By Uchenna Ekwo Reactions to the mass shooting at the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland last Thursday were expectedly mixed. With four journalists and staff member of the Capital Gazette dead, some media pundits were quick to blame the shooting on Trump’s rhetoric about “fake news.” A Reuters…
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By Uchenna Ekwo It is easy for Trump’s critics to label him as racist, narcissistic, ignorant, bigot, arrogant, misogynist, controversial, and suffering from intellectual disability and so on. Regardless of the opinion of his detractors, what is clear is that Trump is not stupid. For all that media and political pundits may…
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By Uchenna Ekwo When President Donald Trump threatened in August last year to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangered the United States, little did he know that journalist Michael Wolff would use his exact same words as a book title to detonate a literary missile that…
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A regular observer of the daily media briefing of Trump White House’s Press Secretary, first, Sean Spicer and now Sarah Huckabee Sanders can confirm the difficulty in balancing the role of serving an unusual president, an inquisitive press corps, and wary citizens of the United States and indeed the world.…
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