David Folkenflik
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With 'Rightly,' Al-Jazeera Targets Conservative Audience In New Online Platform
Al Jazeera, the Qatar-financed media giant, launched a new online platform aimed at a conservative American audience. It's called "Rightly."
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Newsrooms Revisit Past Coverage As Editors Offer A Fresh Start
The Boston Globe will give people a chance to ask to revisit or remove past coverage of their actions that has since damaged their reputations. We look at how a similar effort played out in Cleveland.
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Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh, A Conservative Lodestar, Dies At 70
Limbaugh entertained millions, propelled waves of Republican politicians and rebuked the media establishment as liberal. He also trampled the boundaries of acceptable political discourse.
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Trump Official Cited Security To Kill Visas For VOA Staffers. Emails Say Otherwise
Under Trump, the agency over the Voice of America stopped granting requests for visa extensions for foreign journalists to reserve jobs for Americans. The agency had cited security concerns.
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Election Tech Company Sues Fox News, Giuliani And Others For $2.7 Billion
The suit names Fox stars Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, as well as Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
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Trumpism At Voice of America: Firings, Foosball And A Conspiracy Theory
Michael Pack's scandal-tarred tenure over Voice of America and it parent agency obscures the human toll of the ideological war he waged: executives fired, staff investigated, reputations shattered.
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Trump Ally At Voice of America Replaced By News Executive He Recently Demoted
The Biden White House has named Yolanda Lopez acting director of the Voice of America. She was demoted last week after a VOA reporter asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unwelcome questions.
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'Defend The Truth And Defeat The Lies': Biden Moves Past Trump's War On Media
President Biden called for Americans to listen to one another and to disagree on the basis of facts, obliquely invoking the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol as the cost of trafficking in lies.
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New Chief's Ties Shock Radio Free Asia, While Pompeo Visit to VOA Stirs Outcry
The demotion of a Voice of America White House reporter led to an outcry. And the new head of sister network Radio Free Asia had registered as a lobbyist for Taiwan just days before taking over.
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After Deadly Capitol Riot, Fox News Stays Silent On Stars' Incendiary Rhetoric
Many Fox News hosts, commentators and guests helped stoke the pro-Trump protests that became an assault on Congress. Among those influenced was Ashli Babbitt, who died while storming the Capitol.