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32 Frankel, “150th Anniversary: 1851-2001.”
33 Ed Koch, “The New York Times’ Anti-Israel Bias,” RealClearPolitics, June 1, 2006, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/the_new_york_times_antiisrael.html (March 17, 2019).
34 Matti Friedman, “What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel,” Atlantic, November 30, 3014, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262 (March 17, 2019).
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 Ambassador David Friedman, “Liberal Media Sides with Hamas over Trump,” Fox News, May 20, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/us-ambassador-to-israel-david-friedman-liberal-media-sides-with-hamas-over-trump (March 17, 2019).
39 Ibid.
40 Vivan Yee and Hwaida Saad, “Christmas in Lebanon: ‘Jesus Isn’t Only for the Christians,’ ” New York Times, December 24, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/middleeast/christmas-lebanon.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesworld (March 17, 2019).
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid.
43 “Hezbollah,” Counter Extremism Project, https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/Hezbollah (March 17, 2019).
44 Gilead Ini, “The ‘Times’ and Israel: A Review of 2018,” Commentary magazine, Feb. 2019, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-times-and-israel-a-review-of-2018/, April 5, 2019.
45 Bruce Bartlett, “The Shame of the Times,” Human Events, July 5, 2006, http://humanevents.com/2006/07/05/the-shame-of-the-times (March 17, 2019).
46 Ibid.
47 S. J. Taylor, Stalin’s Apologist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 205.
48 Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 308–9.
49 Walter Duranty, “Russians Hungry, but Not Starving,” New York Times, March 31, 1933.
50 Ibid.
51 Walter Duranty, “Big Ukraine Crop Taxes Harvesters,” New York Times, September 18, 1933.
52 Lubomyr Luciuk, “It’s Time Journalism’s ‘Greatest Liar’ Lost His Prize,” Montreal Gazette, May 1, 2003, http://www.ukemonde.com/news/duranty.html (March 17, 2019).
53 Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow, 320.
54 Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Prize Winning Lies,” Weekly Standard, June 12, 2003, https://www.weeklystandard.com/arnold-beichman/pulitzer-winning-lies (March 17, 2019).
55 Douglas McCollam, “Should This Pulitzer Be Pulled,” Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2003, http://www.uncg.edu/~jwjones/russia/378readings/durantypulitzer.html (March 17, 2019).
56 Ibid.
57 Jacques Steinberg, “Times Should Lose Pulitzer from 30s, Consultant Says,” New York Times, October 23, 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/us/times-should-lose-pulitzer-from-30-s-consultant-says.html (March 17, 2019).
58 Ibid.
59 James William Crowl, Angels in Stalin’s Paradise (New York: University Press of America, 1982), 140–41.
60 Helen Roche, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York: Basic Books, 2010), 56.
7. THE TRUTH ABOUT COLLUSION, ABUSE OF POWER, AND CHARACTER
1 Olivia Gazis, “Richard Burr on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia Investigation, 2 Years On,” CBS News, February 7, 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-burr-on-senate-intelligence-committees-russia-investigation-2-years-on/ (March 17, 2019).
2 Ken Dilanian, “Senate Has Uncovered No Direct Evidence of Conspiracy Between Trump Campaign and Russia,” NBC News, February 12, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536 (March 17, 2019).
3 Sean Davis, “Obama’s Campaign Paid $972,000 to Law Firm That Secretly Paid Fusion GPS in 2016,” Federalist, October 29, 2017, http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/29/obamas-campaign-gave-972000-law-firm-funneled-money-fusion-gps/ (March 17, 2019).
4 John Solomon, “How the Clinton Machine Flooded the FBI with Trump-Russia Dirt . . . until Agents Bit,” The Hill, January 22, 2019, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/426464-how-the-clinton-machine-flooded-the-fbi-with-trump-russia-dirt-until (March 17, 2019).
5 John Solomon, “FISA Shocker: DOJ Officials Warned Steele Dossier Was Connected to Clinton, Might Be Biased,” The Hill, January 16, 2019, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/425739-fisa-shocker-doj-official-warned-steele-dossier-was-connected-to-clinton (March 17, 2019).
6 William Cummings, “Reporter Who Broke Steele Dossier Story Says ex-British Agents’ Claims ‘Likely False,’ ” USA Today, December 18, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/18/steele-dossier-michael-isikoff/2347833002 (March 17, 2019).
7 John Solomon, “The Mueller Probe’s Troubling Reliance on Journalists as Sources,” The Hill, September 5, 2018, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/405242-the-mueller-probes-troubling-reliance-on-journalists-as-sources (March 17, 2019).
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Kelly Cohen, “Former Top FBI Lawyer James Baker Under Criminal Investigation for Media Leaks,” Washington Examiner, January 15, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-top-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-under-criminal-investigation-for-media-leaks (March 17, 2019).
15 Eric Scheiner, “Unfactual: AP Walks Back Several Trump-Russia Stories,” Media Research Center, July 2, 2017, https://www.mrctv.org/blog/unfactual-ap-walks-back-several-trump-russia-stories (March 17, 2019).
16 Mollie Hemingway, “18 Questions CNN Needs to Answer After Getting Busted for Fake News,” Federalist, December 8, 2017, http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/08/18-questions-cnn-needs-to-answer-after-getting-busted-for-fake-news/ (March 17, 2019).
17 Rowan Scarborough, “FBI-Debunked Russia-Trump Story Helped New York Times win Journalism Award,” Washington Times, March 1, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/1/fbi-debunked-russia-trump-story-helped-new-york-ti (March 17, 2019).
18 Mollie Hemmingway, “Tips for Reading Washington Post Stories About Trump Based on Anonymous Leaks,” Federalist, May 16, 2017, https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/16/tips-for-reading-washington-post-stories-about-trump-based-on-anonymous-leaks/ (March 17, 2019).
19 Rowan Scarborough, “Robert Muller’s Warning: ‘Many’ News Stories on Trump Russia Probe Are Wrong,” Washington Times, April 16, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/16/robert-mueller-many-news-stories-trump-russia-prob/ (March 17, 2019).
20 Chuck Ross, “NPR Falsely Accuses Don Jr. of Lying in Senate Testimony,” Daily Caller, November 30, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/30/npr-false-donald-trump-jr/ (March 17, 2019).
21 60 Minutes, “Andrew McCabe: The Full 60 Minutes Interview,” February 17, 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mccabe-interview-former-acting-fbi-director-president-trump-investigation-james-comey-during-russia-investigation-60-minutes/ (March 17, 2019).
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin Calls Andrew McCabe ‘Patriotic,’ ‘Not Treasonous’ for Handling of President Trump,” Fox News, February 18, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnns-jeffrey-toobin-calls-andrew-mccabe-patriotic-not-treasonous-for-handling-of-president-trump (March 17, 2019).
25 Ben Brantley, “Review: Young Rebels Changing History and Theater,” New York Times, August 6, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/theater/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html (March 17, 2019).
26 Ibid.
27 Lance Benning, “Republican Ideology and the French Revolution: A Question of Liberticide at Home, in Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct, C. Vann Woodward, ed., (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974), 11.
28 Ibid., 11–12.
29 Peter Robinson, “Ted Kennedy’s Soviet Gambit,” Forbes, August 28, 2009, https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnists-peter-rob
inson.html#3bb23c0f359a (March 17, 2019).
30 Paul Kengor, “The Kremlin’s Dupe: Ted Kennedy’s Russia Romance,” American Spectator, April 12, 2018, https://spectator.org/the-kremlins-dupe-ted-kennedys-russia-romance/ (March 17, 2019).
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Robinson, “Ted Kennedy’s Soviet Gambit.”
35 Paul Kengor, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (New York: Harper Perennial, 2006), 205–6.
36 Kengor, “The Kremlin’s Dupe.”
37 Logan Act defined at https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Logan+Act (March 17, 2019)
38 Byron York, “When a Foreign Adversary Meddled in a Presidential Election,” Washington Examiner, September 9, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-when-a-foreign-adversary-meddled-in-a-presidential-election (March 17, 2019).
39 William C. Rempel, Henry Weinstein, and Alan C. Miller, “Testimony Links Top China Official, Funds for Clinton,” Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1999, http://articles.latimes.com/1999/apr/04/news/mn-24189 (March 17, 2019).
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid.
43 York, “When a Foreign Adversary Meddled in a Presidential Election.”
44 Rempel, Weinstein, and Miller, “Testimony Links Top China Official, Funds for Clinton.”
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 York, “When a Foreign Adversary Meddled in a Presidential Election.”
48 Associated Press, “Pelosi Shrugs Off Bush’s Criticism, Meets Assad,” NBC News, April 4, 2007, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17920536/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/pelosi-shrugs-bushs-criticism-meets-assad/#.XFhF_PZFxcY (March 17, 2019).
49 Ibid.
50 Tom Rogan, “Why Pelosi’s Syria Visit Remains Indefensible,” National Review, March 16, 2015, https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/03/why-pelosis-syria-visit-remains-indefensible-tom-rogan (March 17, 2019).
51 Sara Fritz, “President and Wright Clash on Nicaragua: Speaker’s Meetings with Ortega, Obando Draw Reagan’s Ire,” Los Angeles Times, November 17, 1987, http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-17/news/mn-21965_1_daniel-ortega (March 17, 2019).
52 Ibid.
53 Ibid.
54 Philip Rotner, “Trumps’ Abuse of Power,” HuffPost, July 27, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-abuse-of-power_us_5978c1d9e4b01cf1c4bb74cc (March 17, 2019).
55 Ibid.
56 David Rutz, “The Strongest Media Reactions to Trump’s Firing of James Comey,” Washington Free Beacon, May 10, 2017, https://freebeacon.com/politics/strongest-media-reactions-trumps-firing-of-james-comey (March 17, 2019).
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Steven T. Dennis, “Schumer Says He Lost Confidence in FBI’s Comey Over E-Mail Probe,” Bloomberg, November 2, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-02/schumer-says-he-lost-confidence-in-fbi-s-comey-over-e-mail-probe (March 17, 2019).
60 Nancy Cordes, “Tensions Boil Up Between Democrats and FBI Director,” CBS News, January 13, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-angry-james-comey-john-lewis-maxine-waters-hank-johnson/ (March 17, 2019).
61 “FBI Director James B. Comey’s Termination: Letters from the White House, Attorney General,” Washington Post, http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/fbi-director-james-b-comeys-termination-letters-from-the-white-house-attorney-general/2430/ (March 17, 2019).
62 Jim Sciutto, “First on CNN: In ltr to FBI staff, Comey says he’s ‘long believed a president can fire an FBI director for any reason or no reason at all,’ ” Twitter, May 10, 2017, https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/862461497401909248 (March 17, 2019).
63 David Burnham, A Law Unto Itself (New York: Random House, 1989), 228–29.
64 Ibid., 229.
65 Ibid., 230.
66 Ibid., 231.
67 Ibid., 232.
68 Burton W. Folsom Jr., “FDR and the IRS,” Hillsdale College, https://www.hillsdale.edu/educational-outreach/free-market-forum/2006-archive/fdr-and-the-irs/ (March 17, 2019).
69 Burnham, A Law Unto Itself, 236.
70 Folsom, “FDR and the IRS.”
71 Ibid.
72 Ibid.
73 Ibid.
74 Ibid.
75 Jeff Himmelman, Yours in Truth (New York: Random House, 2017), 87.
76 Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York: Norton, 1975), 218.
77 Burnham, A Law Unto Itself, 244.
78 Ibid., 272.
79 Jen Christensen, “FBI Tracked King’s Every Move,” CNN, December 28, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/mlk.fbi.conspiracy (March 17, 2019).
80 Greg Mitchell, The Tunnels (New York: Broadway Books, 2016), 95.
81 Lee Edwards, “The FBI Spied for LBJ’s Campaign,” Heritage Foundation, June 7, 2018, https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/the-fbi-spied-lbjs-campaign (March 17, 2019).
82 Ibid.
83 Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 (New York: Oxford University Press 1998), 161–62.
84 Ibid., 162.
85 Ibid., 576.
86 Burnham, A Law Unto Itself, 273.
87 Dallek, Flawed Giant, 407.
88 House Judiciary Committee, “Articles of Impeachment,” July 27, 1974, http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment (March 17, 2019).
89 Ibid.
90 Ibid.
91 Brendan Bordelon, “Obama Dismisses IRS Targeting of Conservatives: ‘They’ve Got a List, and Suddenly Everybody’s Outraged,’ ” Daily Caller, December 6, 2013, https://dailycaller.com/2013/12/06/obama-dismisses-irs-targeting-of-conservatives-theyve-got-a-list-and-suddenly-everybodys-outraged/ (March 17, 2019).
92 Alex Seitz-Wald, “How the Media Outrageously Blew the IRS Scandal,” BillMoyers.com, July 9, 2013, https://billmoyers.com/2013/07/09/how-the-media-outrageously-blew-the-irs-scandal/ (March 17, 2019).
93 Stephen Dinan, “Justice Department Admits IRS Wrongdoing, Agrees to $3.5 million Settlement with Tea Party Groups,” Washington Times, October 26, 2017, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/26/tea-party-groups-targeted-irs-get-35-million-settl/ (March 17, 2019).
94 Larry Sabato, The Kennedy Half Century (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), 129.
95 Ibid., 129–30.
96 Dallek, Flawed Giant, 186–87.
97 Ibid., 188.
98 Matt Drudge, “Newsweek Kills Story on White House Intern,” Drudge Report Archives, January 17, 1998, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm (March 17, 2019).
99 Aaron Klein, “Juanita Broaddrick: NBC Skipped ‘Perfect Opportunity’ to Ask Bill Clinton About Rape Allegations,” Breitbart, June 4, 2018, https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/06/04/juanita-broaddrick-nbc-skipped-perfect-opportunity-to-ask-bill-clinton-about-rape-allegations/# (March 17, 2019).
100 Ibid.
101 Alexandra Desanctis, “The Worst Moments in Media Coverage of the Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight,” National Review, October 11, 2018.
EPILOGUE: A STANDARDLESS PROFESSION
1 Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007), 88–89.
2 Ibid., 89.
3 Ashley Collman, “Rolling Stone Found GUILTY of Defaming University of Virginia Dean in False Campus Rape Story,” Daily Mail, November 4, 2016, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3906362/Rolling-Stone-GUILTY-defaming-University-Virginia-dean-false-campus-rape-story.html (March 17, 2019).
4 Mary Katherine Ham, “Fantastic Lies: 10 Appalling Moments from the Duke Lacrosse Case,” Federalist, March 16, 2016, http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/16/fantastic-lies-10-appalling-moments-from-the-duke-lacrosse-case (March 17, 2019).
5 William Campenni, “The Truth About Dan Rather’s Deceptive Reporting on George W. Bush,” Daily Signal, October 30, 2015, https://www.dailysignal.com/2015/10/30/the-truth-about-dan-rathers-deceptive-repor
ting-on-george-w-bush (March 17, 2019).
6 Lisa Boothe, “The Media’s Orchestrated Smear of Brett Kavanaugh,” Fox News, October 30, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-medias-orchestrated-smear-of-brett-kavanaugh (March 17, 2019).
7 Matt Walsh, “4 Lessons We Can Learn from the Despicable Smear Campaign Against the Covington Catholic Students,” Daily Wire, January 21, 2019, https://www.dailywire.com/news/42418/walsh-4-lessons-we-can-learn-despicable-smear-matt-walsh (March 17, 2019).
8 John Lott Jr., “The Media Just Can’t Stop Lying About Trump,” The Hill, June 21, 2018, https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/393553-the-media-just-cant-stop-lying-about-trump (March 17, 2019).
9 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/york-times-used-slogan-20412.html (March 17, 2019).
10 A. G. Sulzberger, “New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger Responded to President Trump’s Continued Attacks on a Free Press,” New York Times, February 20, 2019, https://www.nytco.com/press/new-york-times-publisher-a-g-sulzberger-responded-to-president-trumps-continued-attacks-on-a-free-press/ (March 17, 2019).
11 P. J. Gladnick, “Ted Koppel: Trump’s ‘Not Mistaken’ That Liberal Media Are Blatantly ‘Out to Get Him,’ ” NewsBusters, March 18, 2019, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2019/03/18/ted-koppel-trump-not-mistaken-about-biased-liberal-media.
12 Daniel Okrent, “The Public Editor; Paper of Record? No Way, No Reason, No Thanks,” New York Times, April 25, 2004, https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/weekinreview/the-public-editor-paper-of-record-no-way-no-reason-no-thanks.html (March 17, 2019).
13 Jim Rutenberg, “Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism,” New York Times, August 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/business/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html (March 17, 2019).
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