If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. They can no longer stoke fear and outrage in average voters. They can no longer prop up terrible candidates. And, like him or not, President-elect Donald Trump’s success with black, Hispanic, and Jewish voters, if exit polls […]
Democrats and media pundits have linked former President Trump’s rhetoric to the second assassination attempt against him in the last few months and have called on Trump to lower the temperature. “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party,” Rep. Mickie Sherrill, D-N.J., told CNN’s […]
The news media are going full Philip Bump. They should never go full Philip Bump. He, of course, is the journalist at The Washington Post who recently expressed his desire to remain ignorant of any information that could alter his view of the world. As a guest on Noam Dworman’s “Comedy Cellar” podcast, he repeatedly […]
