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PBS Touts Media 'Obligation' to Trash Trump in the Name of 'Democracy'

December 23rd, 2023 6:08 AM

It was a triple-liberal-team up against Donald Trump on Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour with an interview segment headlined online, “How media organizations are facing the task of covering Trump’s anti-democratic rhetoric.” (Ironically, the segment on the dangers Trump posed to democracy was introduced with news that Trump had been removed from the ballot in…

Lefty Professor Tells MSM How to Avoid Being Trump’s ‘Hate Objects’

January 26th, 2017 8:15 AM
NYU journalism prof Jay Rosen thinks that for the time being, mainstream media outlets should give inexperienced reporters -- interns -- what’s typically considered among the juiciest of plum assignments: White House correspondent. That, he argued in a Sunday piece on his site PressThink, would be a far more effective way of covering the current administration than we have now. Rosen wrote that…

Lefty Prof: Trump Rule Means ‘Winter Is Coming’ For Media

December 16th, 2016 6:05 PM
It’s definitely not morning in America for the media, believes NYU's Jay Rosen. The metaphor Rosen uses to illustrate the media’s plight during the first several months of Donald Trump’s administration isn’t a time of day but an entire, harsh season; he headlined his tweetstorm of last Sunday “Winter is coming: what it will be like for the press under Trump.” In September, Rosen alleged that…

Lefty Professor: Trump Trying to Put an End to ‘Honest Journalism’

September 30th, 2016 5:36 PM
Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at NYU, is one of America’s best-known left-wing media critics. Last weekend on his PressThink site, he delved into “the precepts and maxims I have used to understand press behavior during this long and startling campaign season.” Rosen’s main point is that even though Donald Trump “is not a normal candidate and can’t be covered like one,” generally the media…

NPR Reports On U.S. Liberal Bias -- Tilted to Theorist Who Laments Rep

January 8th, 2011 7:19 AM
On the morning before NPR announced its internal review of its leftist purge of Juan Williams for appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, media reporter David Folkenflik was "reporting" that the problem with the American news media is its painful lack of bias. Come again? "Mainstream news reporters don't tell you what they think enough of the time." That came from the star of the Folkenflik story,…

'My Job Is To Watch The White House Like A Hawk

January 1st, 2009 2:47 PM
Liberal journalism professor Jay Rosen was puzzled when Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin wondered aloud whether he and other journalists should be skeptical of Barack Obama. Conservative blogger Jon Henke was downright flabbergasted: I'm not sure I understand why this is even a question. Indeed, it would seem to me that it would be grounds for immediate dismissal. "Immediate dismissal"…

NYT's Seelye Celebrates Two New (Unlabeled) Lefty Journalism Projects

October 30th, 2007 2:54 PM