A sizable majority of U.S. adults use Facebook and most of its users get news on the site. But a new Pew Research Center survey finds that notable shares of Facebook users ages 18 and older lack a clear understanding of how the site’s news feed operates, feel ordinary users […] Read more »
Chuck Todd is right about how the media were sabotaged. But the problem has grown bigger.
First and foremost: Chuck Todd isn’t wrong. The NBC News stalwart’s column in the Atlantic ably assesses the state of American media and, more specifically, the long-term effort by political conservatives to breed distrust in objective journalism. He isn’t wrong that this is not new to President Trump, and he […] Read more »
It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back
I’ve devoted much of my professional life to the study of political campaigns, not as a historian or an academic but as a reporter and an analyst. I thought I’d seen it all, from the bizarre upset that handed a professional wrestler the governorship of Minnesota to the California recall […] Read more »
How big is the GOP’s Trump-can-shoot-a-guy-on-Fifth-Avenue caucus?
Matthew Miller’s reaction to the new Washington Post-ABC News poll Friday caught my eye. The poll showed just 18 percent of Americans believed President Trump should pardon Paul Manafort. “This is the ‘shoot someone on 5th Avenue’ caucus, and it’s much lower than Trump would have you believe,” the former […] Read more »
‘Totally dishonest’: Trump asserts only he can be trusted over opponents and ‘fake news’
Over roughly the past day, President Trump has decried the “totally dishonest” media, with its “fake news” and “fake books.” He has argued that Google is biased against conservatives. And he has accused NBC News of “fudging” the tape of an interview with him that has been available online for […] Read more »
Two Years Later, the Elites Are Still Disconnected From Voters
This is a column about listening. It’s about the millions of people in this country who feel that no one cares what they think or values what they do. People who believe that their voice isn’t being heard, especially by the elites in this country, whether in politics, the media, […] Read more »