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There used to be in president-press relations something called a gaffe. The gaffe doesn't exist any more because it's become the whole presidency. This method is surprisingly effective. It's worked
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First suggested by @GeorgeLakoff, the three-beat, "truth sandwich" method is a way of reporting on dubious claims, strategic deception and public lying WITHOUT giving undue publicity to a false or
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A thread about a metaphor that increasingly misleads. I refer to the image of "exposure" as a description of what the press does, should do, or isn't doing well enough.
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This is why Phillips and other scholars have tried to introduce a term to newsroom decision-making: amplification. The facts are out there, but be careful about which ones you amplify
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For the press, then, the problem is not how to bring to light the truth that the President is a wholly unreliable source of information, but how to operate around
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Here is how the Los Angeles Times put it on July 14: “We shouldn’t rise to his bait, but how can we not? If we ignore him, we normalize his
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It is believed by many people who follow me that tougher, more confrontational questions — and more determined follow-ups — are the answer to press briefings on the virus that
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Anyone who says he now soberly accepts the realiity of the pandemic. No. He switched claims. From we're doing a fantastic job, the virus is like 15 people to we're
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Hasn't happened yet, but political journalism in the US will have to rethink it's relationship to the Republican Party, as conspiracy thinking, attacks on the press, and, to use an
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One place to find professional culture is in newsroom "types," characters found again and again in workplaces. The curmudgeon, for example. Ill-tempered, suspicious of all schemes for improvement, impatient with
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When I started studying the American press as an institution (around 35 years ago) I did not assign much significance to a factor that would later feel huge and at
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