Monthly Archives: December 2019

Front Page Heds: The Impeachment edition

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Just as I had predicted in headline from the future, “Impeached” was popular, but there were other variations I did not think of.

“IMPEACHMENT”

Because we all know what’s going on here:

“TRUMP IMPEACHED”

Because we forgot WHO this is about:

“HOUSE IMPEACHES”

Who did what? Because we need a civics lesson:

“DIVIDED HOUSE”

Because we didn’t realize the partisanship going on:

“HISTORY”

Because, well, duh:

Design kudos

Because style matters:

President with an *

I think I understand what they intended, but not really agreeing… If you’re not understanding, I think this is like a baseball reference, where there is some sort of record with as asterisk, which diminishes the record.

Thanks to my good friends at the Newseum (RIP) for these images.

Newspapers calling for impeachment

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My good friends over at the Daily Kos has a list of 23 newspaper editorial boards calling for Trump’s impeachment:

Washington Post: The case for impeachment

USA Today: USA TODAY’s Editorial Board: Impeach President Trump

New York Times: Impeach

New York Daily News: The truth hurts: The House Intelligence Committee presents a coherent and compelling case for impeachment

Philadelphia Inquirer: Impeach President Donald Trump | Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board

Boston Globe: Impeach the president​​​​​​​

Los Angeles Times: Editorial: We’ve Seen Enough: Trump should be impeached

San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial: What is the alternative to impeachment?​​​​​​​

Tampa Bay Times: The case for impeachment | Editorial​​​​​​​

Orlando Sentinel: The House should vote to impeach Trump, and the Senate should remove him from office | Editorial​​​​​​​

Chicago Sun-Times: The case for impeachment over censure for President Donald Trump​​​​​​​

Salt Lake Tribune: Tribune Editorial: Impeachment proceeds as it should

Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Editorial: It’s now time to impeach Trump​​​​​​​

And here are a few more:

San Jose Mercury News: Editorial: Impeach Trump. No American is above the rule of law

[Santa Rosa, CA] Press Democrat: PD Editorial: House makes case for impeachment

Baltimore Sun: Donald Trump’s clear abuse of power compels impeachment by the full House

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Editorial: Trump earned this impeachment. Give him his due.

Syracuse Post-Standard: House must vote to impeach President Trump (Editorial)​​​​​​​

Connecticut Post: Editorial: President Trump needs to step down

[New London, CT] The Day: Impeachment is proper check on Trump’s abuse of power

York [PA] Dispatch: EDITORIAL: House must impeach Trump

Portland Oregonian: Editorial: On impeachment, Oregon’s representatives should vote their conscience​​​​​​​

The Guardian: The Guardian view on Trump’s impeachment: the integrity of US democracy is at stake — Editorial

Hedlines from the future

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Not too difficult to prognosticate in the case against Donald J. Trump … here are some hedlines (from the mainstream media):

IMPEACHED!

TRUMP IMPEACHED

PRESIDENT IMPEACHED

And here are some from the right-wing propaganda media:

DEMS IMPEACH TRUMP

TRUMP VOWS TO FIGHT BACK

TRUMP: ‘FAKE IMPEACHMENT’

We’ll post actual hedlines next wee or when the news breaks. Stay tuned

Newspaper pushes back against Clint Eastwood movie — and rightly so

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From the AJC.com website 12/09/2019

I think everyone at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution knew that the film about the 1996 Olympic Park bombing was not going to portray the newspaper in a good light, but Mr. Talk to the Empty chair Eastwood is portraying AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs in a VERY bad light.

Read the AJC story here. More reporting from Deadline here.

Here is the letter attorney Marty Singer sent to Warner Bros and Oscar winner Eastwood on behalf of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

richard-jewell-ajc-letter_redacted-wmDownload

Warner Bros., of course, says it ain’t so and there’s a disclaimer at the end of the movie.

Read this from my good friends over at Jezelbel:

But according to everyone except this movie … Kathy Scruggs did not sleep with anyone for a scoop. She is being libeled in the movie about the man who got libeled.

Wonkette

This is a good article the AJC ran about Kathy:

Looks to me that Olivia is doing some backpedaling on Twitter:

The Wall Street Journal review give us this:

The Kathy Scruggs character, as written by Mr. Ray and played by Ms. Wilde under Mr. Eastwood’s direction, is a retrograde refugee from third-rate film noir, a seductress variant of Hildy Johnson, the hilariously unscrupulous crime reporter played by Rosalind Russell in the classic 1940 Howard Hawks comedy “His Girl Friday.” She’s out of place here, stylistically and dramatically, and, as I said, her sleaziness is gratuitous. 

Joe Morgenstern

I think I’ll end it with this:

NBC News

On second thought, here’s this:

From my good friends over at The Onion

Full disclosure: I was in the Park during the bombing and helped write the initial stories for the AJC. I also knew Kathy and can assure you she did not have to sleep with anyone to get a story.

When is a daily newspaper not really a daily anymore?

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TLTR: In order for Cox to include its Ohio newspapers in a sale to Apollo Global Management, to comply with FCC ownership requirements, the Dayton Daily News, Springfield Sun and (Hamilton) Journal-News will drop to three print editions a week instead of seven.

Read about it here, from my good friends over at NiemanLab. BTW — that’s their illustration of the Dayton Daily News flag.

I suspect there will not be a name change, since the FCC ruling will not effect the newspaper websites. However, who knows what kind of zany name the marketing folks will want. I guess it’s stay tuned and we’ll find out at the end of the month.

Full disclosure: Cox Media Group — the one owned by Cox and not the new Cox Media Group owned mostly by Apollo used to be my employer.