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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

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The media hold the powerful to account — except when we don't

The media are supposed to hold the powerful to account. They are a lot better at enforcing groupthink.

23.03.2026 3

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'Lobstergate' shows just how far our media have sunk

The internet incentivizes the very worst kind of behavior, as this shameful pile-on demonstrates.

16.03.2026 4

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Sports reporters helped kill sports reporting

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....

09.03.2026 7

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The Democrats have an authenticity deficit

People will tolerate a lot, but a phony rarely goes far.

09.03.2026 5

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Kill 'fact-checking' with fire and the sword

Oh, those media fact-checkers and their weird fondness for playing the pedant.

02.03.2026 10

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Media credibility collapse: Readers must now decode and research the news

How did we end up in a situation where we can't trust what we read?

23.02.2026 30

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5 years later, yet another woke-era hate crime hoax has fallen apart

It was a shocking story in 2021. It was also a total fabrication.

09.02.2026 4

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The online left bubble-world has its own 'alternative facts,' too

Facts that aren't really facts at all keep surfacing in the mainstream, because so many liberals believe them.

02.02.2026 8

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Don Lemon is terrible, but what are we to think of those who employed him?

One must question what standards, if any, are being applied to the cushiest, best-paying jobs in media.

26.01.2026 10

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

The fake media panic over Greenland

The frantic, overblown, hair-on-fire coverage points to something no one believes will happen.

19.01.2026 30

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The Minnesota tragedy: No one knows and no one wants to learn

An immigration enforcement officer fatally shot a woman in Minnesota last week, plunging the scandal-plagued state further into civil unrest. With the...

12.01.2026 10

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'60 Minutes' staff bristles at basic editorial standards

If there is one rule that modern journalists love to break, it’s the one about making the story about themselves.

29.12.2025 20

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Embarrassing: Journalists demonize a true symbol of our revolution

We should have outgrown all of this loony-tune nonsense. It is now 2025, after all.

22.12.2025 20

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Trump responds to weekend of violence 

Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: President Trump responded to several incidents of violence that...

15.12.2025 20

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With pro-journalism groups like these, who needs critics?

We live in a world where awards named after our most famous journalists are given to actual clowns.

15.12.2025 10

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Who will think of all the poor drunk drivers and murderers being deported?

Some journalists are working overtime to make habitual drunk drivers and even murderers seem like sympathetic characters.

01.12.2025 20

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Democrats have insulated themselves from their own party's extremism

Democratic lawmakers keep adopting positions so demented that even their supporters refuse to believe they’re real.

24.11.2025 20

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Oh no — not another Kennedy nepo baby!

Shame on the New York Times and Dowd for once again running defense for a wretch just because he’s a Kennedy.

17.11.2025 10

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All Democrats had to do was seem normal and competent. It was too much to ask.

Instead of the promised ruthless efficiency of obscure professionals, the Biden administration ended up being a murderers’ row of midwits and weirdos.

03.11.2025 10

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The Biden-Harris recriminations are not at all what I expected

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...

20.10.2025 20

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Lost your job because you celebrated a murder? That's not 'cancel culture.'

Sharing an opinion is one thing. The moral choice to glorify an assassination is another.

22.09.2025 10

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Democrats lost, so the media thinks election conspiracy theories are good again

Democrats are already trying to undermine trust in the next election's outcome — and journalists are helping them.

08.09.2025 20

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Police arrested a guy for good reason — media baffled

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...

25.08.2025 20

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Paging the AP: What is going on with this Hezbollah coverage?

If the AP really did sympathize with Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the other anti-Israeli death cults, what would it be doing differently?

11.08.2025 20

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On Texas floods, the media take their cue directly from the Democrats' talking points

In better times, such a natural disaster would be met with a serious newsgathering effort and sober analysis. Not so today.

14.07.2025 20

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CNN has no one to blame but itself

CNN's exclusive was questioned and criticized right from the start by a wide variety of commentators.

30.06.2025 20

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LA riot coverage shows the media's Biden 'miss' wasn’t a miss at all — they just lie

There is plenty of photo and video evidence showcasing the violent unrest in Los Angeles — everything from cars set ablaze to rioters hurling chunks...

16.06.2025 20

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The media’s post-Biden show of contrition is just a setup

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.

02.06.2025 20

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The media's coverage of deportations is consciously manipulative

The press is using an emotional approach to influence the immigration debate, focusing on the personal stories of deportees rather than their criminal...

19.05.2025 10

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The real scandal is that any journalist ever believed Joe Biden in the first place

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...

05.05.2025 20

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'Maryland man' is the sort of thing that cost the media its credibility

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...

21.04.2025 20

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How lazy journalism helps bring junk science into the mainstream

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,...

07.04.2025 20

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When it comes to deportations, why are the media hiding the ball?

How can we debate these arrests if the media bury the justifications behind them?

24.03.2025 10

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Reuters beclowns itself, to Hamas’s benefit

Reuters retracted a report that falsely claimed a victim of a Palestinian terrorist attack was a member of Mossad, Israel's top intelligence agency,...

10.03.2025 20

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Trump resistance media 2.0: Like the original, but even more obtuse

Vice President JD Vance criticized Europe for its "illiberal" laws restricting free speech, while CBS News defended Germany's censorship laws and...

24.02.2025 20

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Harris-Rogan interview saga reveals only Democrats' incompetence, entitlement

Former Vice President Kamala Harris's team was reportedly sabotaged by Joe Rogan, but the real story is the incompetence and entitlement of the...

03.02.2025 20

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Biden’s pitiful farewell speech wows the media that covered up his decline

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...

20.01.2025 20

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Biden's response to New Year's attacks lacked urgency

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,...

06.01.2025 10

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