Pundits Ignore Things?

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Article in FAIR by Julie Hollar, 11/7/25

Headline:  “For Establishment Press, the Lesson of Mamdani’s Victory Is to Take No Lessons”

“. . .Corporate media acknowledged the strong rebuke to the Trump regime, but pundits and reporters across the country’s major national newspapers quickly warned Democrats against reading too much into Mamdani’s victory or shifting too far to the left. . .”

“It would seem that ‘pragmatism’ in the minds of the country’s establishment punditocracy means not the dictionary definition of ‘dealing with a problem in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist,’ but instead something more like ‘upholding the status quo.’. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/for-establishment-press-the-lesson-of-mamdanis-victory-is-to-take-no-lessons

Robot Doesn’t Write Headlines Here!

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Article in The New York Times by Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson, 11/7/25

Headline:   “Who Wrote That Headline? Maybe a Robot.”

Subhead:  “A.I. has taken newsrooms by storm, setting off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls.”

“. . .Artificial intelligence is sweeping through newsrooms, transforming the way journalists around the world gather and disseminate information. Traditional news organizations increasingly use tools from companies like OpenAI and Google to streamline work that used to take hours: sifting through reams of information, tracking down sources and suggesting headlines. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/media/ai-news-media.html

Full Mental News?

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Article in AlterNet by Robert Reich, 11/6/25

Headline:  “The media once again misses the real news about Trump’s rapid mental decline “

” ‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT’ . . .”,  according to Pollsters,’ Trump posted after Tuesday’s blowout, not naming the pollsters.

“Yet the media obediently repeated Trump’s words, as if they were news.

“They aren’t news. They’re postures. His words and thoughts add nothing to our understanding of anything. Yet the media reproduces them as if they did.

“He says whatever happens to be in his brain at the moment. He posts about whatever annoys him at the moment. He constantly changes his mind. His brain wanders in ways that cause many to question whether he — who will be 80 in June, and whose family has a history of dementia — is all there. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/trump-mental/

Media Swamps?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 11/6/25

Headline:  “Tucker’s WSJ Turbulence”

Subhead: “Inside The Wall Street Journal, Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker is navigating staff unease while reshaping the newsroom and quietly vetting candidates for its most powerful vacant roles.”

Read the article at:

https://www.status.news/p/emma-tucker-wall-street-journal-layoffs

Wrong Climate for News?

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Article in The Nation by Amy Westervelt, 11/5/25

Headline:  “The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion”

Subhead: “The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”

” . . .Now new research is highlighting the role the media plays in perpetuating this gap. Yale’s most recent climate opinion poll shows that while more than two-thirds of Americans want stronger climate policy, less than a third of them say they see coverage of the issue in the media at least once a week. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-media-perception-gap/

 

 

Local Reporters Are Vulnerable

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Article in Poynter by Michelle Zenarosa, 11/6/25

Headline:  “When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent”

Subhead:  “Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we’re still figuring out how to sustain it”

“When federal immigration operations began sweeping across Los Angeles in June, our newsroom worked around the clock. I didn’t have to tell them to. No one wanted to stop.

“One reporter’s family members were being followed. Another staffer’s family went into hiding — despite having legal status. Sources we’d cultivated for years suddenly wouldn’t answer calls. At LA Public Press, a 14-person nonprofit newsroom led by and largely staffed by people of color who grew up in the neighborhoods we cover, everyone on staff was personally touched by the raids in some way. We weren’t covering some abstract story happening to other people. We were covering home. . .”

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https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-journalists-covering-ice-raids-safety/

Youth – Dim View of the Press

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Carolina Abbott Galvao, 11/5/25

Headline:  “Biased, Boring Liars”

Subhead:  “More than three-quarters of teens surveyed have negative views of the press, a new study finds.”

“A study published today by the nonprofit News Literacy Project paints a bleak picture of how young people view the press. It found that more US teens think ‘reporters are skilled at lying than informing the public,’ and about half believe the news media frequently engages in ‘unethical practices such as making up quotes.’ When asked what word best describes news media, 84 percent of teens surveyed ‘expressed a negative sentiment,’ often using words like ‘fake,’ ‘false,’ and ‘lies.’ . . .”

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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/biased-boring-liars-news-literacy-perceptions-media-youth-cynicism.php

Rt. Wing & Media Enemies

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Article in AlterNet by Jon Stoehr, 11/5/25

Headline:  “Democratic elites fall for lies from Trump and the right-wing media complex”

“. . .to Donald Trump. All Democrats, all liberals, all progressives, all leftists, and all socialists, democratic and otherwise, are the name. They are radical Marxist anarchist communists or whatever word salad pops into his soupy brain. There are no enemies to his right. There is nothing but enemies to his left. Does he respect his enemies enough to speak truthfully about them?

“No, he lies. . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/trump-media-democrats/

The Enemy Media

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Article in The guardian by Betsy Reed, 11/6/25

Headline:  “In his first term, Donald Trump called journalists the enemy. This time around, he’s treating us like one”

“From Hungary to Russia, authoritarian regimes have made silencing independent media one of their defining moves. Sometimes outright censorship isn’t even required to achieve this goal. In the United States, we have seen the administration apply various forms of pressure on news outlets in the year since Trump’s election. One of my great disappointments is how quickly some of the most storied US media organizations have folded . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/trump-journalists-enemy

Media and the New Distortion

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Article in The Guardian by Arwa Mahdawi, 11/4/25

Headline:  “Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level”

Subhead:  “How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia?

“. . .As we all know, a good journalist should always make the rich and powerful feel comfortable.

“While I wait for that day to come, I’m watching and learning from the head honchos at CBS. Trump appeared on CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night for his first sit-down with the show in five years and commented on how much better the network has become after its owner, Paramount, was taken over by his billionaire allies, the father-and-son duo Larry and David Ellison. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/04/trump-media-buddies-are-muddling-reality-whole-new-level