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Topic: Media Criticism

News and criticism about the media, including commentary and archival coverage from Salon, the original online source for news and politics.

Jeff Bezos

What's behind the big media divide?

Clayton Weimers
George W. Bush; Donald Trump

Trump gets the George W. Bush treatment

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump; George Stephanopoulos

ABC News sets a bad precedent for media

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Joe Rogan; Donald Trump

Facing America's new self-evident truths

Chauncey DeVega
Image for The press obeys in advance

The press obeys him in advance

Brian Karem
Donald Trump; Jeff Bezos; Stya Nadella

Billionaires have broken our media

Dan Froomkin
Glenn Youngkin

Laundering lies, manipulating the media

Austin Sarat
Donald Trump

Trump’s lie-industrial complex

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump; Trump Tower

Press fail: Now it is all normalized

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Ronald Reagan

Reagan's words haunt when disaster hits

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump

Trump's incoherence is too much to hide

Heather Digby Parton
Man arrested at Trump rally press attack

Media silent on MAGA attack on the press

Sabrina Haake
Image for The media's double standard comes for Kamala Harris — and misses

Harris takes on media's double standard

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump

Whiplash: Trump's been thrown for a loop

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump

"The Fourth Estate is failing America"

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump

A return to facts over “fake” news

Brian Karem
Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels tests a post-#MeToo press

Amanda Marcotte
Joe Biden

It’s all the media’s fault

Brian Karem
Julian Assange and Donald Trump

There’s a reason the media stinks

Brian Karem
Joe Biden

Follow Biden's lead, ignore the pundits

Brad Bauman
Joe Biden and Donald Trump

The stakes have never been higher

Brian Karem
Republican Presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally

"Backlash" is no reason to let Trump run

Amanda Marcotte
Henry Kissinger

Kissinger was the definition of impunity

Norman Solomon
Donald Trump

Trump actually needs more exposure

Heather Digby Parton

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