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- The top A&E events in the Baltimore area for the week of May 5-11, 2019.
- Anyone who has been watching any cable news during the early stages of the 2020 race knows how dominant, informational and powerful a role cable news has come to play in providing a microphone and stage for new voices and shaping the national conversation of politics and the presidency.
- Leonard Pitts Jr: Fox News does not deserve to be treated as a legitimate news organization.
- I'll be honest, some weeks I don’t know if I’m evolving to a higher ethical plane or losing my journalistic religion bit by bit as I struggle to communicate what I see as President Trump’s toxic effects on American media and culture.
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- If there's one thing candidate Donald Trump promised about Obamacare's future, it's that preexisting medical conditions would be covered. Well, now maybe not so much.
- Melania Trump's performance at Tuesday's state dinner gave media outlets a chance to contrast her qualities with those of her husband.
- Taking time out from suing President Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels takes to the stage at Fantasies strip club in Baltimore.
- The much-anticipated '60 Minutes' interview's most damaging disclosure wasn't about sex, it was about an illegal campaign donation.
- Trump had an interesting week to say the least, from oil drilling off the coasts to his war on the press to his statements on "s***hole" countries.
- Out magazine names DeRay Mckesson among Top 50 influential people in American LGBT culture
- Sure there was overkill in TV coverage of the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey. But it was justified by importance of the issue and what we learned.
- There is nothing intellectual or vibrant about what passes for conservatism these days, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- A Harvard study confirms what John Kass says he has always known: Media hate Donald Trump.
- As bad as things are at Fox News, they could get even worse - much worse if the ratings dip deepens.
- In Baltimore for a Hippodrome Theatre performance, CNN's Anderson Cooper and Bravo's Andy Cohen stopped by Mount Vernon gay bar Grand Central.
- Those among the Bravo-and-CNN-channel-flipping fans who would kill to get drinks with Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper have their chance. Kind of.
- Bluegrass, metal, country rock and Steve Winwood: this week in Baltimore A&E.
- Here's a list of some of the biggest events to look forward to in Baltimore in 2017.
- Why can't Americans speak/write English correctly? My friends Annette and Max recently moved back to Europe after living in Baltimore County for 20 years. They are living in Southern France while looking to buy a condo in Zurich or Germany. Not only are Annette and Max fluent in English, French and German, but Sammy, their yellow Labrador, understands commands in all three languages.
- In the election's aftermath, let's remember that we are all Americans, says Rex Huppke.
- All the seeds of Donald Trump's potential destruction were there in the summer of 2015 when he was riding so high, and it foreshadowed how the bombastic reality TV star would be critically wounded as a result of his flaws.
- All the seeds of Donald Trump's potential destruction were there in the summer of 2015 when he was riding so high, and it foreshadowed how the bombastic reality TV star would be critically wounded as a result of his flaws.
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- This presidential campaign has been so tabloid and downright strange that I didn’t think I could be stunned by anything I saw or heard in these closing weeks.
- As a larger-than-life and unusually dramatic presidential race winds down, Regal Cinemas is betting Sunday's presidential debate may be worth watching on the big screen.
- Town halls today have almost nothing to do with the real meaning of the term. Instead, they have become another instance of TV taking a staple of American life and shaping it to fit its commercial imperatives while trying to create the appearance that the institution is still doing the righteous, public-minded work it was originally intended to.
- Immediately after reading the script for "The Birth of a Nation," Jason Berman knew this was a movie he wanted to produce. Now, the Friends School graduate is confident the film will succeed despite controversy.
- Pence owes Kaine a thank-you note for informing him of all the crazy stuff Trump has said. Apparently he had no idea.
- A cliché holds that one never gets a second chance to make a first impression. Four years ago, though, President Obama didn't do well in his first encounter with Mitt Romney, but he bounced back in the second without any character transplant. Can the set-in-tone Donald Trump do likewise next time?
- Dan talks with media critic David Zurawik about last Monday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Paula Gallagher has three book recommendations.
- Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen will appear on CNN tonight to talk about the opioid addiction epidemic that has swept the country.
- Wednesday column on controversy over Obama Supreme Court appointment
- Even in the profoundly compromised realms of politics and cable TV, rarely is the quid pro quo as obvious as the one involved in MSNBC's announcement today that it will telecast a town hall tomorrow night featuring Donald Trump and "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski.
- Leonard Pitts Jr. imagines a conversation between two white male militants holding hostage a federal building.
- The nicest thing I can say about Wednesday night¿s GOP debate on CNBC is that it was lively. But that¿s where the nice stops.
- Democratic candidates didn't distinguish themselves in recent debate — despite what Jules Witcover may believe
- Jonah Goldberg: Democrats rarely get asked the tough questions Republicans get from the mainstream media.
- Martin O'Malley Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders Joe Biden Democratic debate CNN
- Don't blame CNN's Anderson Cooper. As moderator of the first TV debate among Democratic candidates, he tried.
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- In wake of Freddie Gray's death, media mistakes were devastating
- Billionaire, GOP presidential candidate walks all over journalists
- Reader from Catholic church in South Carolina decries critiques of the use of the word "thug."
- Syed case and S.C. shooting show outsiders, pros working the same ground
- Documentaries were supposed to be a dying genre -- and living proof that we were becoming dumber as a nation.
- A Texas verdict that a drunk-driving teen was too rich to know better has people up in arms, but such ruling may be more common than many think