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Journalists Aren’t 'Fake News.' They’re Patriots
Commentary
On Monday, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb. She led the research into the Panama Papers, which exposed tens of billions of dollars of stolen money...
By Neal Urwitz
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Limbaugh, Hannity and Jones on North Korea: A parody in one act
(North Korea, marking the Oct. 10 founding of the ruling Workers' Party, has launched a nuclear strike on Seattle. Hundreds of thousands are dead. The United States gears up f...
By Neal Urwitz
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It's Not a Tax Cut — It's Generational Theft
Hey Baby Boomers — if you could stop stealing from my generation, we’d really appreciate it. To be clear, I’m referring to President Trump’s tax-cut proposal. His proposal, if...
By Neal Urwitz
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Keeping Confederate Statues Doesn't Defend History
The people arguing against removing statues to Confederate leaders insist "We’re just defending history," adding, "We’re just preserving the memory of the Civil War." Hogwash....
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump Complaining About 'Fake News' a Snowflake Move
The Trump administration is, to borrow the president’s description of his own attorney general, beleaguered. It hasn’t had a win since confirming Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme C...
By Neal Urwitz
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Goodbye to Spicer — This Wasn't His Fault
To the surprise of no one, Sean Spicer resigned as White House Press Secretary on Friday. The rumors he was “out” had been swirling for months. The press — even traditionally ...
By Neal Urwitz
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A Focused Trump Could Help His Press Secretaries Succeed
The Trump administration is struggling to get a strong, positive message to the American people. Whenever the administration wants to focus on a policy matter — remember Infra...
By Neal Urwitz
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RT and the 'Little Green Men' of News
New French President Emmanuel Macron received overwhelmingly positive reviews for saying that Russian state-owned media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik "behaved like dec...
By Neal Urwitz
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Treating Listeners with Respect
I spent last weekend with my two-year-old twin nieces. They both love riding on this little rocking zebra. And if one of them is rocking, you can be sure the other is going to...
By Neal Urwitz
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Neal Urwitz for Politico
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. He’s almost constantly under fire from an increasingly unsympathetic public and the frustrat...
By Neal Urwitz
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The State Department Press Corps Is an Asset, Not a Liability
A bad idea, left unchallenged, can become a “good” idea in the minds of the powerful. It can then be acted upon, often to terrible results. The Bay of Pigs fiasco, for instanc...
By Neal Urwitz
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Memo to the Marine Corps: Don't Pretend It's Just a PR Problem
Following almost every crisis and scandal, the person, company or government entity responsible is tempted chalk it up as "just a PR problem." "If only they knew the real us,"...
By Amy Schafer & Neal Urwitz
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Trump admin's 'alpha male' approach hurts men in the end
I’m a man, and a fairly traditional one. I own a drill and can do some home improvement projects, though I get angry at myself when I can’t complete a job. Whiskey is my go to...
By Neal Urwitz
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Don't panic about 'alternative facts'
Since Donald Trump upended everything we thought we knew about politics, hands have been wrung and ink has been spilled about the "post-factual age." How could the candidate w...
By Neal Urwitz
