Jeremy Fassler

Jun 15

Reporters Need to Re-Learn The Lessons of Watergate

On June 15, 1974, almost two years to the day of the Watergate burglary, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein published All the President’s Men, a narrative of their reporting on Watergate that begins with the break-in, climaxes in May 1973 with the revelation that the cover-up went all the way…

Trump

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Have Reporters Forgotten the Legacy of Watergate?

May 3

Mehdi Hasan’s Indefensible Defense of Being Pro-Life

In 2012, when he was still living in the United Kingdom, MSNBC journalist Mehdi Hasan wrote an essay for The New Statesman/HuffPost UK called “Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty.” …

Abortion

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Mehdi Hasan Once Wrote That Being Pro-Life Didn’t Make Him “Any Less of a Lefty.”

Mar 28

Will Smith and the Oscars Enter the Speed Force

Will Smith slapped a guy. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on national television after Rock joked that Jada Pinkett Smith looked like she was going off to star in G.I. Jane 2 because of her bald head (she actually has…

Oscars

6 min read

Feb 23

I Love The Oscars. So Why Do They Hate People Like Me?

Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will drop eight categories from this year’s Oscars — the three short subject awards, score, production design, editing, makeup, and sound. These awards will be presented in the hour leading up to the ceremony, and the…

Academy Awards

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I Love The Oscars. So Why Do They Hate People Like Me?

Jan 31

A 2022 Midterms Guide, Part Two: The Down-ballot State Races

This is the second in a series of articles that will highlight the important races to focus on in 2022 to assure Democratic control of the House, Senate, governorships, and other local officials. …

Democrats

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A 2022 Midterms Guide, Part Two: The Down-Ballot State Races

Jan 24

A 2022 Midterms Guide, Part 1: The Senate

This is the first in a series of articles that will highlight the important races to focus on in 2022 to assure Democratic control of the House, Senate, governorships, and other local officials. First up: The Senate. The center of dysfunction in Washington D.C. is, both now and historically, the…

2022

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Jan 11

Cancel Culture vs. Consequence Culture — And the Casualties of Ridiculousness

As perhaps the final major social media “disappearing” of 2021, acclaimed YouTube video essayist Lindsay Ellis recently announced she would quit vlogging forever. This followed a months-long Twitter-dogpiling stemming from an accusation that she’d tweeted a racist analogy about a Disney movie. Even though she really didn’t. The attack and…

You Tube

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Lindsay Ellis Was A Victim of Cancel Culture

Jan 6

Peter Bogdanovich Was the Bridge Between Old and New Hollywood

Peter Bogdanovich, who died today at 82, once boasted that he’d “seen every American film worth seeing.” That’s an extremely arrogant thing to say — and Bogdanovich was an extremely arrogant man — but given that he most likely said it in the late 60s or early 70s, he was…

Movies

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Peter Bogdanovich Was the Bridge Between Old and New Hollywood

Jan 5

Merrick Garland Is Doing The Work. Stop Yelling “DO SOMETHING!” At Him.

I just watched Merrick Garland’s press conference this morning and wanted to share a few thoughts about what he said, why it’s important, and why we have to stop screaming “DO SOMETHING!” at him now that it’s been almost a year since the day the yahoos stormed the Capitol. Garland…

January 6 2021

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Merrick Garland’s Press Conference Proves He’s Doing The Work. Stop Yelling At Him, Democrats.

Jan 1

Seen, Read, 2021

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, plus asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES All italics: Book Quotation Marks: “Play” (in theatres) Italics and Quotation Marks: “Short Story” Underlined: Play (read) 1/1: DUCK SOUP, YENTL, COLUMBO 1/2: The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, The Presidents vs. The Press, Harold Holzer 1/4…

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