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Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 2

Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 2

August 31, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

September 11 was a paradigm shifting moment in American journalism. This is the second of a two-part series examining the collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media. Part 1 of this series can be found here.    A few days after the…

Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home

Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home

August 27, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

This is the first of a two-part series examining the collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media.  I have never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It…

Patrick Lawrence: A Hall of Mirrors

Patrick Lawrence: A Hall of Mirrors

August 19, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

I have long wondered whether our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators get dressed each morning in the same locker room, so similarly do they account for things. This has been especially so in the case of the Ukraine crisis, which…

Patrick Lawrence: So Far As I Can Make Out

Patrick Lawrence: So Far As I Can Make Out

August 11, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media. So far as I can make out, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing their war against the Russian…

Patrick Lawrence: Language and Its Enemies

Patrick Lawrence: Language and Its Enemies

August 4, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Media critic Patrick Lawrence lays out how the aftermath and potential consequences of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit are made obscure by certain media outlets. The provoking and the provoked I can hardly keep up with the various versions of nonsense coming…

Government Supervised Times, Wartime Reporting, and More

Government Supervised Times, Wartime Reporting, and More

July 31, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

We talk to Patrick Lawrence about Ukraine by diving deeper into his recent articles written for ScheerPost.

Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors

July 21, 2022 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Zelensky’s purging of top officials as “traitors” ignored by Western media cheerleaders. Under Every Bed  It has been quite a week for the regime in Kiev. On Sunday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended the head of his domestic intelligence service,…

Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone

December 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Our media loves to pose as high-minded overseas. At home, they do the government’s bidding almost without fail They say fiction has had its day, given over to Brooklyn-dwellers with nothing to say. True and not. Our newspapers provide splendid…

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