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Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote
The media did better work covering Trump than in 2016, but did that reporting have any impact on the real world?On this week’s Kicker, Kyle Pope, edi…
6 years ago
Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy
Trump told us, ahead of time, he would claim victory in the election regardless of how America voted. On this week's Kicker, Masha Gessen, a New York…
6 years ago
David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue
In 2016, Donald Trump told rally attendees that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters. Since then, disqualifying pieces of inv…
6 years ago
Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous
Jon Allsop and Pete Vernon have written the CJR newsletter, “The Media Today,” since its inception in the wake of the 2016 election. On this week’s K…
6 years ago
E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge
Most sexual assault coverage in America is told from the attacker’s perspective. Survivors’ physical appearance is described in detail, and the actua…
6 years ago
Physicians on the air
The president has COVID-19, but the White House has failed to provide reliable information about his condition. To fill the gap, journalists have tur…
6 years, 1 month ago
COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the propaganda
As a result of an aggressive disinformation campaign, about half of Republicans believe voter fraud is a major problem. Now that Trump has tested pos…
6 years, 1 month ago
What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?
How did Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg view the press? And how far did the mythology we built around the “Great Dissenter” stray from real…
6 years, 1 month ago
“Eugenics” in Georgia
The forcible sterilizations of female detainees at an immigration detention center in Georgia comprise a new level of cruelty. But ICE health care sy…
6 years, 1 month ago
We were all raised here: Rochester, Daniel Prude, and a terrible breach of trust
Editor Sheila Rayam and reporter Georgie Silvarole both grew up in Rochester, New York. So did the city’s former Police Chief La'Ron Singletary and M…
6 years, 2 months ago