27 Curtis Houck, “Networks Spend Over 27 Minutes on Dubious BuzzFeed Trump Story,” mrcNewsBusters, January 19, 2019, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/01/19/networks-spend-over-27-minutes-dubious-buzzfeed-trump-story (March 16, 2019).
28 Chris Mills Rodrigo, “Special counsel issues rare statement disputing explosive Cohen report,” The Hill, Jan. 18, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426128-special-counsel-issues-rare-statement-disputing-buzzfeeds-cohen (March 28, 2019).
29 Phil McCausland, “Democratic Bill Lays Groundwork to Remove Trump from Office,” NBCNews.com, July 3, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democratic-bill-lays-groundwork-remove-trump-office-n779171 (March 16, 2019).
30 Brandy Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 8.
31 Ibid., xii, xiii, xiv.
32 Annie Karni, “Washington’s Growing Obsession: The 25th Amendment,” Politico, January 3, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/trump-25th-amendment-mental-health-322625 (March 16, 2019).
33 Jonathan Easley, “Reporter Asks Questions on Trump’s ‘Mental Fitness’ at WH Press Briefing,” The Hill, January 3, 2018, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367289-reporter-questions-trumps-mental-fitness-at-white-house-press (March 16, 2019).
34 U.S. Constitution, Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
35 Ralph Ginzburg, “1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Psychologically Unfit to Be President,” Fact, September–October, 1964, https://www.scribd.com/document/322479204/Fact-Magazine-Goldwater-1964 (March 16, 2019), 3, 4.
36 Ibid., 24.
37 APA’s Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry, 7.3.
38 Bobby Azarian, “The Psychology Behind Donald Trump’s Unwavering Support,” Psychology Today, September 13, 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201609/the-psychology-behind-donald-trumps-unwavering-support (March 16, 2019).
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid.
41 Will Rahn, “The Unbearable Smugness of the Press,” CBSNews.com, November 10, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016 (March 16, 2019).
42 Jeff Himmelman, Yours in Truth (New York: Random House, 2012).
43 Roger Yu, “Ben Bradlee, Legendary ‘Washington Post’ Editor, Dies,” USA Today, October 21, 2014, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/21/ben-bradlee-obituary/16640515/ (March 16, 2019).
44 Himmelman, Yours in Truth, 78.
45 Ibid., 82–83.
46 Ibid., 83
47 Ibid., 83.
48 Ibid., 83–84.
49 Ibid., 87.
50 Ibid.
4. THE REAL THREAT TO PRESS FREEDOM
1 Bob Salsberg, “Newspaper Calls for War of Words Against Trump Media Attacks,” Associated Press, August 10, 2018, https://apnews.com/1381b7918b8a40baa182a72ae618c3f1 (March 16, 2019).
2 Claire Atkinson, “Newspapers Across the Country Denounce Trump’s Media Attacks with Coordinated Editorials,” NBC News, August 16, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/newspapers-across-u-s-decry-trump-s-media-attacks-coordinated-n901211 (March 16, 2019).
3 Editorial Board, “Journalists Are Not the Enemy,” Boston Globe, August 15, 2016, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2018/08/15/editorial/Kt0NFFonrxqBI6NqqennvL/story.html (March 16, 2019).
4 Kalev Leetaru, “Measuring the Media’s Obsession with Trump,” RealClearPolitics, December 6, 2018, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/06/measuring_the_medias_obsession_with_trump_138848.html (March 16, 2019).
5 Ibid.
6 Thomas E. Patterson, “News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days,” Harvard Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, May 18, 2017, https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days (March 16, 2019).
7 Editorial Board, “Journalists Are Not the Enemy,” Boston Globe, August 15, 2016.
8 Jenn Topper and Amelia Nitz, “New Report Shows American Voters Overwhelmingly Support Press Freedom but Are Missing Signs It’s Under Threat,” Committee for Freedom of the Press, September 5, 2018, https://www.rcfp.org/new-report-shows-american-voters-overwhelmingly-support-press-freedo/ (March 16, 2019).
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Editorial Board, “Journalists Are Not the Enemy,” The Boston Globe, August 15, 2016.
12 Richard Buel, Jr., “Freedom of the Press in Revolutionary America: The Evolution of Libertarianism, 1760–1820,” in The Press & the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench, eds. (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1980), 61.
13 Sedition Act, July 14, 1798, http://www.constitution.org/rf/sedition_1798.htm (March 16, 2019).
14 Buel, “Freedom of the Press in Revolutionary America,” 61.
15 Ronald G. Shafer, “The Thin-Skinned President Who Made It Illegal to Criticize His Office,” Washington Post, September 8, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/09/08/the-thin-skinned-president-who-made-it-illegal-to-criticize-his-office/?utm_term=.ef3e3de112ea (March 16, 2019).
16 Buel, “Freedom of the Press in Revolutionary America,” 89.
17 Ibid., 95.
18 Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), 335–36.
19 Ibid., 336–37.
20 David T. Z. Mindich, “Lincoln’s Surveillance State,” New York Times, July 5, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/06/opinion/lincolns-surveillance-state.html?_r=0 (March 16, 2019).
21 Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press, 489–90.
22 Abraham Lincoln, “Executive Order—Arrest and Imprisonment of Irresponsible Newspaper Reporters and Editors,” May 18, 1864, available online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70018 (March 16, 2019).
23 Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press, 492, 495.
24 Sedition Act of 1918, Encyclopedia.com, https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/legal-and-political-magazines/sedition-act-1918 (March 16, 2019).
25 “U.S. Congress passes Sedition Act, May 16, 2018,” History.com, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-sedition-act (March 16, 2019).
26 Christopher B. Daly, “How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism,” The Conversation, April 27, 2017, https://theconversation.com/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-76270?xid=PS_smithsonian (March 16, 2019).
27 Gale Group, “Civil Liberties, World War I,” Encyclopedia.com, https://www.encyclopedia.com/defense/energy-government-and-defense-magazines/civil-liberties-world-war-i (March 16, 2019).
28 Daly, “How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism.”
29 Gil Troy, “America’s First Minister of Propaganda,” Daily Beast, March 27, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/americas-first-minister-of-propaganda (March 16, 2019).
30 David Beito, “FDR’s War Against the Press,” Reason, April 5, 2017, https://reason.com/archives/2017/04/05/roosevelts-war-against-the-pre/print (March 17, 2019).
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 David Beito, “The New Deal Witch Hunt,” National Review, July 30, 2013, https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/07/new-deal-witch-hunt-david-t-beito/ (March 17, 2019).
36 Ibid.
37 Graham J. White, FDR and the Press (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 17.
38 James E. Pollard, The Presidents and the Press (New York: Macmillan, 1947), 797.
39 Ibid., 798.
40 Ibid., 839.
41 Ibid., 840.
42 Leonard Downie Jr., “In Obama’s War on Leaks, Reporters Fight Back,” Washington Post, October 4, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamas-war-on-leaks-reporters-fight-back/2013/10/04/70231e1c-2aeb-11e3-b1
39-029811dbb57f_print.html (March 17, 2019).
43 Oliver Knox, “Obama Administration Spied on Fox News Reporter James Rosen,” Yahoo.com, May 20, 2013, https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/obama-admin-spied-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-134204299.html (March 17, 2019).
44 Joanna Walters, “James Risen Calls Obama ‘Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom in a Generation,” Guardian, August 17, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/james-risen-obama-greatest-enemy-press-freedom-generation (March 17, 2019).
45 Calvin Woodward and Christopher Rugaber, “AP Fact Check: Obama Doesn’t Always Tell the Straight Story,” Associated Press, September 12, 2018, https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/09/12/ap-fact-check-obama-doesnt-always-tell-the-straight-story (March 17, 2019).
46 “Gov’t Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe,” Associated Press, May 13, 2013, https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2013/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-in-probe (March 17, 2019).
47 Matt Margolis, “The Top Five Ways Obama Attacked the Free Press,” PJ Media, September 11, 2018, https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-top-five-ways-obama-attacked-the-free-press (March 17, 2019).
48 Jack Shafer, “Spare Me Your Hypocritical Journalism Lecture, Mr. President,” Politico, March 29, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/obama-hypocritical-journalism-lecture-213775 (March 17, 2019).
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid.
5. NEWS, PROPAGANDA, AND PSEUDO-EVENTS
1 Edward Bernays, Propaganda (New York: IG, 1928), back cover.
2 Christopher B. Daly, “How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism,” Smithsonian, April 28, 2017, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-180963082/ (March 17, 2019).
3 Bernays, Propaganda, 27–28.
4 Ibid., 50–51.
5 Ibid., 51–52.
6 Ibid. 52.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., 55.
9 Ibid., 57.
10 David Samuels, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru: How Ben Rhodes Rewrote the Rules of Diplomacy for the Digital Age,” New York Times, May 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html (March 17, 2019).
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, January 2, 2019, video and transcript available at https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/02/chuck_todd_im_not_going_to_give_time_to_climate_deniers.html (March 17, 2019).
18 Joe Weisenthal, “The 10 Most Respected Global Warming Skeptics,” Business Insider, July 30, 2009, https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ten-most-important-climate-change-skeptics-2009-7 (March 17, 2019).
19 “Estimated 40 Percent of Scientists Doubt Manmade Global Warming,” National Association of Scholars, Press Release, January 3, 2011, https://www.nas.org/articles/Estimated_40_Percent_of_Scientists_Doubt_Manmade_Global_Warminghttps://www.nas.org/articles/Estimated_40_Percent_of_Scientists_Doubt_Manmade_Global_Warming (March 17, 2019).
20 Ibid.
21 Patrick Michaels, “Global Warming Scientists Scrap Real Science, Bow Before President Obama Instead,” Forbes, March 27, 2014, https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2014/03/27/global-warming-scientists-scrap-real-science-bow-before-president-obama-instead/#59cf119f6d0e (March 17, 2019).
22 Richard Lindzen, biography, Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/people/richard-lindzen (March 17, 2019).
23 Maria Tadeo, “Greenpeace Co-founder Patrick Moore Tells U.S. Senate There Is ‘No Proof’ Humans Cause Climate Change,” Independent, February 28, 2014, https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/greenpeace-co-founder-patrick-moore-tells-us-senate-there-is-no-proof-humans-cause-climate-change-9159627.html (March 17, 2019).
24 Roy Spencer, biography, drroyspencer.com, http://www.drroyspencer.com/about (March 17, 2019).
25 Warner Todd Huston, “Dr. Roy Spencer: Science Knows ‘Almost Nothing’ About Global Warming,” Breitbart, July 10, 2014, https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2014/07/10/dr-roy-spencer-science-knows-almost-nothing-about-global-warming/ (March 17, 2019).
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, January 2, 2019, video and transcript available at https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/02/chuck_todd_im_not_going_to_give_time_to_climate_deniers.html (March 17, 2019).
29 H. Sterling Burnett, “Time to Clear Out the Obama Holdovers and the Climate Propaganda They Spread,” Heartland Institute, December 28, 2018, https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/time-to-clear-out-the-obama-holdovers-and-the-climate-propaganda-they-spread (March 17, 2019).
30 Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (New York: Vintage Books, 1961), 8–9.
31 Ibid., 14.
32 Ibid., 33–34.
33 Letter from Attorney General William Barr to House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary, March 24, 2019, http://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/AG%20March%2024%202019%20Letter%20to%20House%20and%20Senate%20Judiciary%20Committees.pdf (March 29, 2019).
34 Rich Noyes, “Fizzle: Nets Gave Whopping 2,284 minutes to Russia Probe,” NewsBusters, March 25, 2019, http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/03/24/fizzle-nets-gave-whopping-2284-minutes-russia-probe (March 29, 2019).
35 Michael Calderone, “Pulitzer Prizes honor reporting on Trump-Russia, sexual misconduct scandals,” Politico, April 16, 2018, http://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/16/2018-pulitzer-prize-winners-526854 (March 29, 2019).
36 Amy Chozick, “After Mueller Report, News Media Leaders Defend Their Work,” New York Times, March 25, 2019, http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/business/media/mueller-report-media.html (March 29, 2019).
37 Joshua Caplan, “Jeff Zucker: No Regrets on CNN’s Russia Hoax Coverage, ‘We are not investigators’,” Breitbart, March 26, 2019, https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/26/jeff-zucker-no-regrets-on-cnns-russia-hoax-coverage (March 29, 2019).
38 Chozick, “After Mueller Report, News Media Leaders Defend Their Work.”
39 Ken Meyer, “ABC’s Jon Karl Defends Media Coverage of Mueller Probe: ‘How could reporters not cover that?’ ” Mediaite, March 25, 2019, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abcs-jon-karl-defends-media-coverage-of-trump-russia-probe-how-could-reporters-not-cover-that/ (March 29, 2019).
40 Carlos Garcia, “Brit Hume says collusion story is the ‘worst journalistic debacle’ of his lifetime in scathing commentary,” The Blaze, March 25, 2019, http://www.theblaze.com/news/brit-hume-slams-media-on-collusion (March 29, 2019).
41 Boorstin, The Image, 33–34.
42 Anonymous, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration—I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart part of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” New York Times, September 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html?module=inline (March 17, 2019).
43 Ibid.
44 Boorstin, The Image, 35.
45 Washington Times staff, “Trump v. CNN’s Jim Acosta: The Full Exchange,” Washington Times, November 7, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/7/trump-vs-cnns-jim-acosta (March 17, 2019).
46 Katie Pavlich, “Mexican Citizens: Trump Is Right, This Caravan Is Absolutely an Invasion,” Townhall.com, November 19, 2018, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/11/19/mexican-citizens-this-caravan-is-absolutely-an-invasion-n2536171 (March 17, 2019).
47 Ami Horowitz, “The Truth Behind the Caravan,” Daily Wire, video report available on YouTube, November 12, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quz5A87Oqgc (March 17, 2019).
48 Curtis Houck, “Adorable: Fake News Jim to Publish Book to Make Us Feel Bad for Him,” MRCNewsbusters, January 24, 2019, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/201
9/01/24/adorable-fake-news-jim-publish-book-make-us-feel-bad-him (March 17, 2019).
49 Ibid.
50 Boorstin, The Image, 35.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid., 6.
53 Ibid., 29.
6. THE NEW YORK TIMES BETRAYS MILLIONS
1 Deborah E. Lipstadt, Beyond Belief: The American Press & the Coming of the Holocaust 1933–1945 (New York: Free Press, 1986), 10.
2 David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews (New York: New Press, 1984), 321.
3 Ibid., 62.
4 Andrew Buncombe, “Allied Forces Knew About Holocaust Two Years Before Discovery of Concentration Camps,” Independent, April 18, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/holocaust-allied-forces-knew-before-concentration-camp-discovery-us-uk-soviets-secret-documents-a7688036.html (March 17, 2019).
5 Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews, 62.
6 Ibid., 321.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., 321–22.
9 Lipstadt, Beyond Belief, 244–45.
10 Ibid., 245–46.
11 Ibid., 252.
12 Ibid., 251.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid., 245–46.
16 Laurel Leff, Buried by the Times (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), back cover.
17 Ibid., 5.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., 6–7.
20 Ibid., 13.
21 Ibid., 13–14.
22 Ibid., 14.
23 Ibid., 15–16.
24 Ibid., 237.
25 Ibid.
26 Max Frankel, “150th Anniversary: 1851-2001; Turning Away from the Holocaust,” New York Times, November 14, 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/news/150th-anniversary-1851-2001-turning-away-from-the-holocaust.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=5EF060B0F36492EA97FC390DED59E112&gwt=pay (March 17, 2019).
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Neil A. Lewis, “Israel in The New York Times Over the Decades: A Changed Narrative and Its Impact on Jewish Readers,” Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University, Spring 2011, https://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/d69_lewis.pdf (March 17, 2019).
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