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1 week ago | 
portside.org | Parker Molloy
Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy Published May 29, 2025 Earlier this month, journalist Scott Pelley delivered what should have been a fairly standard commencement address at Wake Forest University. The 60 Minutes correspondent spoke about seeking truth, defending democracy, and the importance of courage in difficult times—the kind of boilerplate inspiration you’d expect from a veteran journalist addressing graduates.
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1 week ago | 
newrepublic.com | Parker Molloy
Earlier this month, journalist Scott Pelley delivered what should have been a fairly standard commencement address at Wake Forest University. The 60 Minutes correspondent spoke about seeking truth, defending democracy, and the importance of courage in difficult times—the kind of boilerplate inspiration you’d expect from a veteran journalist addressing graduates.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Parker Molloy
Earlier this month, journalist Scott Pelley delivered what should have been a fairly standard commencement address at Wake Forest University. The 60 Minutes correspondent spoke about seeking truth, defending democracy, and the importance of courage in difficult times—the kind of boilerplate inspiration you’d expect from a veteran journalist addressing graduates.
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2 weeks ago | 
readtpa.com | Parker Molloy
The Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list with one major problem: most of the books don't exist. Titles like Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende and The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir sound plausible enough, but they're completely fictional—fabricated by AI and published without anyone catching the error. Of the fifteen books recommended in the list, a full ten of them are entirely made up.
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1 month ago | 
newrepublic.com | Parker Molloy
What happens when you call a 5-year-old Black child a racial slur in public? If you’re Shiloh Hendrix of Rochester, Minnesota, you apparently get rewarded with more than $700,000 in donations. In case you missed it, a video went viral last week showing Hendrix, a white woman, admitting to using the N-word against a young Black child at a public park.
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1 month ago | 
newrepublic.com | Parker Molloy
It’s not often that an interview perfectly encapsulates a politician’s relationship with reality, but Donald Trump’s recent sit-down with ABC News’s Terry Moran gives us exactly that—a window into Trump’s expectation that the press should simply bend to his version of events, regardless of whether they’re true. During the interview, Trump repeatedly insisted that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador despite a protective order, had “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Parker Molloy
It’s not often that an interview perfectly encapsulates a politician’s relationship with reality, but Donald Trump’s recent sit-down with ABC News’s Terry Moran gives us exactly that—a window into Trump’s expectation that the press should simply bend to his version of events, regardless of whether they’re true. During the interview, Trump repeatedly insisted that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador despite a protective order, had “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles.
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1 month ago | 
newrepublic.com | Parker Molloy
There comes a moment when journalistic integrity meets corporate reality. For Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, that moment arrived on Tuesday when he announced his resignation to a stunned newsroom. “It’s clear that I’ve become the problem. I am the corporation’s problem,” Owens told his staff, his voice breaking as he struggled to maintain his composure.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Parker Molloy
John Oliver Stirs J.K. Rowling Outrage After Criticizing Right Wing ‘Obsession’ With Banning Trans Athletes; Rowling Tells Him to ‘Read the F—ing Room’John Oliver has once again provoked J.K. Rowling when it comes to the topic of trans athletes. Oliver devoted the bulk of “Last Week Tonight” on …
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2 months ago | 
newrepublic.com | Parker Molloy
On Saturday, April 5, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets across the nation to protest the harmful policies of Donald Trump’s second term. The “Hands Off!” demonstrations represented what organizers called “the largest single day of protest since Trump entered office” with more than 1,100 rallies scheduled in all 50 states. From Chicago to Washington, DC; Asheville to Boston; Milwaukee to Louisville—people showed up in droves.
