Espresso Pundit

05/08/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/08/blurring-the-lines.html

The Republic is trying to draw a brighter line between its News and Opinion sections by adding banners over the opinion pieces. I'm sympathetic to this problem. After all, it's difficult to lay out a website in a way that...

03/08/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/08/the-most-disgusting-tweet-.html

This used to be the most disgusting Tweet in my files. Set aside the fact that Mark Curtis doesn't know the difference between "sew" and "sow" and focus on what Curtis is saying. He's saying that the dead hunter DESERVED...

03/08/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/08/tucson-radio.html

I had an opportunity to be on KVOI with Matt Neely and Brush Ash. It went a little something like this. Espresso WUT 7-28-20

16/07/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/07/advancing-the-narrative.html

Pop Quiz: You are an Arizona Republic Reporter looking to explain the recent surge in COVID19 cases and you see this paragraph in a Los Angeles Times article. In what’s considered the first systematic look at the question, a team...

16/07/2020

The Columbia Journalism Review is the most respected source for coverage of the profession of journalism. CJR recently decried the behavior of the journalists covering the President. The article included this quote. Craig Copetas, a longtime reporter at the Wall...

05/03/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/03/on-signs-the-media-loss-and-reversion-to-the-mean-.html

28/02/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/02/fundamentally-dishonest.html

28/02/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/02/more-cuts-coming-to-gannett.html

If you work at a newspaper, then this is probably bad news. More cuts are coming. Reed says that by the end of Q1 (March 31), Gannett will have made cuts that add up to “over $60 million in annualized...

28/02/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/02/what-part-of-never-dont-you-understand.html

I've pointed out that the Arizona Republic's position of "Conservative Columnist" is vacant. Bob Robb has held the position for 30 years and uses the space to discuss arcane economic policies--and to tell people how smart his is*. For all...

06/02/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/02/decent-and-applaudable.html

The Republic's Elvia Diaz LOVES this. "Shakira and Jennifer Lopez didn’t just bring Latina star power to Sunday’s halftime Super Bowl in Miami. They stitched the American dream back to life, one hip shake and pole dance at a time....

06/02/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/02/help-wanted-conservative-columnist-for-arizona-republic.html

The Commentariat has moved on from the debacle in Iowa to the State of the Union Address. Pundits on the right are calling it "Magnificent" and "A Victory Lap." Meanwhile opinion leaders on the left fume that it was "a...

06/02/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/02/turning-point.html

I watched the SOTU at Turning Point's headquarters. James T. Harris was hosting. Great crowd and a lot of enthusiasm.

30/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/real-journalism.html

Check out this tweet from San Francisco Chronicle Reporter Audrey Cooper. That's right. If a public official is required to live in his district and there is evidence that his residence is a sham then real journalists will investigate. Meanwhile...

30/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/right-on-cue-montini-switches-narratives-.html

17/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/shes-still-not-that-in-to-you.html

I'm sure that you have seen this. Earlier this week, the mainstream media were whining that Stephanie Grisham hasn't been holding press conferences. Now we see Senator McSally's response. In the old days, elected officials had to deal with media...

17/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/the-mean-kids.html

Yesterday, I pointed out that when the President appointed Arizonan Stephanie Grisham as his spokesperson, the Republic used the appointment as an opportunity criticize her. Unfortunately, the Grisham case is not unique. The Arizona Republic has a culture of cruelty....

16/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/the-donkey-in-the-room.html

Thoughts and prayers for Kirkpatrick. So are we waiting for a major announcement from Grijalva?

15/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/shes-just-not-that-into-you-.html

The Republic Twitter team is really upset by this. Why would the White House Press Secretary avoid the press? Two answers: Because she can and because she should. She can because media--especially print media--is largely irrelevant. In the old days...

15/01/2020

https://www.espressopundit.com/2020/01/star-reporter-covered-supervisors-raceand-then-they-appointed-him-constable.html

We have been granted an opportunity to see if anyone in the AZ media believes all the stuff that they are preaching or if it is all BS. Check out this article. Joe Ferguson, who covered local government and politics...

24/10/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/10/the-big-stick.html

It's fun to highlight mainstream media hypocrisy. Notice for example that local journalists insisted that every Republican denounce the racist comments of Rep. David Stringer. However, I have yet to see a journalist ask a Democrat to denounce the racist...

24/10/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/10/classic-laurie-roberts-column.html

Here's a classic example of a Laurie Roberts column. She summarizes a news story and then sprinkles it with the word Surprise! and considers it a column. Professional journalists like to think that their product doesn't sell because readers don't...

21/10/2019

When the media lectures us on "civility" remind them that we endured 30 years of Steve Benson

21/10/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/10/fundamentally-misinformed-.html

17/10/2019

16/10/2019

Check out the latest Laurie Roberts column in which she argues that it is OK to mistreat prisoners because, after all, they are bad guys. Seriously. I'm searching for the right way to describe her argument. I could say that...

16/10/2019

Check out this blurb from the Yellow Sheets. WELCOME TO THE BENCH, DAVID Newly-appointed appellate judge David Gass was officially sworn in today with little fanfare and no public announcement before the event. Ducey appointed Gass, a Democrat, to replace...

16/10/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/10/spot-the-fallacy.html

Brahm Resnik channels Captain Ahab with is continued obsession with Bill Montgomery. Obsession aside. Can you spot the fallacy in his argument? Here's a hint. The Hell's Angels liked the Doobie Brothers. What does that say about the Doobie Brothers....

16/10/2019

16/10/2019

Check out this Laurie Roberts Column. The headline reflects the fact that Lauri is making two* interesting points. The first point is the obvious one. Laurie has found an unlikely critic of Kelli Ward in her hometown newspaper. This is...

10/10/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/10/mugged.html

The news about Paul Peterson is quite troubling indeed. However there is one aspect of the coverage itself that I find troubling. The local media have plenty of profile pictures of Peterson. They used those pictures in the early coverage....

10/10/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/10/montini-pretends-that-he-respected-mccain.html

The Republic's EJ Montini likes to pretend that he respected John McCain. Check out today's column The reality of course, is that Montini viciously trolled McCain for decades. Do you want to know what Montini REALLY thought about McCain and...

19/09/2019

Why are the Republic Reporters Tweeting out every step of their union organization efforts?

We've all watched the Republic Newsroom's efforts to form a union and one question keeps coming up. Why are the union advocates constantly tweeting and retweeting their activities? After all, it's not like it's tit for tat. The anti-union folks...

19/09/2019

Let's not forget that Ed Buck was hero to AZ media.

Ed Buck is back in the news. Ed Buck, the California Democratic megadonor suspected in the deaths of two black men who suffered fatal crystal methamphetamine overdoses in his home 18 months apart, is now facing allegations of human trafficking...

18/09/2019

Janet Napolitano is resigning from her role as President of the UC System. University of California President Janet Napolitano, who has championed immigrant students and sexual abuse victims but whose management of the UC system has sparked criticism, announced Wednesday...

18/09/2019

https://www.espressopundit.com/2019/09/third-man-overdoses-at-ed-bucks-house.html

You have probably seen this story. Ed Buck, a Democratic donor and activist whose West Hollywood apartment was the scene of two methamphetamine overdose deaths since 2017, was arrested on Tuesday after investigators said a third man suffered an overdose...

18/09/2019

I'm sure that you saw this story. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing a censure vote from the Arizona Democratic Party, brought by progressives who deem her politics too accommodating to President Donald Trump at the expense of Democratic values. Stuff...

13/09/2019

Did you see the hit piece that Laurie Roberts did on Michele Reagan? Don't worry, no one else did either. That's why the Republic needs a union, you know, to make people read their stuff. The Republic Twitter minions spent...

03/09/2019

Republic Reporters claim that they are being tracked by "secret app."

Here's how people go from zero to crazy in a couple tweets. What? Yvonne thinks that someone paying attention to her facial expressions during meetings is "surveillance." Harris is rant is even more disturbing. He's claiming that pro-union organizers are...

03/09/2019

The Republic is in Full Meltdown