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Becket Adams, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
The media are supposed to hold the powerful to account. They are a lot better at enforcing groupthink.
The internet incentivizes the very worst kind of behavior, as this shameful pile-on demonstrates.
I was the program director of a journalism training center in Washington, D.C., a city with six professional teams and zero sports reporting gigs....
People will tolerate a lot, but a phony rarely goes far.
Oh, those media fact-checkers and their weird fondness for playing the pedant.
How did we end up in a situation where we can't trust what we read?
It was a shocking story in 2021. It was also a total fabrication.
Facts that aren't really facts at all keep surfacing in the mainstream, because so many liberals believe them.
One must question what standards, if any, are being applied to the cushiest, best-paying jobs in media.
The frantic, overblown, hair-on-fire coverage points to something no one believes will happen.
An immigration enforcement officer fatally shot a woman in Minnesota last week, plunging the scandal-plagued state further into civil unrest. With the...
If there is one rule that modern journalists love to break, it’s the one about making the story about themselves.
We should have outgrown all of this loony-tune nonsense. It is now 2025, after all.
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We live in a world where awards named after our most famous journalists are given to actual clowns.
Some journalists are working overtime to make habitual drunk drivers and even murderers seem like sympathetic characters.
Democratic lawmakers keep adopting positions so demented that even their supporters refuse to believe they’re real.
Shame on the New York Times and Dowd for once again running defense for a wretch just because he’s a Kennedy.
Instead of the promised ruthless efficiency of obscure professionals, the Biden administration ended up being a murderers’ row of midwits and weirdos.
I was right, but I was also wrong. Let me explain. A little more than a year ago, I argued that, in the event of a Trump victory, the post-election...
Sharing an opinion is one thing. The moral choice to glorify an assassination is another.
Democrats are already trying to undermine trust in the next election's outcome — and journalists are helping them.
Who knew? Reporting what you feel is true versus what actually is true makes for poor journalism. A handful of reporters and pundits were outraged...
If the AP really did sympathize with Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the other anti-Israeli death cults, what would it be doing differently?
In better times, such a natural disaster would be met with a serious newsgathering effort and sober analysis. Not so today.
CNN's exclusive was questioned and criticized right from the start by a wide variety of commentators.
There is plenty of photo and video evidence showcasing the violent unrest in Los Angeles — everything from cars set ablaze to rioters hurling chunks...
How do the media make up for turning a blind eye to Joe Biden's obvious decline? Why, by hyper-scrutinizing President Trump, of course.
The press is using an emotional approach to influence the immigration debate, focusing on the personal stories of deportees rather than their criminal...
If you believe a president without checking, you might as well be a stenographer. If you believe Joe Biden without checking, you must be his press...
The very basic fact that he is a Salvadoran national illegally residing in Maryland, not just a "Maryland man," has escaped most of the media...
A 2020 study claiming Black babies were three times more likely to die when cared for by a white doctor than a Black one was found to be junk science,...
How can we debate these arrests if the media bury the justifications behind them?
Reuters retracted a report that falsely claimed a victim of a Palestinian terrorist attack was a member of Mossad, Israel's top intelligence agency,...
Vice President JD Vance criticized Europe for its "illiberal" laws restricting free speech, while CBS News defended Germany's censorship laws and...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris's team was reportedly sabotaged by Joe Rogan, but the real story is the incompetence and entitlement of the...
President Biden's farewell address was a cliché-laden mess, yet the media coverage described it as a "speech for the history books" and a "defense of...
President Biden's response to the dual attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas was criticized for its lack of urgency and lack of new information,...