I really don’t like the guy, but David Brooks called Trump a ruthless mafioso last night. Maybe there’s some hope.
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Yes, although I’m frustrated that his most recent opinion piece is hand-wringing over calling Trump a “populist” when he was on the front lines of calling Trump a populist for years… Like, he insisted that Trump represents the “real working class” in America for quite a while now, and he wants to just… ignore that?
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The New York Times seems pretty interested in ignoring the fact that they are a big part of the problem across the board and Brooks fits right in. I did say “maybe”! It’s probably more likely that he will go right back to smoothing the way for the next fascist culture war ideologue if we manage to get through the current crisis.
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Yeah, no doubt… it’s also funny how he’s made an entire career out of attacking elites, and he himself IS an elite… both his parents were college professors, a category of people he loves to wag his finger at…
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Funny that he didn’t just go right into GOP politics?
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I think he sees himself as an objective observer of events in American history and culture, not an active participant.
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If he’s an objective observer and not a participant, he should be keeping his whack-ass opinions to himself instead of publishing them in one of the biggest newspapers in the world and appearing on television (except for calling Krasnov a mafioso, everyone should do that everywhere)
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Exactly! But, oh, how can we not let such a great and wise man have a big ass bully pulpit for his mediocre ideas!!!
Ugh… I also wish that Capehart were a bit bolder, too.
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Lol, as a great and wise man with mediocre ideas, I must concede that you make a valid argument.
I wish Capeheart let loose a bit, too. You can literally see him struggling to hold himself back on Newshour. I hope he frees himself from the Post and just says everything he’s thinking on his own platform someday.
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Almost 10 years into the Trump era and Teen Vogue is still embarrassing the NY Times and Wapo by doing actual journalism.
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The David Nyhan Prize for Public Policy Journalism goes to Michael Harriot, an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, poet, and public historian. Harriot has long stood at the forefront of incisive, unflinching journalism that unpacks the complexities of race, power, and policy in America. From his early reporting at Ebony to his work at The Root and The Guardian, and most recently as a columnist at TheGrio, Harriot has consistently illuminated the intersections of race and American democracy.
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Thank you for posting that link! I had read some of Harriot’s writings, and I’m glad to see him being noticed by people who care about journalism.
And it looks like there may be some hope for Kansas:
Rose Conlon of KMUW and the Kansas News Service, has been selected by the judging committee as the Emerging Talent prize’s inaugural recipient.
A Wichita-based public radio reporter, Conlon brings a fearless and deeply empathetic lens to some of the country’s most contested policy issues—particularly women’s health, reproductive rights, and rural health care access. Her reporting has shed critical light on the rising incidence of pregnancy-associated domestic violence in Kansas, and exposed dangerous gaps in nursing home oversight, holding both corporations and public decision-makers to account.
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AP News might not be allowed at the White House, but they’re not cowed:
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