Trump Justice Department secretly seized phone records of 4 reporters
President Joe Biden called the Justice Department practice of obtaining reporters’ records ‘simply, simply wrong.’
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021President Joe Biden called the Justice Department practice of obtaining reporters’ records ‘simply, simply wrong.’
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021‘We will not be intimidated or deterred in fulfilling our First Amendment right and responsibility to hold power to account in our reporting,’ USA Today Publisher Maribel Perez Wadsworth said.
By Associated Press - April 19, 2021Even credentialed reporters and news photographers are not immune from prosecution if they break a law on the job.
By Associated Press - April 19, 2021The Committee to Protect Journalists told reporters not to use equipment with cables, which could be used by pro-Trump mobs to hurt them.
By Amy Lieu - January 15, 2021The White House press secretary claims that the media isn’t reporting on violence against Trump supporters. She’s wrong.
By Donna Provencher - November 17, 2020The federal government argued that journalists must disperse when an illegal assembly is declared.
By Associated Press - July 24, 2020Trump has, in some cases, suggested his critics, political opponents, and media he doesn’t like be jailed or even executed for ‘treason.’
By Dan Desai Martin - June 23, 2020Trump seems to admire Putin’s approach to journalists he doesn’t like, which is cold-blooded murder.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 28, 2019A major news network is finally going to court over Trump’s war on the First Amendment — and the White House isn’t happy about it.
By Emily Crockett - November 13, 2018“The Democratic memo made the GOP memo look even stupider.”
By Tommy Christopher - February 25, 2018Rep. Trey Gowdy offered the latest absurd take on gun violence. CBS anchor Nancy Cordes wasn’t having it.
By Tommy Christopher - February 18, 2018Fox host Laura Ingraham’s demand that professional athletes stop criticizing Trump went badly for her.
By Oliver Willis - February 16, 2018Trump’s refusal to address Russian interference makes him look more like a defendant than a president.
By Caroline Orr - February 16, 2018When Republican politicians refused to have a conversation about gun violence, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper took the discussion to the high school students who just survived the shooting.
By Matthew Chapman - February 15, 2018“We put a man on the moon 50 years ago and we can’t figure out why only our children are running around in their schools killing each other.”
By Caroline Orr - February 15, 2018MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace has had enough of Republicans feigning concern about gun violence and doing nothing.
By Matthew Chapman - February 15, 2018Students in Florida who saw their school shot up on Wednesday are busy knocking down bogus Fox News spin.
By Eric Boehlert - February 15, 2018Republicans promised to address gun violence after the last massacre in America. But months later, they’ve still done nothing.
By Tommy Christopher - February 15, 2018Republicans are afraid to face the hard questions on gun violence.
By Eric Boehlert - February 15, 2018She is exactly, and heartbreakingly, right.
By Alison R. Parker - February 14, 2018Watch the MSNBC anchor destroy a ridiculous White House defense of Trump’s treatment of women.
By Tommy Christopher - February 12, 2018After taking down an absurd editorial bemoaning the diversity of Team USA, Fox News laughably claimed that the article penned by one of the network’s top executives “does not reflect the views or values of Fox News.”
By Caroline Orr - February 09, 2018Trump gets called out for once again riding to the side of abusers and ignoring their victims.
By Eric Boehlert - February 09, 2018Trump is defending Rob Porter, the man who resigned in disgrace amid credible allegations of his serial domestic violence.
By Oliver Willis - February 09, 2018Fox News attack on Sen. Mark Warner was so pathetic that even Sen. Marco Rubio spoke up against it.
By Matthew Chapman - February 08, 2018The Republican Party will have a Nazi on the ballot come November.
By Eric Boehlert - February 08, 2018Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who immigrated from India, treated a right-wing talk show host to a lesson on how family immigration actually works.
By Matthew Chapman - February 07, 2018If chief of staff John Kelly is so bothered by “laziness,” he might want to direct his attention away from hardworking Dreamers and toward his boss.
By Alison R. Parker - February 06, 2018For a memo that Republicans were so desperate to make public, House Speaker Paul Ryan suddenly seems notably reluctant to even discuss it.
By Eric Boehlert - February 06, 2018Trump’s attack on Democrats as “treasonous” is not a laughing matter. But the White House clearly doesn’t get that.
By Tommy Christopher - February 06, 2018