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• Commentary

Zirpoli: What did you say?

Many evangelicals are selling their souls in defense of President Donald Trump. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas Church, however, takes the cake. He told Fox & Friends Sunday that, “The Bible says even heaven itself is gonna have a wall around it. Not everyone is going to be allowed

• Opinion

The end of a very bad year for Trump's right-wing message machine

President Donald Trump is struggling to control the media message in a way not seen before in his presidency.

By David Zurawik

Dec 31, 2018

• Opinion

Mueller filings on Trump: another example of two very different news realities

Yet again, we are faced with another major Trump related story and another tale of two very different news realities. The last one involved the use of tear gas on migrants at the border. This one involves the Friday court filings by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

By David Zurawik

Dec 9, 2018

• Opinion

Zurawik: After Trump v. Acosta, it's time to stop broadcasting White House press briefings live

Let’s put aside all the heated rhetoric and personality-oriented-Trump-v-Acosta framing and ask more fundamental questions, such as: With all the disinformation and lies coming from that podium in the White House press room, what are we getting from these sessions anyway?

By David Zurawik

Nov 20, 2018

• Opinion

Pitts: What journalists do

It's telling that Sean Hannity of Fox "News" is Mr. Trump's idea of a real journalist, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Podcast

Zurawik on Fox: Shilling without shame for Trump

The Sun's media critic David Zurawik talks about Sean Hannity's role as a shill for President Trump.

By Dan Rodricks

Nov 7, 2018

• Opinion

Zurawik: Fox News gives itself totally over to Trump on election eve in a new propaganda low even for Hannity

In my worst fears since 2016 about what President Trump's right-wing media messaging machine would look like and how it might affect our democracy, I never thought I would see what I did Monday night on Fox News starting with the propaganda performance of Sean Hannity.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2018

• Opinion

Goldberg: Logic of the vendetta now guides our politics

American politics is descending further into the logic of the vendetta, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

Watching the Trump propaganda machine gearing up on Kavanaugh, midterms

As our politics move from crazy to crazy and fevered with the battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh totally on and midterms just around the corner, it is fascinating to watch the Trump propaganda machine gear up. Enter stage right: Sean Hannity and Boris Epshteyn.

By David Zurawik

Sep 24, 2018

• Opinion

Interviewing Trump: Same old, same old not good enough anymore

Reporters can't let President Donald Trump run roughshod over them in interviews.

By David Zurawik

Jul 22, 2018

• Opinion

Trump's TV messaging machine not looking quite so mighty these days

Donald Trump isn't commanding free media the way he once did.

By David Zurawik

Jul 11, 2018

• Opinion

Hannity outrageously points finger at Waters, Obama for rhetoric that fed Annapolis Capital Gazette shooting

Fox News host Sean Hannity blamed Thursday's mass shooting in the Annapolis Capital Gazette newsroom on Rep. Maxine Waters and former President Barack Obama.

By David Zurawik

Jun 28, 2018

• Opinion

Trump border policy so debased even right-wing media can't defend it credibly

Even Trump's right-wing messaging machine on Fox can't defend his policy of separating children from their parents.

By David Zurawik

Jun 19, 2018

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Is a second American civil war possible?

When Donald Trump says the political system is "rigged," he's not far off the mark, says Robert Reich. 

• Opinion

Trump propaganda is even worse than you think on Fox News these nights

Fox News at night is like state-run TV under an authoritarian regime. The Trump propaganda is relentless.

By David Zurawik

May 16, 2018

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: The exhaustion factor

The "wall of protection" conservative media has erected around President Trump may be crumbling, says Cal Thomas.

• Opinion

Goldberg: There's no rush for Giuliani to get his facts straight

Jonah Goldberg: If there were any doubt that the multi-front battle over the Russia investigation has become the political equivalent of a Tong war, Rudy Giuliani removed it.

• Opinion

Zurawik: This is the show to watch to understand the chaos of the Trump era in real time

Showtime's 'The Circus' is in sync with the chaos of Trump presidency.

By David Zurawik

Apr 24, 2018

• Opinion

Rodricks: Expressing shame in an era of shamelessness

Former Baltimore County schools superintendent Dallas Dance expressed shame, something increasingly rare in the Trump era.

By Dan Rodricks

Apr 24, 2018

• Opinion

Conservative media rising in Trump's America

Fox might be the most prominent platform to have become more politically emboldened since the election of President Donald Trump, but it is only one of several that have taken a more partisan turn or made clear their intentions of serving the president’s goals in 2017.

By David Zurawik

Dec 22, 2017

• Opinion

Goldberg: If he's lost Fox viewers...

Even Fox viewers are beginning to abandon President Trump, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Even Fox News anchors debunk Clinton uranium 'scandal'

When a serious charge against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is debunked by a Fox News anchor, you can be sure the charge is fake news, even if the charge is promoted by a second Fox News anchor named Sean Hannity.

• Opinion

Washington Post offers clarity, Hannity brings confusion to Roy Moore coverage

The saga of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore has been a sordid one. But there is one media story line that ought to be celebrated: the power of the Washington Post's fact-based journalism to deliver clarity, change minds and shape events. And then, there's Sean Hannity's coverage ...

By David Zurawik

Nov 17, 2017

• Opinion

Goldberg: Immigration hawks licking their wounds after Trump's about-face

It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump the moth flew to glow of public opinion, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

Horsey: Sean Hannity hits the right note in a discordant time

Defending the principles that make this nation a beacon of liberty is exactly why journalists do what they do, says David Horsey.

• Opinion

Media coverage of the Gosnell case is proof of liberal bias

• Opinion

Ben Carson scheduled to appear on Baltimore's Fox 45 Town Hall

Johns Hopkins Dr. Ben Carson, who has been all over the news following a controversial appearance last week on the Fox News channel, is scheduled for a hometown Fox appearance on WBFF this week.

• Ben Carson

Ben Carson's conservative views are drawn from the Bible

• Opinion

Did Dr. Ben Carson go too far in Fox comments on same-sex marriage?

Hopkins neurosurgeon uses rhetoric of extreme right on Fox Hannity show

• Opinion

Carson pilloried by critics for daring to speak truth

Ben Carson speech lauded by conservatives

• Opinion

Carson pilloried by critics for daring to speak truth

• Health

Controversial address vaults Hopkins' Carson into political arena

Dr. Ben Carson's calls for controversial policy changes, with President Barack Obama two seats away, has some calling for him to run for office and others demanding his apology.

• Opinion

ESPN telecast of Maryland and Duke almost as sweet as the victory

Dave O'Brien (play by play), Doris Burke (analysis) and Jeannine Edwards (reporting) did such a fine job that by the middle of the first half I had my notebook out trying to keep up with all the things they were doing right.

• Opinion

MSNBC really is more partisan than Fox, according to Pew study

ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3. That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine.

• Opinion

A debate about debates

Cal Thomas says moderators should reflect ideological -- rather than racial or gender -- diversity

• Opinion

Romney and Reid are both playing fast-and-loose — and the media lets them get away with it

Mitt Romney is right that Harry Reid should put up or shut up on his allegations about the GOP nominee's tax returns, but only Mr. Romney can make the issue go away.

• Opinion

See Michelle Malkin, Juan Williams go to war on Hannity

Honestly, I have been thinking about this segment on Sean Hannity's Wednesday night show for the last 24 hours trying to figure out if it a great cable news segment or the embodiment of so much of what is wrong with prime-time cable news TV.

• Opinion

Mike Bordick in the broadcast booth: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

I have been putting off this post for a couple of weeks. It's about Mike Bordick's performance on MASN as an analyst on Orioles games.

• Opinion

Politico on TV: Winning way to get inside Election 2012 tonight

Online political powerhouse a C-SPAN star on Super Tuesday

• Opinion

Palin TV-movie 'Game Change' pushes the limits of docudrama

What sets "Game Change" part is how it has radically shortened the distance between real-life events and their Hollywood depiction. As the producers deftly blend actual news footage and dramatic recreations, "Game Change" vaporizes the lines of fact and fiction as you watch.

• Opinion

First look at HBO's 'Game Change' - A film so political in so many good ways

And the Baltimore-made docudrama is likely to stir real political debate

• Opinion

For GOP voters, a $10,000 question

Mitt Romney's latest gaffe is just the latest reminder of how Republicans are running out of sensible presidential alternatives

• Politics

Ehrlich back on the trail, but for readers not voters

Having been rejected by Maryland voters in his last campaign for office, former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is taking his show on the road with a new book, "Turn This Car Around," which he hopes will give him a higher national profile.

• Opinion

Government should rein in spending to match drop in revenue

Households cut their personal spending to match income, government should do the same

• Opinion

Michele Bachmann and the re-education of Chris Wallace

Just one week after a winning interview with comedian Jon Stewart, Fox News host Chris Wallace stumbled in his covbersation with a much friendlier guest, Michele Bachmann, the hottest new GOP presidential candidate.

• TV

HBO set designers provide 'change' you can believe in

The producers of 'Game Change' have deftly turned the Baltimore area into a nationwide campaign trail.

• Opinion

Conservatives don't advocate violence — at least not directly

• Glenn Beck

Palin, Beck not to blame for Az. shooting

• Sean Hannity

Shoveling out the week's sports media notes...

• Republican Party

GOP's future in good hands