Editorial Content

In Crisis, Collaborating Important

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Irene Romulo and Nina Weingrill, 7/28/26

Headline:  “In a Fast-Moving Crisis, What Is the Role of Journalism?”

Subhead:  “Community news organizations, enmeshed in an information ecosystem on social media and messaging apps, can verify, clarify, and connect.”

“. . .A Media Impact Funders report argues that journalism needs to build infrastructure that is ‘shared, long-term, coordinated, and system-oriented,’ rather than episodic or project-bound. That includes adding coordination roles, offering community training, building trusted networks, and maintaining relationships with community organizations between crises. . .”

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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/in-a-fast-moving-crisis-what-is-the-role-of-journalism-brazil-flood-venezuela-earthquake-whatsapp-signal-rapid-response-immigration-customs-enforcement-ice-information-sharing-ecosystems.php

Losing His Grip on Media?

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Article in Media Matters by Staff, 7/24/26

Headline: “. . .Trump’s grasp on current issues has faded because ‘he’s no longer connected to the media landscape that used to give him that insight’

Subhead:  “. . .Fox News is just echoing back to him what they think he wants to hear. All the people around him are totally sycophantic. … The incentives are just so deeply baked in now that they’ve forgotten how to have their own opinion.”

Listen to the audio at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/ms-now-msnbc/angelo-carusone-ms-nows-line-trumps-grasp-current-issues-has-faded-because-hes-no

Applauding Epstein Revelations?

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Article in Meidas Touch News by Brett Meiselasm 7/24/26

Headline:  “Awkward Moment at WHCD as Trump Applauds Reporters Who Exposed His Epstein Ties”

Subhead: “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner produced one of the night’s most surreal moments as Trump congratulated reporters honored for exposing his Epstein ties.”

“President Donald Trump sat on stage smiling as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer presented The Wall Street Journal with the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability—an honor recognizing the newspaper’s reporting on Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the fallout that followed. . .”

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https://meidasnews.com/news/awkward-moment-at-whcd-as-trump-applauds-reporters-who-exposed-his-epstein-ties

30 Years for Box of Magazines

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Article in FAIR by Dorothee Benz, 7/22/25

Headline:  “Prairieland Was a Test, and Corporate Media Failed”

” ‘Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,’ an Intercept headline (6/26/26) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined 450 years in prison. . .”

“One of the defendants, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, was not even at the protest. He was, as the Intercept’s headline correctly reported, sentenced to 30 years because he moved a box of zines. . .”

“Yet the extremely harsh sentences for Sanchez Estrada and the others did not set off any alarm bells among corporate media. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/prairieland-was-a-test-and-corporate-media-failed/

No Diving Under Tables This Time?

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Article in AP by Jocelyn Noveck, 7/24/26

Headline:  “White House correspondents’ dinner, redux: What will Trump have to say?”

“. . .But it’s also clear that some people felt the dinner should not be rescheduled at all.

“Many never thought it was much of a good look in the first place, with the sight of journalists in formal wear cozying up to their sources, or the objects of their reporting.

“ ‘It undermines the public faith in how the press does its work, and it makes it look like we are pals with the people we cover,’ Kelly McBride, an ethics expert at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, said when the deliberations were taking place.

“The new dinner comes during a time of fast-increasing tension between the media and a president . . .”

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https://apnews.com/article/correspondents-dinner-trump-shooting-white-house-dfa0ecdbe3552910903d5c23a8e96a35

To Cover Crazy or Not?

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Article in The Hill by Sophie Brams, 7/17/26

Headline:  “Carville criticizes CNN, ABC, NBC for not airing Trump speech”

“Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville on Friday criticized major television networks for not airing President Trump’s speech on election security the previous night, saying that it was a mistake for CNN, NBC and ABC not to provide ‘blanket coverage’ of what he sees as the president’s deteriorating mental state.

“ ‘I think the president of the United States acting loonier than a tune is newsworthy,’ Carville told CNN host Wolf Blitzer during an appearance on the network. ‘I don’t think we should have hidden that from the American people.”. . .”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5975040-carville-trump-speech-network-coverage/

JD Vance OP-Ed Fireworks

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Article in The Atlantic by Peter Wehner, 7/4/26

Headline: “What J. D. Vance Once Knew”

Subhead:  “Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day has now arrived.”

“. . .In the midst of a social crisis, Vance observed, Trump offered ‘an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution.’ But, he argued, such promises were a cheap high. ‘He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein.’

“ ‘Trump is cultural heroin,’ Vance wrote. ‘He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it’. . .”

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/jd-vance-trump-independence-day/687779/

Editor’s Words Still Ring True

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Article in Poynter by Staff, 7/4/26

Headline: “A message about the importance of the free press”

Subhead:  “On America’s 250th birthday, we reprint the words of the late Poynter chairman Eugene C. Patterson”

“Eugene C. Patterson fought Nazis as a tank platoon leader in World War II. He fought for civil rights as a crusading editor at The Atlanta Constitution in the 1960s. He fought for high standards and ethical journalism in all his roles as a newspaper editor, including as CEO and chairman of the St. Petersburg Times. . .”

“He wrote these words, which in 1984 were published in a book by the Society for Professional Journalists. . .” [words are above]

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https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2026/eugene-patterson-free-press-message/

Rt. Wing Media Worry About Cuba

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Article in Media Matters by Janos Balazs, 7/2/26

Headline: “Right-wing Spanish-language media caution that attacking Cuba won’t be as straightforward as the Maduro raid”

Subhead: “One guest said any potential U.S. military action in Cuba ‘would have to be much larger than Venezuela’ “

“As tensions have risen between the U.S. and Cuba, some Spanish-language right-wing media voices have cautioned that regime change in Cuba won’t be as easy as President Donald Trump’s raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in early January. While hosts have generally expressed support for such actions, they’ve claimed that the Cuban government is ‘more closed off’ than Venezuela; that former Cuban leader Raúl Castro has ‘the whole army as personal security’; and that ‘there is no Delcy Rodríguez’ in Cuba, referring to the former vice president of Venezuela who replaced Maduro. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/spanish-language-media/right-wing-spanish-language-media-caution-attacking-cuba-wont-be

O’Reilly Decides Who is a Journalist?

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Article in The Wrap by Jacob Bryant, 7/1/26

Headline: “Tucker Carlson Are Only Anti-Trump Because They’re ‘Personalities,’ Not Journalists.  ‘I’m not in it for clicks,’ he adds”

“. . .While talking with Piers Morgan on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored,‘ O’Reilly was asked why he thought Kelly, Carlson and even people like Marjorie Taylor Greene had all started attack Trump more often. . .”

“O’Reilly thought that it all came down to one very important thing: Kelly and Tucker were personalities and not real journalists.

“ ‘Well, look, I can’t speak for them as far as their motivation is concerned. I can tell you that they’re not journalists! None of them are,’ he said. ‘They are personalities and very successful personalities. . .”

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https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bill-o-reilly-slams-megyn-kelly-tucker-carlson-anti-trump/