Journalism

When Trump backs primary challengers against Republicans who crossed him, every outlet calls it retribution. When Democrats do the identical thing, it's party discipline. The vocabulary asymmetry isn't subtle anymore.

For fifteen years I watched network news editors decide what counted as a story. The decision was almost never about the facts. The decision was about which narrative the facts fit.

When the news industry's standard reference guide changes terminology, it doesn't just change how stories are written. It changes how reality is perceived.

When the party that claims to defend the free press starts routing around it to reach voters through TikTok creators, the mask is fully off.

When Kennedy's vaccine agenda hits a wall, the press celebrates. When the same press covered COVID policy dissent, they demanded deference to experts. You can't have it both ways.

The story isn't whether Trump will strike Kharg Island. The story is why most of the press covering it couldn't tell you why Kharg Island matters.

Director David Borenstein turned his acceptance speech into a political rally. The audience applauded. Nobody asked whether any of it was true.

The press spent a week on a lobster story while the world burned. The real story isn't the lobster. It's what the lobster reveals about American journalism.

The Republican Party has a messaging problem, but the media won't tell you what it actually is. The real story is about who controls the narrative, and it's not Republicans.

When the people deciding what's true are funded by the people being checked, the system isn't journalism, it's reputation management.

Another quarter of declining viewership. At some point, a news network has to ask: are we serving the audience, or are we serving the narrative?

Lecce vs. Cremonese is trending in the United States. The American press corps is covering congressional hearings. One of these things reflects what actual people care about.

A publication that once covered foreign policy and defense now celebrates activist networks. The degradation of Washington journalism is now official.