He went over the heads of traditional news media and spoke directly to voters. Trump understood Twitter’s potential as no other presidential aspirant did.
Only days remain until the presidential election; Vine is pulling the plug; people couldn't figure out if a photo of Bill Murray imitating a crying baby was in fact Murray or Tom Hanks.
Are you headed out to cast a ballot? You should be. You can vote today through Oct. 21 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and many other times after that leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
"Once a rumor is out there, partisan wingnuts who infest the internet and social media push ugly, unproven suspicions until the news media have to report the phenomenon."
When news media report exit polls and final state tallies in the Eastern time zone, folks west of Indiana are still deciding whether to vote and for whom.
During the four days of the Republican National Convention, America’s increasingly intense fears and fault lines were brought into the sunlight shining on one square mile of downtown Cleveland.
St. Louis County prosecutors finally dropped phony charges against two reporters covering unrest two years ago in Ferguson, Mo. In exchange, the reporters promised not to sue the cops.
In some European communities, Christians sought to avoid or mitigate plague with processions of men whipping themselves bloody as they moaned through the narrow streets. Those unfailingly ineffective attempts to appease a loving God came to mind as I fol
President Obama and Fox’s Megyn Kelly could be a Saturday Night Live duo, satirizing Obama and Kelly. Their latest schtick is to blame the news media for the rise of Donald Trump. Seriously?
To quote columnist Robert Fisk in a different context, “If this wasn’t tragic, it would be farce.” The tragedy is the ease with which Republican presidential aspirants manipulate news cycles.
I have been intently listening to and reading the invisible ink between the lines of Trump’s utterances, and we have not given him nearly enough credit.