Paul Janensch
Stamford Advocate
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Opinion: Trump insults reporters at briefings
The president routinely denigrates those who ask questions at daily White House coronavirus briefings. → Read More
Opinion: Doctors stand out at virus briefings
Fauci and Birx. I will remember those names for a long time. Through Friday, I watched the televised briefings at the White House about the government's response to the coronavirus threat. The briefings weren't brief. President Donald Trump did much of the talking. From time to time, he yielded the lectern to Vice President Mike Pence, head of the response task force, and others crowded on the… → Read More
Opinion: Have media hyped news of coronavirus?
The president and Fox news commentators say the media is hyping the coronavirus to make Trump look bad. That's not true. → Read More
Opinion: How to evaluate a news provider
News is supposed to be timely and reliable information about subjects of interest to the public. A news provider can be a newspaper or magazine, a cable news channel, a television station or network, a radio station or network, or an internet site. For evaluating a news provider, I borrowed five standards from the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (spj.org) and made them… → Read More
Public media wins big in duPont-Columbia University awards
Half of the 2020 awards were for work brought to us by public media, the columnist writes. → Read More
Opinion: Journalism remains a dangerous job
The bad news is that around the world in 2019 at least 25 journalists were killed and at least 250 were imprisoned for doing their jobs. The good news is that the number of journalists killed fell sharply. In 2018, 56 journalists were killed. The numbers are in reports by the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York. The reports cover the period from Jan. 1 to Dec. 13, 2019. Why the… → Read More
These were the most dangerous countries for journalists in 2019
At least 25 journalists were killed and at least 250 were imprisoned for doing their jobs, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. → Read More
Opinion: Andrea Mitchell: still smart and tough
Four decades ago, Andrea Mitchell and I were aspiring news hounds in Philadelphia. I was managing editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, a brash tabloid that (miraculously) still exists. She covered City Hall for KYW All News Radio. Back then, she was smart and tough. Today, at 72, as NBC's chief foreign correspondent and host of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," she still is. This year… → Read More
Opinion: What NY Times’ Kavanaugh essay left out
The New York Times should not have published the essay on a new sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh. → Read More
What The New York Times' essay on Kavanaugh left out
What did the essay tell me that I had not already read or heard? Not much, until the 11th paragraph. → Read More
What’s next after working for President Trump?
Sarah Sanders isn’t the only high-profile individual to go from President Donald Trump’s administration to Fox. → Read More
Paul Janensch: What’s next after working for Trump?
You probably know that former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is joining Fox News as a contributor. It will keep her in the public eye while she considers running for governor of Arkansas, her home state. She will make her debut Friday morning, Sept. 6, on "Fox & Friends." Sanders isn't the only high-profile individual to go from President Donald Trump's administration to Fox. Another… → Read More
Paul Janensch: ‘Excellent investigative journalism’ in Epstein case
Julie K. Brown was exasperated watching the televised 2017 Senate hearings on Alexander Acosta's nomination to be secretary of labor. She thought the senators did not ask the nominee enough about the limp prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein 10 years earlier when Acosta was U.S. attorney for South Florida. Epstein, a well-connected multi-millionaire, was suspected by federal and local law enforcement… → Read More
A worthy Pulitzer win in Florida (op-ed)
The South Florida Sun Sentinel has won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service for its coverage of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The newspaper, which serves the Fort Lauderdale area, deserves it. On learning of the shooting in February 2018, I was reminded of the mass shooting five years earlier at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, 20… → Read More
Journalism remains a dangerous profession
Politics was the most dangerous subject to cover, followed by human rights. → Read More
Media were unfair, at times, to George H.W. Bush
It’s true that Bush, who grew up in tony Greenwich, Connecticut, came across as an upper-class, well-mannered fellow. But a wimp he was not. → Read More
Acosta was wrong and so was Trump
Unfortunately, Acosta and Trump turned what could have been an informative Q&A exchange into an argument. → Read More
Paul Janensch: Acosta was wrong and so was Trump
That was quite a show CNN's Jim Acosta and President Donald Trump put on at the presidential news conference held the day after the midterm elections. You may have seen it on a TV or digital screen. It reminded me of a gunfight in an old Western movie. Except Acosta and Trump shot words, not bullets, and neither of them was a hero. In my opinion, Acosta was wrong and so was Trump. Here's how… → Read More
‘False flag’ theory about mail bombs looks like conspiracy theory
Some conservatives contended that Democrats had secretly arranged for the delivery of the bombs to make Republicans look . → Read More
How Saudi crown prince charmed the media until Khashoggi's disappearance
Once praised as a “youthful reformer,” Mohammed bin Salman is currently presented in the media as a “ruthless royal." → Read More