The closer we get to Election Day, the hotter the rhetoric gets. We rely on our news media to cut through the clutter and put it all into context. But, where do the opinions end and the true reporting begin?
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The last debate
David Bauder, Associated Press: “Fox’s Wallace asks precise follow-up that makes news”
Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “Chris Wallace: Fox News’ ‘moderate’ moderator”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Chris Wallace just brought us the closest thing we’ve seen to a normal debate”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Focused and insistent, Chris Wallace plays role of America’s hall monitor”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Chris Wallace puts some oomph into ‘fair and balanced’”
Rebecca Shapiro, Huffington Post: “CNN’s Van Jones on Donald Trump: ‘You can’t polish thisturd’”
Rebecca Shapiro, Huffington Post: “Rachel Maddow’s reaction to Trump campaign debate spin is priceless”
David Leonhardt, New York Times: “The debates were a failure of journalism”
How we watched the debates
Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “Final Trump-Clinton debate averages more than 71 million viewers”
Jill Serjeant, Reuters: “Final presidential debate draws 72 million viewers”
Cynthia Littleton, Variety: “Donald Trump’s Facebook Live debate coverage previews his TV ambitions”
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “These front pages capture what it was like to watch the final debate”
Hadas Gold, Politico: “Facebook: Debate-related videos watched 3.3 billion times”
Other notable coverage
Jasmine C. Lee & Kevin Quealy, New York Times: “The 281 people, places and things Donald Trump has insulted on Twitter: A complete list”
What Facebook is pushing
Deepa Seetharaman, Wall Street Journal: “Facebook employees pushed to remove Trump’s posts as hate speech”
Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian: “Zuckerbergproves he is Facebook’s editor by allowing Trump’s hate speech”
Mathew Ingram, Fortune: “Facebook says it still isn’t a media company despite deciding what’s newsworthy”
Jessica Conditt, Engadget: “Facebook employees argued to ban Trump’s posts over hate speech”
Anti-media blowback
Anti-Defamation League: “ADLtask force issues report detailing widespread anti-Semitic harassment of journalists on Twitter during 2016 campaign”
Kelsey Sutton, POLITICO: “Study: anti-Semitic hate speech against journalists has intensified throughout the 2016 election”
Kelsey Sutton, POLITICO: “Trump’s treatment of the press ‘erodes our democracy around the edges’”
Rosie Gray, BuzzFeed: “The alt-right has adopted an old Nazi term for reporters”
Ben Schreckinger, POLITICO: “Trump crowds rain hate on the press”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Swastika and jeers greet reporters on Donald Trump trail”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Report: No, Trump didn’t cause anti-Semitic attacks on journalists. But…”
Paul Fahri, Washington Post: “The press always got booed at Trump rallies. But now this aggression is menacing.”
Covering the electorate
Michael Barthel, Jeffrey Gottfried & Kristine Lu, Pew Research Center: “Trump, Clinton supporters differ on how media should cover controversial statements”
Lee Siegel, Columbia Journalism Review: “How the media covers the ‘deplorables’”
David Uberti, Columbia Journalism Review: “CNN’s pro-Trump posse clouds its journalism”
Kristin Hare, Poynter: “Huffington Post is raising money for groups of people Trump has insulted”
Sophie Kleeman, Gizmodo: “Facebook employees threatened to quit over Trump: report”
Craig Silverman, Lauren Strapagiel, Hamza Shaban, Ellie Hall & Jeremy Singer-Vine, BuzzFeed: “Hyperpartisan Facebook pages are pushing false and misleading information at an alarming rate”
Covering the Election
Darren Samuelsohn & Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “Media vulnerable to Election Night cyber attack”
Joseph Lichterman, Nieman Lab: “The New York Times is using a Facebook Messenger bot to sent out election updates”
Benjamin Mullin, Poynter: “The Washington Post will use automation to help cover the election”
Catalina Albeanu, Journalism.co.uk: “ProPublica launches initiative to help newsrooms cover voting issues on Election Day”
Ricardo Bilton, Nieman Journalism Lab: “Electionland, a joint project between ProPublica and six other orgs, will cover Election Day voting issues”
Missouri School of Journalism: “School to join national reporting network for 2016 election”
If Trump loses…
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “If Trump loses, the news media should break the addiction. But can they?”
Frank Bruni, New York Times: “The media’s moment of truth”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Presidential campaigns haven’t agreed to ‘acceptable’ post-election press access”
Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “WHCA appeals to Clinton and Trump campaigns on press access
