journal-isms
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Some Journalists Feel Trump Ban Personally
Mohammed Al-Rawi’s passion for computers carried him through the war in Iraq all the way to the shores of California,” Marjorie Miller wrote in 2010 for a Fourth of July story in the Los Angeles Times.“His fluency in Windows and in English landed him a job with journalists, put him in the path of multiple…
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Trump Team’s Lies Ignite Firestorm
After a weekend of unprecedented criticism of the newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump and his new press secretary Sean Spicer for their equally unprecedented string of falsehoods and hectoring of the news media, Spicer told reporters on Monday that the White House’s intention is never to lie. It was a conversation in which the…
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What Black Networks Missed by Not Showing the Inauguration
Black Entertainment Television and TV One, the major African American-oriented networks, provided a much-needed service on Election Day by providing a sympathetic outlet for their stunned viewers to process Donald Trump’s presidential victory. But on Inauguration Day, both took a pass. They blew it. “Our viewers are far more emotionally moved by the exit of…