Erik Wemple
Washington Post
Washington, DC, United States
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Cable news approaches Uvalde school shooting with a practiced weariness
Cable news outlets are designed to show up-to-the-minute coverage of calamities. Even when they've covered the same one ad nauseam. → Read More
The Pentagon congratulates the New York Times for doing its work
The Pentagon's spokesman credited the Times with a punishing series exposing Defense Department missteps. Is there a precedent for such an acknowledgment? → Read More
Buffalo shows why the media covers Tucker Carlson’s ugliness
Fox News's top-rated host avoided the core issue. → Read More
Pulitzers bathe journos in adjectival glory: ‘Courageous, prescient and sweeping’
How to articulate original praise for the country's best pieces of journalism? → Read More
Jen Psaki’s puny conflict of interest
The outgoing White House press secretary has a conflict of interest, albeit a small one. → Read More
CNN’s new ownership gut-punched its journalists
Warner Bros. Discovery summarily dissed the work of hundreds of staffers. → Read More
Tucker Carlson, workplace menace
A New York Times investigation highlights the Fox News host's uncivil behavior toward colleagues. → Read More
Radical transparency visits the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court springs a leak and joins the modern world → Read More
NBC News says unattributed material in 11 articles was ‘supplemental’ reporting
Editor's note from broadcaster's website contains few details for its readers. → Read More
Sean Hannity is America’s most committed propagandist
The Fox News host had been burned before on his texting habit. He has been burned again. → Read More
CBS News commentator Mick Mulvaney has a new credibility problem
It's important for a TV commentator to believe in the things he says. → Read More
More Sean Hannity texts, more corruption
The bottomless trove of journalistic corruption that is Sean Hannity's text history. → Read More
Dean Baquet’s hands-on Times run is coming to a close
The transfer of power at the Gray Lady is turning out to be a quiet one, a nice departure from the tumult following the dismissal of Baquet’s predecessor, Jill Abramson. → Read More
The GOP’s putrid case against the debates commission
The GOP's case against the Commission on Presidential Debates is riven with the same problems as its presidential candidates. → Read More
Rachel Maddow can do whatever she pleases
Hiatus? You got it. Weekly program? Sure thing. → Read More
Tucker Carlson exposes his own vaccine hypocrisy
After saying that vaccination is an intensely private choice, he tells an audience about his own. → Read More
CNN’s Brian Stelter blindsided by co-author of Fox News study
Fox News engages in "partisan coverage filtering." Guess what other network does so too? → Read More
Biden disdains Fox News — but still wants to reach its audience
Some of these folks, the Biden administration has concluded, are persuadable. → Read More
Don Lemon calls Biden-Putin controversy a ‘media-manufactured story.’ Really?
Guess which media organization was working overtime on the production line? → Read More
Chris Wallace denounces Fox News. At last.
It was clear why Chris Wallace left Fox News late last year. Now he speaks. → Read More