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Article in Media Matters by Lis Power & Gideon Taffe, 1/21/25

Headline:  “Right-wing media gloss over Trump’s pardons for violent January 6 rioters”

“Right-wing media have been quick to obscure the facts about President Donald Trump’s pardon of January 6 rioters, suggesting that he pardoned only nonviolent offenders and ignoring the pardons that went to violent offenders who assaulted police and carried weapons.

“The list of people pardoned by Trump includes at least one person who was charged with seditious conspiracy and hundreds more who were “convicted of assaulting police, carrying firearms, destroying property or otherwise contributing to the violent rampage.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/right-wing-media-gloss-over-trumps-pardons-violent-january-6-rioters

Article in Daily Kos by Oilber Willis, 1/21/25

Headline:  ” ‘Great president’: Mainstream media slobbers all over Trump”

“Early in Donald Trump’s new presidency, mainstream media outlets confirmed fears of how they would cover him—by avoiding the truth, equivocating on his abuse of power, and even praising him.

“The actions by widely read and watched outlets was the continuation of a recent trend that has seen outlets like ABC News, MSNBC, and The Washington Post cave to Trump, even before he was sworn in.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/21/2298201/-Mainstream-media-fails-the-Trump-test-on-his-first-day-back?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_4&pm_medium=web

Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jon Alsop, 1/21/25

Headline:  “Pomp, Policy, and Pardons”

Subhead:  “How the media saw Trump’s return to power.”

“. . .According to Punchbowl News, only twenty reporters were allowed inside to cover the proceedings, due to space restrictions. Whether they were the only journalists present, however, depends on how you define the term. Tucker Carlson was there, as was Joe Rogan. So were media moguls, plural: Rupert Murdoch, who needs no introduction; Bernard Arnault, who needs no introduction as the CEO of the luxury conglomerate LVMH but perhaps does as a French media tycoon; Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. Bezos bought another journalist in with him: his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, a former local TV anchor in California. . .”

“. . .Kid Rock was on Fox News talking to Sean Hannity. He still had a cigar in hand, but was now dressed in black tie. After extolling the January 6 pardons as ‘great’—and dismissing Biden’s as a ‘clown show’—he turned his attention to the press and what he perceives as its unfair treatment of Trump. ‘I think people are really starting to see through what the mainstream media has tried to do to this man,’ he said. ‘It’s a travesty.’

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/pomp-policy-and-pardons.php

Article in The Nation by Malaika Jabali, 1/20/24

Headline:  “In 2025, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Economic Populism Is More Relevant Than Ever”

Subhead:  “The political media calls Trump a “populist.” But as Dr. King made clear in a 1965 speech, American populism was a movement against everything Trump stands for.”

“The name ‘Donald Trump’ and the word ‘populism’ have become so intertwined you would think the latter was invented by Trump’s MAGA movement itself. In one 24-hour period, just days before the reelected president’s inauguration, the political media published nearly a dozen articles linking Trump to populism. Even a Japanese outlet made the connection in an op-ed last week: ‘Tune in to American populists,’ the headline reads, referring to the group of mostly white ‘working and middle classes’ who sent Trump to office.

“But the Trump-spawned political rage that the mainstream media likens to ‘populism’ erases the real origins of the idea. This year, on the birthday of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., it’s more important than ever to remember that populism is a political philosophy that’s closer to King’s vision than to MAGA’s.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/mlk-economic-populism/