Sophia Tesfaye
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Eric Schmitt's failed Jack Smith gotcha exposes GOP propaganda (opens the original)
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Republicans are often very good at converting an event into a scandal, even when there is none to be found. They keenly understand the basic mechanics of a contemporary political media that rewards conflict. The modern conservative machine often operates in unison to manufacture a reality-TV confrontation designed to thrill the GOP base. First, a Republican makes a dramatic accusation. Then, conservative influencers and right-wing media outlets duly amplify the charge until it becomes a viral “g
Fox News tries to cool conservative anger over AI (opens the original)
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Fox News is confronting an awkward problem of its own making. Conservative media has spent years teaching its audience to distrust the institutions building artificial intelligence, but now those same institutions are working with Donald Trump and Republicans nationwide to secure billions of dollars in public infrastructure, regulatory favors and political protection to build the physical machinery that makes AI possible. So the network is now trying to discipline a conservative backlash it help
Fox News could suffer the most under Trump's press crackdown (opens the original)
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There is a striking development buried inside the administration’s escalating confrontation with the press that’s turned a familiar Donald Trump-versus-the-media fight into a potentially consequential rupture inside the right-wing media ecosystem. By banning CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO, the president tried to extract a cost for challenging coverage. The move backfired. Instead, it united competitors behind a press-freedom principle, prompting Fox News — the biggest booster of Trump’s political asce
Trump TV is the end of an era for the "king of ratings" (opens the original)
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We’ve been afflicted with the Donald Trump show for far too long. For more than a decade, American public life has been suffocated by a relentless, 24/7 reality television nightmare centered on his insatiable ego. The entire political existence of the self-described “king of ratings” has depended on a toxic, symbiotic relationship with the press that consists of bombastic press conferences and constant visual dominance designed to suck all the air out of the room. But when a clown’s only trick i
Don Jr. had a big wedding. Reporters started following the money - Salon.com (opens the original)
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This may have been the week that the Trump family’s sprawling and brazen corruption finally broke out of containment, with the level of American kleptocracy in such sharp focus this week that Republicans’ efforts to not-see it required significant effort. All this kicked off on Monday with two stories that landed within hours of each other, one in The New Yorker and another from ProPublica. Together they did something the last decade of scattered scoops about the Trump family’s business dealings
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