Media
Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot
The tale of Tala Halawa has an ever-mounting horror to it: each sentence is more disturbing than the last. First…
The school that made an American century
New York With the Karamazovian hangover now only a weekly occurrence, the healthy life rules supreme. Well, most of the…
Why would Biden grant the press access now?
Joe Biden had barely finished his acceptance speech on Saturday when journalists, tired and weary of four years of mean…
The American media is failing you
American journalism has lost its bearings, and we are all paying the price. For the past four years, egged on…
People trust the media less than Trump on COVID. Here’s why
The national media is now less trusted than President Trump to provide accurate information and analysis about COVID-19, according to…
Extra, extra — read all about us!
Instead of telling us about America, or even the world outside, American journalists now tell us about other American journalists. The…
The protests have not ended COVID-19
Remember when peaceful protesters of the economic lockdown were smeared for apparently putting lives at risk by utilizing their First…
Newsflash: Trump insults everyone
Want to know the worst kept secret in America? Every time President Trump and the White House Press Corps do…
We’re all guilty of recruiting this virus to our cause
There must be a quote from Shakespeare for this, but so far I haven’t found it. It’s the way we…
Questioning coronavirus origins is not a conspiracy
The exact origins of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, remain unknown. We know only that it began in the Wuhan province…
Why was early coronavirus coverage so lazy? The media’s insatiable thirst for political correctness
When the media views its entire mission through a lens of meting out social justice while presenting itself as the…
A hostile media helps Donald Trump
The news media of the late 1700s and early 1800s consisted almost entirely of partisan political operations. Ron Chernow, the biographer…
Trump uses provocative terms because he wants to provoke
We should be bored by now — perhaps we are. Certainly, the anger against Donald Trump’s tweets isn’t quite as…
Trump has driven the American media mad
New York An old-fashioned party is a gathering of friends invited by the host or hostess, who foots the bill.…
Melania Trump elegantly rises above the media muck
I am not sure that Melania Trump had the introduction of Henry IV Part 2 in mind when she sat…
Getting the sack was a shock but not a surprise
It was a shock but not really a surprise. I came back from holiday at the beginning of August to…
Fury and excitement – how the journalists at the New York Times have coped with Trump
Back when his country was controlled by the USSR, the Czech writer Milan Kundera pointed out that ‘Union of Soviet…
50 years after Bobby Kennedy’s murder, the ‘deep state’ still reigns supreme
New York This week 50 years ago saw the assassination of Robert Kennedy, a man I met a couple…
Bacteria
It’s like whipping cream. All of a sudden it goes stiff and you can turn the bowl upside down without…
Media culpa
A thread runs through several of the stories that have defined this turbulent summer: reporters have been shocked by the…
Why won’t the media call a cock a cock?
On the Radio 4 news at 11 o’clock last Saturday morning there was a joky report about roosters in Brisbane. The…
Too grand for the Queen Mother: my strange life at Country Life
The remarkable life and times of Country Life
Virtual reality news is coming - and the implications are ominous
John Humphrys staggering around in a piece of ‘virtual reality’ headgear that looked like binoculars and made him feel sick…
Hold on, should we actors really be speaking for trans people?
Should actors be speaking for trans people?
Chris Mullin’s diary: Murdoch’s men couldn’t face even a fictional Corbyn victory
With four days to go until the result of Labour’s leadership election, a call from the Sunday Times. Would I…
