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Photo: Getty On Monday, a woman identifying herself as a former writer for Facebook’s trending section took to Twitter to criticize the social media giant, saying the solution to the site’s current fake news problem is the editorial team it fired with “no grace, no notice, no care” earlier this year. “As a…
A planned meeting between president-elect Donald J. Trump and The New York Times appears to have fallen through, with Mr. Trump declaring on Twitter on Tuesday morning that he had canceled the gathering because the ground rules had been changed. A spokeswoman for The Times responded that the paper had not changed the arrangements for the meeting…
President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, has continued to criticize the media in the days since the election. Credit Photograph by Zach Gibson / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump—the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and deliberation after his Election Day…
storytext President-elect Donald Trump backed out of a meeting he had called with The New York Times on Tuesday. Trump had asked for the meeting with Times executives, and also agreed to meet on the record with reporters and columnists. He said on Twitter that the “terms and conditions” were changed at the last minute…
Annemarie Dooling, the director of programming for Vox Media’s Racked.com, is an online communities expert who has worked with Salon, AOL and The Huffington Post. She is on Twitter (@TravelingAnna). Updated November 22, 2016, 3:20 AM All discussion on the role that social platforms played in the election has centered on the type of content…
.entry-header About the nicest thing you can say about President Trump’s incoming administration is that it is without precedent. But there is another way of looking at it: it is not normal. Normal, you might argue, is a bad thing when people are hurting. In fact, there is enough polling about why people voted for…
Trump’s masterful manipulation. CREDIT: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster One of the guiding principles for the media in covering the President of the United States is that the things the president says and does are, by definition, newsworthy. This is why there is a White House press corps and a “protective pool” that follows the president around…
Like many populist leaders, Donald Trump skillfully exploited the media obsession for immediacy and page views. In French journalism, especially in radio and TV, we have an expression that says it all: “He (or she) is a bon client”. Literally, a good customer, an endless provider of soundbites and juicy quotes that will jump to the top…
The press must defend all norms, not just those that pertain to themselves. On Tuesday night, Donald Trump committed a huge no-no. This was nothing trivial like empowering white hate groups or waging public and legal vendettas against his enemies—he’s been doing those things all along. For the first time since winning the presidency last…
Perhaps I found myself in the viral content world because I made the careless mistake of taking an arts degree at university. For over half a decade afterwards, I was lucky enough to work as an actual journalist for a few quasi well-known publications. But after years of trying, I gave up pursuing work with…