THE MEDIA BEAT
Veteran journalist David Tereshchuk’s ongoing review of global media coverage.
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A Lesson on Beating Monsters
THE BBC ANNUALLY GIVES US A REMARKABLE FORUM of bold ideas — but this year ….
‘Resistance’ the New Watchword
AS OUR MEDIA REFLECT EVER MORE DIVISIVENESS in the nation’s politics, what does an effective “Resistance’ look like?
One year On: Trump’s Challenges
IT’S ONE WHOLE YEAR SINCE TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION - and another one whole year to the mid-term elections …
Seeking Truth About War - and Warriors
THE DEFENSE SECRETARY CALLING A MASS MEETING of top officers prompts questions …
The China Story: Usurping the U.S.
CHINA’s SUMMIT AND GRAND MILITARY DISPLAY underline its broad global outreach, not least to Africa …
Media-dominant Maxwells — and Me
RATHER UNUSUALLY THIS WEEK, I have a personal story to tell - about the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and her family ...
Argentina’s Reckoning with a Vicious Past
REPORTING FROM BUENOS AIRES, I’m encountering a confluence of interconnected issues …
For the Fourth … Another F-word to Ponder
AS WE CELEBRATE TOMORROW the nation’s escape from tyranny in the 1770s, let’s recognize modern-day oppression …
Timely Reminder on US Bigotry
A HISTORIAN OF TODAY EXPLORES AN EARLIER BACKLASH against reform, including the President’s wrecking moves …
Squabble for the Cameras over Africa
DID THE WHITE HOUSE VIDEO PROVE TRUMP’s allegations of “genocide” in South Africa? …
Unreliability, by the Numbers
THE WEEK JUST PAST saw the media breathlessly following Trump’s trip to the greater Middle East …
What it Means to be neighborly
I’LL BET YOU KNOW MANY PEOPLE eager to escape the follies and cruelties of our current US administration.
America the Spiteful
THE NEW AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION SHIFTS from its initial flurry of wild actions to a steady-state that’s vicious and menacing.
The Real World Awaiting Trump
THIS IS A MOMENT IN HISTORY when most American news media are (perhaps understandably) looking inward, domestically more than internationally.
Journalist Held Captive: Unarguably a US Priority
IN MY MOST RECENT The Media Beat BROADCAST/PODCAST, I promised a dispatch from Washington DC. Well, I have indeed spent some time now in the nation’s capital … and I can reliably report that the place is still (quite obviously) abuzz with transition news and gossip.
Inevitable Forensics - But Then What?
NINE DAYS AFTER ELECTION DAY, American mass media struggle to present explanations for Donald Trump’s sweeping victory …
The Election and War: Journalism’s Omissions
THE MEDIA CANNOT MISS that we’ve reached a telling juncture in the calendar, one with multiple points of significance. First: we’re at just twenty-six days until the US Presidential Election...
Assassinations, USA
THE U.S. IS STILL A VERY YOUNG NATION, we must always remember. This week’s major news, another evident attempt on the life of a candidate in the Presidential race, must put us in mind of our country’s youth. In previous eras before the USA’s creation, leaders had to regard meeting a violent death as simply an occupational hazard.