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A.G.’s Media Diet

It’s been over seven years since I last wrote about which media I regularly consume. In that post, titled “Rachel Maddow: Journalist First,” I recounted how my wife constantly nudged me to consider “the other side” of the mediaverse. My default response: No thanks. I prefer actual journalism, not both-sides commentary or so-called news reports of […]

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White House Communications Team Encounters Turbulence

Did @PressSec’s Staff Seek Journalists’ Questions in Advance? I suppose it’s all relative. Compared to the horrific daily White House press briefings of the last four years — when there were any — the transparent and truthful approach of President Biden’s new Press Secretary Jen Psaki and her team is a breath of fresh air. Didn’t I read that

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Do Paid Media Walls Further Divide Our Nation?

Hardly a day passes without my seeing a tweet from or about Civil, a new enterprise that will use blockchain technology and the sale of tokens to revive and sustain the badly battered journalism profession. Reimagining the news with #blockchain-based architecture https://t.co/xx50xG4ntU — Civil (@Join_Civil) August 24, 2018 Today the purveyors of high quality news are not only

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