It’s a fundamental, common sense rule of journalism: Hard news reporters don’t cover their friends. It’s just too difficult to be loyal to the truth when the truth makes a friend look like a jerk, or a crook. The same rule holds for commentators. Can they really give thoughtful, unfiltered opinions… CONTINUE
The Defects in Dennis Prager’s Romney Piece
It’s been a week since Mitt Romney’s Washington Post op-ed was published, in which the incoming senator and former Republican presidential nominee qualified his belief the President Trump’s poor character is detrimental to American leadership. And unsurprisingly, pro-Trump media-conservatives are still pretty fired up over the perceived betrayal. In a… CONTINUE
Pandering for Dollars in the World of Journalism
Many years ago, in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, the then president of CBS News met every week with the top brass of the CBS network at Black Rock, the company headquarters in Manhattan. After one of those meetings he returned to his office at the CBS News… CONTINUE
If It Bleeds It Leads — Especially If It’s About the President
Bad news is built into the DNA of journalism. Reporters don’t cover the bank that didn’t get robbed or the plane that didn’t crash. Tornadoes and earthquakes and hurricanes make page one. Sunny days don’t. But we all know that most banks don’t get robbed and most planes land safely and… CONTINUE
The Trump-Media War
Editor’s Note: Bill O’Reilly weighs in on the ongoing battle between the president and the press. -0- In a way, CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s editorial bomb throwing in a press conference with President Trump was a Pearl Harbor moment: the Trump administration has now officially declared war on the media… CONTINUE
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