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FILTER RESULTS ►Dan Froomkin: New Torture Reports Blames Obama and the Media for Not Confronting the Truth
It's not just Bush and Cheney who violated international law; now it's Obama, too. The report is blistering about the cover-up. The end result is a society in moral disarray.
Media coverage of poverty: Why so little?
By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News
"Why is there so little coverage of Americans who are struggling with poverty?"
So begins a thought-provoking essay by Dan Froomkin in Nieman Reports, a respected publication that covers journalism, raising a subject that is getting mor …
Dan Froomkin: Careening Toward Telecom Dystopia (But Can We Stop It?)
In her new book, Susan Crawford compellingly and disturbingly makes it clear that we are well on our way to a very disturbing future of expensive, substandard and unequal Internet access -- with Comcast boldly leading the charge.
In Case It Wasn’t Already Obvious, Mistah Kurtz Shows Yet Again He Hews Rightward
It's been common knowledge for years that the Washington Post, the House the Graham and Bradlee Built, has long since descended into neocon cesspittery with the rise of Fred Hiatt and the exile of Dan Froomkin. What's not quite common knowledge is how it got there.
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Victorian Gadgets Brad DeLong (April 2012): U.C. Riverside Seminar: Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy An assessment by Dan Froomkin of of William Saletan: "The case for torture": "There's a line between idiotic, toxic contrarianism and the active embrace of evil. Show More Summary
Dan Froomkin: Commuting John Kiriakou's Sentence Would Be a Step in the Right Direction for Obama
Had John Kiriakou actually engaged in torture, he wouldn't be in any trouble at all -- he never even would have been investigated. But because he talked about torture with reporters, he's going to prison.
Dan Froomkin: How Many Dead and Wounded Soldiers Ago Did Obama Give Up on Afghanistan?
Why did Obama wait two years to "change his mind," and four years to pull out? Over 1,300 American servicemembers have died in Afghanistan since the summer of 2009 -- well over half of all the dead during the entire war. When did he know it was hopeless?
Dan Froomkin: How Many Dead and Wounded Soldiers Ago Did Obama Give Up on Afghanistan?
Fred Kaplan writes for Slate that President Obama has called it quits in Afghanistan, to which I say darn right and about time. But how...
Dan Froomkin: Zero Dark Thirty and Why It's So Important to Rebut Claims That Torture Works
When we talk about torture "working" -- in the context of al Qaeda, for instance -- we presumably mean successfully extracting accurate information. But that's not what torture is about, and never has been.
Dan Froomkin: Zero Dark Thirty and Why It's So Important to Rebut Claims That Torture Works
For several weeks now, like a lot of people who care about torture, I have been expressing my unhappiness that the plot of the movie...
Dan Froomkin: Zero Dark Thirty Is a Despicable Movie, Even if Bigelow and Boal Didn't Intend It That Way
Do yourself a favor, and don't go see Zero Dark Thirty. Don't encourage film-making that at best offers ambiguity about torture, and at worst endorses it. Spend the two and a half hours and the $10 on something more valuable, and mo...
The biggest "missed story" of the 2012 campaign?
By Richard K. Barry Hey guys, you're not the only ones paying attention. I'm really not sure how to read this story, which, before I weigh in, I should explain. Dan Froomkin at Huffington Post references a couple of guys who have been...Show More Summary
The “Single Biggest Story” Of 2012
No, it wasn’t the election. The Huffington Post’s Dan Froomkin takes a big swipe at “the mainstream media” today, accusing all involved of having “bungled the single biggest story of the 2012 campaign” — “Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the [...]
The Biggest Political Story of 2012
Dan Froomkin: "Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues." "But according to longtime political...Show More Summary
How Villagers Missed The Big Story of Election 2012
enlarge It seems fitting to look back on the election from a distance and see someone besides bloggers tell the tale of how the mainstream media completely missed the boat on their Election 2012 reporting. Fortunately, Dan Froomkin has...Show More Summary
Sunday Long Read: “How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign”
This one is worth giving the Huffington Post a click. Dan Froomkin—ejected from the Washington Post for being insufficiently ‘bipartisan’—reports: Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues. Show More Summary
Media Fail!
Dan Froomkin explains: How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign So what is the biggest story? The fact that the Tea Party dominated Republican Party is a train wreck. Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about [...]
Jonathan Bernstein: Where the press failed in 2012
Today's must-read is Dan Froomkin's interview with political scientists Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein about what they call the great uncovered story of 2012: "the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both inShow More Summary
Dan Froomkin: How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign
Fearful of appearing biased, the elite political press failed to call sufficient attention to the Republican Party's radical agenda and disdain for facts. The result is that in the name of balance, the press actually put its thumb on the scale, and prevented a true reckoning.
Dan Froomkin: Tonight, Obama Meets Lincoln -- But Will He Listen?
It's been 148 years since the events dramatized in Lincoln. Much has changed, but much is the same. The question now is how the tall, pensive man in the White House will use his power, and whether he will rise to the challenge of history.
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