News about the media.
Article in AP by Emma Burrows, 1/15/26
Headline: “International media flock to Greenland as Trump turns the Arctic island into a geopolitical hot spot”
“For several weeks, international journalists and camera crews have been scurrying up to people in Greenland’s capital to ask them for their thoughts on the twists and turns of a political crisis that has turned the Arctic island into a geopolitical hot spot. . .”
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Article in The New Republic by Hafiz Rashid, 1/14/26
Headline: “DHS Picks Fight With Reporter Who Exposed ICE’s Shoddy Hiring”
Subhead: “The Department of Homeland Security is pissed after Laura Jedeed revealed how she got a job offer from ICE in just six minutes.”
“The Department of Homeland Security attempted to discredit a journalist Wednesday and was quickly embarrassed.
“On Tuesday, Slate published a bombshell article by Laura Jedeed outlining how she had somehow slipped through ICE’s screening process to be offered a job by the agency despite failing to complete any of the required paperwork, including a background check. The next day, DHS tried to claim Jedeed’s article was ‘such a lazy lie.’. . .”
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https://newrepublic.com/post/205300/dhs-fight-reporter-exposed-ice-job-hiring
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Article in Democracy Now by Smy Goodman, 1/14/26
Headline: “Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check”
“ ‘They didn’t ask very many questions.’ Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test, and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown. . .”
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Article in AlterNet by Adam Lynch, 1/9/26
Headline: “Internet erupts after Trump’s ‘delusional’ press conference”
Subhead: “Critics across the internet tore into President Donald Trump’s impromptu meeting with reporters on Friday.”
“Trump took time out from a meeting to pressure oil executives to invest in the freshly decapitated nation of Venezuela. . .”
“When asked by a reporter If he would change his view on Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado running the country if she would give him her Nobel Peace Prize Trump answered: ‘Well, I’m going to have to speak to her. She might be involved in some aspect of it. I can’t think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel prize more than me’. . .”
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Article in Poynter by Louis Jacobson, 1/8/26
Headline: “A brief history of the media through political convention pins”
Subhead: “Collect ‘em and trade ‘em … and watch how they trace the evolution and decline of legacy media brands”
“. . .Recently, I realized that some of my souvenirs from those conventions accidentally tell a story about the media’s evolution over the past three decades.
“The souvenirs I’m referring to are pins, mostly the size of the average thumbnail. Despite their modest size, these trinkets tell a story of the media’s proximity to power, the ebb and flow of journalistic resources and the media pecking order. . .”
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Article in Poynter by Kelly McBride, 1/7/26
Headline: “How journalists should cover ICE’s fatal shooting of a civilian in Minneapolis”
Subhead: “Editors face high-stakes ethical decisions on video, transparency and protest coverage — and those choices will be closely scrutinized”
“Journalists have a critical role to play in covering a fatal use of force by any law enforcement officer. It’s the most basic form of holding power to account.
“That responsibility is especially urgent after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, an incident that was captured on multiple videos and has prompted sharply conflicting accounts from federal, state and local officials. . .””
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|https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2026/covering-ice-fatal-shooting-minneapolis-journalism-ethics/
Article in FAIR by Ari Paul, 1/6/26
Headline: “Editorial Boards Cheer Trump Doctrine in Venezuela”
Article shows stance of newspapers including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, and The Chicago Tribune toward the attack on Venezuela.
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https://fair.org/home/editorial-boards-cheer-trump-doctrine-in-venezuela/
Article in Daily Kos by Bidenmytime, 1/1/26
Headline: “While the Media focuses on Childcare Fraud in Minnesota…”
Here is what else is going on…
Of course they are looting the Kennedy Center. They are looting everything.
”Democrats on the committee said they obtained documents that suggest the national cultural centre is being operated as a ‘slush fund and private club for Trump’s friends and political allies’ . . .”
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Article in The Washington Post by Elahe Izadi on MSN, 1/1/26
Headline: “The ‘TrumpKennedyCenter.org’ website is taken. This comedian owns it.”
“The organization’s leaders might have wanted a new website to replace kennedy-center.org, too. But if they’d hoped for trumpkennedycenter.org, they were out of luck. A comedian bought it months ago.
“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with ‘South Park’ and ‘Mad TV’ credits who buys political domains and turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism. . . .”
Article in The Washington Post by Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson, and Azi Paybarag, 12/25/25
Headline: “Despite anti-media rhetoric, the government is still reading the news”
Subhead: “The Trump administration is spending tens of thousands of dollars on paywalled news sites, including Politico and Bloomberg, despite earlier criticism of media outlets.”
“Agencies across the Trump administration have taken out subscriptions in recent months to news organizations that officials had very publicly cut off this year, reversing an earlier decision to cancel them that Elon Musk, senior White House aides and President Donald Trump had declared was necessary to end what they called a scandal. . .”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/24/paywalled-news-sites-trump-administration/
Article in Raw Story by Alexander Willis, 12/23/25
Headline: ” ‘Would you like me to leave?’ Trump floats ditching White House for TV hosting gig”
“President Donald Trump floated the idea of ditching the Oval Office Tuesday to instead pursue a career as a television host, asking his followers whether they supported the idea of an abrupt career change.
“Whether serious or in jest, Trump made the remarks after announcing that he would be hosting the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony scheduled for Tuesday evening, which he said he’d be doing ‘at the request of the board, and just about everybody else in America.’ . . .”
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Article in Status by Natalie Korach, 12/17/25
Headline: “Weiss’ Wake-Up Call”
Subhead: “As her first major CBS News town hall draws underwhelming ratings, Bari Weiss gets a public crash course in the metrics of television success. Now, Status has learned she’s delayed a planned address to staffers about the network’s future.”
“In the days leading up to the holidays, Bari Weiss had planned to address CBS News staffers with a broader vision of where she sees the network heading under her new leadership. But by Tuesday, as early Nielsen numbers for her high-profile Erika Kirk town hall circulated—and headlines began using words like “flop”—those plans quietly changed. . .”
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https://www.status.news/p/bari-weiss-cbs-news-erika-kirk-town-hall-ratings