“But her emails.” Following the 2016 presidential election, those words entered American media lore as shorthand for one of the most grievous errors made by the press in its coverage of the campaign: that it overhyped Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to balance out Donald Trump’s more serious indiscretions and dodge accusations of partisanship. As 2020 loomed, media-watchers feared a repeat performance. In September, when we first learned that Trump had asked the president of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, such fears started to crystallize—with “Hunter Biden had ties to a dodgy Ukrainian gas company while his dad oversaw Ukraine policy” playing the “emails” role. James Fallows fretted, in a widely shared essay in The Atlantic, that Hunter was “Patient Zero of the next false-equivalence epidemic.” Writing for The Bulwark, Tim Miller called the Bidens storyline a “nontroversy” that the media would nonetheless lap up. Some of the early coverage seemed to prove their points. Fast forward four months, and a full-blown crisis of false equivalence has not materialized—at least, not yet. Yesterday—as Pam Bondi, a member of the defense team in Trump’s impeachment trial, laced into the Bidens on the Senate floor—the press faced a fresh test of that proposition. Its coverage was not perfect. (Some toplines relayed Bondi’s claims of corruption without noting that they’ve been debunked; others used insufficiently authoritative framing—“Trump says x, Biden says y”—to... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-01-28 13:08:46 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has announced The Harpy by Megan Hunter (Picador) and Jasbinder Bilan's Tamarind & The Star of Ishta (Chicken House) as its books of the month for September. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 16:53:41 UTC ]
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Early yesterday morning, Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart and the Trump campaign, was drinking coffee on the deck of a $35-million yacht off the coast of Connecticut—as populist rabble-rousers are wont to do—when federal agents came on board and arrested him. Bannon stands accused of... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-08-21 12:31:00 UTC ]
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Castlefield has scooped the rights to adapt Cara Hunter's DI Fawley crime novels into a TV drama. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 08:58:00 UTC ]
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Roberto Calasso posits that ancient hunting myths help illuminate the modern mind. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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In late March, Ryan Grim, of The Intercept, published a story on Tara Reade, a former staffer in Joe Biden’s Senate office. She was one of several women who had come forward to say that Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, had, in past encounters, touched them inappropriately. Grim... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-01 12:33:41 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has struck a deal for two new Robert Hunter thrillers by author Chris Carter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 09:09:44 UTC ]
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“I’m fascinated by stories of how the various plant specimens we take for granted today were originally discovered,” says the actor, whose latest book is “Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-12-05 10:00:03 UTC ]
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Steven Levingston explores how an unlikely pair overcame mutual skepticism to work together. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-04 14:20:30 UTC ]
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This is Going to Hurt for The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Adam Kay’s junior doctor memoir’s haul of Weekly E-Book Ranking number ones has surpassed that of the Holocaust-set love story. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cara Hunter's No Way Out (Viking) has defeated Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) at the top of the Weekly E-Book Ranking, after the junior doctor memoir's 12-week reign. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bug bounty programs are a popular way for tech companies to track down problems with their products without having to spend large sums of money on dedicated research teams. Microsoft is one of the big names with such a program, and it has just announced that it is increasing the payouts it... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Interweaving stories from her own life with historical examples, Clare Hunter’s non-fiction début reframes needle-work as a powerful and political medium. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador will publish two more novels from The End We Start From author Megan Hunter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Week in Libraries, June 15, 2018: The scholarly publishing community mourns Elsevier's Karen Hunter; The EU will vote next week on a controversial change to copyright law; Net neutrality sunsets, but the fight goes on. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elsevier officials have announced that Karen Hunter, who retired in 2010 as Elsevier's senior v-p of global academic and customer relations, has died. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Isobel Hunter has been appointed as the first chief executive of the Society of Chief Librarians. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retailers have unleashed a range of sales offers to lure in shoppers, both in-store and online. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has won an auction to publish the memoir of former US vice president Joe Biden in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first book in the seven-figure, three-book deal Biden signed with Flatiron Books has a title and a publication date. 'Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose' is set for November. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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