

Minnesota has repealed and re-written its abortion laws, making it one of the most loosely regulated states in the union, with no requirement for...

07.10.2024 4

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ProPublica's abortion disinformation goes national

ProPublica published a dishonest narrative blaming the Supreme Court and the Georgia state legislature for the death of a young mother who had...

23.09.2024 20

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Laugh out loud: Harris is held to an unfair standard compared to Trump?

There is a double standard in how these candidates are treated. It’s just not the double standard some journalists think it is.

09.09.2024 10

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Don't blame just the media for thin coverage; blame Harris's zero-substance campaign

What can anyone say about Harris's policy positions that her spokesperson won't later deny? What can anyone say about Walz, her running mate, that...

26.08.2024 10

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President Biden's passing of the torch was hardly 'heroic'

President Joe Biden's decision to end his reelection effort was due to a combination of his own issues and the pressure from Democratic leaders and...

29.07.2024 10

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Biden deserves the benefit of the Goldwater Rule

President Joe Biden is facing a media feeding frenzy as medical professionals and journalists speculate about his health, with some violating the...

15.07.2024 30

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The greatest nothingburger: Rolling Stone's hilarious Alito 'scoop'

It’s just so weird when the press decides to relax its standards selectively. Well, not really.

17.06.2024 9

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In Rafah, media show they learned nothing from last year's hospital-bombing hoax

The wisest course of action would be to handle this latest incident carefully and wait for conclusive evidence. Unfortunately, patience does not...

03.06.2024 30

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CNN debases itself by acting as DOJ's free PR contractor

Journalism is all about comforting and covering up for the powerful. Isn't it?

06.05.2024 30

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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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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 30

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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 20

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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.

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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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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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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 20

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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 10

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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 6

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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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