Meet the Press: Exemplary of misleading news
Each week the Sunday News Show “Meet the Press (MTP)” opens by describing itself as: “The longest running show in
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Richard E. Vatz https://wp.towson.edu/vatz/ is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political rhetoric at Towson University and author of The Only Authentic of Persuasion: the Agenda-Spin Model (Bookwrights House, 2024) and over 200 other works, essays, lectures, and op-eds. He is the benefactor of the Richard E. Vatz Best Debater Award at Towson. The Van Bokkelen Auditorium at Towson University has been named after him.
Author: Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Waldorf Astoria Washington, D.C.: This year: A bomb matched only by CNN’s juvenile coverage
A president’s speech at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is supposed to be light and funny and self-deprecating. Friday’s speech
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Puncturing political clichés; The most resilient undisputed cliché of all
The American political lexicon is filled with clichés, of which some are regularly the object of ridicule, while others are
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Maryland’s Democratic Party (and the national party) very accepting of Anti-Semitism: Case in point, Rep. Jamie Raskin
Rep. Jamie Raskin is a longtime political office-holder in Maryland (for almost a decade) for the state’s 8th congressional district.
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Not too early to support the pre-eminent presidential ticket for 2028: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and fmr. Gov. Nikki Haley
Please accept my premise that there is not a serious current Democratic politician who can effectively be in presidential or
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Fie on the Southern Poverty Law Center: Betrayal of trust and a long relationship
Confession: I am a conservative who has been a devotee of the Southern Poverty Law Center since the 1970s. I
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Primary elections, the end of centrist candidates?; Hope for reversing the trend per Sun columnist Bobby Zirkin
Primary elections are the Fool’s gold of democracy: they produce undemocratic results; they attract multitudes of unqualified and often radical
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CBS ’60 Minutes’ excellent interview with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu
If you want to see an extraordinarily excellent interview and an incredible interviewer, watch “60 Minutes” interview May 10, 2026,
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The perhaps deservedly permanent fall from grace of Saturday Night Live
Criticizing an institution is fraught with interpersonal danger. Lifelong defenders will defend it without considering the merits of your critique.
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Trump trumps Norah O’Donnell on humiliating ’60 Minutes,’ Sunday, April 26, 2026
“60 Minutes” has been my favorite news analysis show, particularly in the years when it was produced by my former
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