Justin Peters
Corespodent at Slate
@Slate correspondent, author, improviser, game show loser. Unapologetically off-topic.
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1 month ago |
slate.com | Justin Peters
The Media Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The motto was a little bit much. Pompous and self-important, it sounded as if the newspaper was really trying to say Without the Washington Post, we’re all screwed.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
slate.com | Justin Peters
Politics Not long after midnight on election night, as the once-unthinkable prospect of a Donald Trump victory was congealing into inevitability, former Democratic congressman Harold Ford made a rather fatuous plea on Fox News. “If it looks like what’s gonna happen happens, I do hope everybody can be gracious and magnanimous,” Ford said. In an evening’s worth of terrible news, it was perhaps the most aggravating thing I heard all night.
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Nov 5, 2024 |
slate.com | Justin Peters
Skip to the content The Media Update, Nov. 6, 1:52 a.m.: Fox News just called the election for Donald Trump. Notably, The Associated Press has not. The post below will be updated. With Kamala Harris’ odds of winning the presidency dwindling with each twitch of the New York Times’ much-hated needle, what’s the mood like on Fox News right now?
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Nov 5, 2024 |
slate.com | Justin Peters
Wide Angle Inside every young male MAGA dipshit there are two very stupid wolves. (It’s basic science, people.) One wolf is Donald Trump, who tells young men that they, like him, should be able to do and say whatever they want without ever suffering any consequences.
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Nov 4, 2024 |
slate.com | Justin Peters
The Media On Sept. 10, during the presidential debate hosted by ABC News, Republican candidate Donald Trump told an obvious lie. While attempting to malign the immigration policies of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants in Ohio had been kidnapping and eating residents’ household pets. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats,” Trump said.
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the “kim carnes & the hate boys” revival starts here https://t.co/4OmSEAZ60E
Surprised that Tucker Carlson platformed a Holocaust revisionist on his X show? Read my May @Slate assessment of the host's sad post-Fox career to understand why something like this was inevitable: https://t.co/9QGAmOwnKi
It's sad to realize that not even the patronage of the third-wealthiest man in the world is enough to spare the Washington Post from the business-book buzzword bullshit that's long been responsible for the worst ideas in news. Me in @Slate. https://t.co/HBbtq8OiaT