by Kate Bartlett | Oct 11, 2019 | American Presidency, Journalism in the Trump Era, Personal Reflections, Politics, Presidential Election
I had a run-in with ”the Mooch” recently. I spoke to former White House adviser Anthony Scaramucci outside an event of his in Austin, Texas, and, um, it got a bit awkward. When he learned I was from South Africa, the Mooch said sarcastically that he supposed things...
by Hamdi Baala | Oct 11, 2019 | American Presidency, Changes in Journalism, Journalism, Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...
by Hanna Liubakova | Oct 1, 2019 | Journalism in the Trump Era
Not only was President Trump trying to coerce a foreign leader to find dirt on a political opponent, he also promotes a longstanding conspiracy theory originating in right-wing circles. As the rough transcript of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
by Rosen Tsvetkov | Sep 29, 2019 | Journalism, Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage
The days before elections in Bulgaria are always extremely tense. It is a well-known fact in my country that when there are elections, there are numerous attempts to manipulate the vote. Some of them are successful. The most popular method used by many Bulgarian...
by Martin Kibaba | Sep 28, 2019 | American Presidency, Journalism in the Trump Era, Personal Reflections, Political Coverage, Politics
The media is awash with the Trump-Ukraine phone call scandal. Everyone is analyzing it their own way. Read transcript here Thanks Mr. President for this “wonderful conversation” with your Ukrainian counterpart. “Perfect phone call with the president...
by Hanna Liubakova | Sep 23, 2019 | Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...
