Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
- NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger makes it sound like the only two options for political coverage are being morally deadened like he is, or being an advocate. But you can sound the alarm about Trump without becoming a partisan. He just doesn’t want to. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
- What’s another way to say that Trump “is showing striking disdain… for traditional legal and political guardrails around public service”? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
- Here's your lead: "Trump has essentially halted refugee admissions for people of color, but dozens of white South Africans, upset that they are no longer the ruling minority, were welcomed with open arms on Monday."
- Ha they changed it but it's still totally inadequate: "But Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa, an allegation government officials there say lacks any evidence."
- You cannot ethically publish a paragraph that says "Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa" without immediately contextualizing it as a damnable, racist lie from a delusional demagogue. And yet WaPo did just that here: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- You cannot ethically publish a paragraph that says "Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa" without immediately contextualizing it as a damnable, racist lie from a delusional demagogue. And yet WaPo did just that here: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- This may be the vilest editorial ever written by the Washington Post editorial board. Anyone associated with that board should hang their head in shame. The report in question was a crock. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- HuffPost grasps the significance:
- I was glad to see the NYT taking this seriously enough to write a story about it. But then I read it, and there's not one iota of pushback, or critical context, not even a "critics say". Pure stenography. Absolutely shameful for something this outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
- Patrick Healey, the guy behind the NYT's "but her emails" coverage and the Opinion section's inane, right-leaning citizen panels is now a "masthead editor" in charge of "standards and trust" for the NYT newsroom. This is not good. This does not build trust. www.nytco.com/press/patric...
- Patrick Healey, the guy behind the NYT's "but her emails" coverage and the Opinion section's inane, right-leaning citizen panels is now a "masthead editor" in charge of "standards and trust" for the NYT newsroom. This is not good. This does not build trust. www.nytco.com/press/patric...
