Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org / is on Nostr

Independent journalist and media critic. Formerly seen at WaPo, Intercept, Huffpo, etc. I afflict comfortable journalists.

Last Notes

2023-10-26 18:45:38

New from me: As Republicans embrace theocratic authoritarianism, the political media is tongue-tied https://presswatchers.org/2023/10/as-republicans-embrace-theocratic-authoritarianism-the-political-media-is-tongue-tied/

2023-04-24 20:18:48

RT @mehdirhasan
Dear media reporters: please don’t do with Tucker stories today what a lot of political reporters did with Trump stories in the past. Don’t call his statements ‘provocative’ etc. Call them racist. Call them bigoted. Call them what they *actually* were. Don’t sanitize them please.

2023-04-24 17:13:16

Traditional media refusing to use the word "fired" is a perfect example of how they just write down whatever Fox says. Still.

2023-04-23 20:19:55

There is a special place in hell for the child-labor lobby https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/23/child-labor-lobbying-fga/
https://cdn.masto.host/journahost/media_attachments/files/110/249/980/305/616/739/original/3449b7da3f40ad2c.jpeg

2023-04-06 20:55:20

RT @mehdirhasan
Me: "It's just error after error, Matt?"
@mtaibbi: "Well, that is an error."
Watch me confront Matt Taibbi with multiple, unacknowledged, and glaring mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting.
Full @MehdiHasanShow interview later tonight. Preview:
https://cdn.masto.host/journahost/media_attachments/files/110/153/860/345/342/405/original/b62f35b054ff896b.mp4

2023-03-28 20:38:49

Why is the wave of Russian immigration that gave the Israeli right wing a supermajority never even mentioned in stories like his one? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/world/middleeast/israel-protests-netanyahu.html

2023-03-17 14:05:06

RT @EricMGarcia
NEW from @Independent: Two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay at the time Ron DeSantis was stationed there claim he witnessed the forced-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners, ⁦@_RichardHall⁩ reports https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-guantanamo-torture-prisoner-b2300753.html