Boston Globe has a little “Dewey Defeats Truman” action
Here’s a photo of the classic jumping-the-gun press faux pas: And this was the Superbowl story in an early edition of the Boston Globe, distributed in parts of Florida:
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So, would the press have done this to any Republican president?
All answers are speculative, of course, but my answer is a resounding “yes.” Commenter Yancey Ward writes: One of the issues some on the Right keep bringing up here is paraphrased this way: “Trump should have better explained this EO, … Continue reading →
The press gets the vapors over Trump’s executive order on immigration
And when the press gets the vapors, so do its obedient readers. And yes, there are still plenty of those. Another thing that happens is that I’m sometimes moved to violate my Never On Sunday rule and write a Sunday … Continue reading →
The press and the president: fooling some of the people
It’s one of the most famous saying in American history (whether Lincoln said it, as reported, or not): You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool … Continue reading →
Spicer’s lament
In that long long first press conference of Spicer, most of the attention went to the crowd count question. But embedded in all the verbiage was a far more interesting sequence, almost a monologue by Spicer in which he does … Continue reading →
State Department: did they resign or were they pushed?*
Right now I don’t have several free hours to take on the task of trying to sort out the confusion in this story, as evidence by the first three headlines listed at Memeorandum: —From the WaPo: “The State Department’s entire … Continue reading →
An alternative way to look at “alternative facts”
There’s been a ton of chatter and mockery about Kelly Conway’s use of the phrase “alternative facts” to describe Trump press secretary Sean Spicer’s initial statements about attendance at the Trump inauguration. Here’s a piece at The Hill by Jennifer … Continue reading →
The War of the Words: Trump vs. the press, the press vs. Trump
It’s gotten so that I can hardly stand to look at the news. Now, the regular readers here know my opinion of Donald Trump. Let’s just say I’m no sycophant. I criticized him harshly before the nomination (a nomination I … Continue reading →
Inaugural speech: in the ear of the beholder
To me, Trump’s inaugural speech was congruent with his prior message, and mainly struck notes of populism and nationalism. What else would anyone expect? He hammered on the idea of government during his administration as listening to and being responsive … Continue reading →
Polls, the press, and Trump…continued
The steady drip-drip-drip of the “Trump is so unpopular” message goes on. I’ve already dealt with the issue at length recently, so I’ll not go into it in depth again right now. However, I’ll add that—unlike Donald Trump—I don’t think … Continue reading →
Trump and the press; Obama and the press
During Obama’s 2008 campaign and for the entire near-decade that’s passed since them, the press has almost-uniformly adored him and been his willing handmaiden and booster. With Donald Trump, it’s a bit more complicated. And that’s putting it mildly. At … Continue reading →
The MSM had better watch out, or Trump will be getting sympathy
Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a political moderate and who wondered whether I was starting to feel sympathy for Trump. “No, not at all!” I protested. “I’ve never felt any sympathy for him, and he … Continue reading →