Media Criticism

ABC settled with Virginia Giuffre for $15 million and nobody asks who else was named. CBS runs one source on a two-year-old story. The silence from the networks that spent four years chasing Trump-Russia is deafening.

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.

Sony just killed Spider-Man. The real story isn't the loss of a franchise, it's what the decision reveals about who actually runs Hollywood now.

Sabrina Carpenter's rise to cultural dominance has triggered the predictable left-wing demand that she perform ideological loyalty. She hasn't. Good.

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.

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.