The Legal War on Journalism
The Kicker12 Mar 2025

The Legal War on Journalism

Over the past several months, Donald Trump has mounted a series of legal attacks against the media, including a libel case against ABC, an FCC investigation into CBS, and a lawsuit accusing an Iowa pollster (and the newspaper that publishes her) of “election interference.” The sometimes far-fetched claims in these cases notwithstanding, the maneuvers are having an effect. The parent company of ABC settled the libel case, over the objections of many news staffers, and CBS has turned over inter...

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On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast

On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast

On this week’s episode, Pete talks with CJR Editor and Publisher Kyle Pope about the deluge of news regarding Brett Kavanaugh and Rod Rosenstein that dominated the beginning of the week. (Note: The po...

27 Sep 201825min

On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson

On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson

On this week’s episode, Pete talks with CJR Digital Editor Nausicaa Renner about the recent decision by both Harper’s and The New York Review of Books to publish first-person accounts written by men a...

20 Sep 201834min

On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq

On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq

On this week’s episode, Pete talks with CJR Tow Editor Sam Thielman about the coverage of Bob Woodward’s blockbuster book, Fear: Trump in the White House. In taking the Trump presidency as his subject...

13 Sep 201822min

Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar

Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar

On this week’s episode, Pete talks with Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, about the conviction of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The two Reuters reporters were sentence...

6 Sep 201825min

Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN

Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN

Managing Editor Betsy Morais and Senior Staff Writer Alexandria Neason join Pete to talk about the deluge of coverage following John McCain’s death. Why was the Arizona senator beloved by much of the ...

30 Aug 201818min

Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour

Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour

On this week’s episode, Pete is joined by Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia, to discuss the reaction to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ban on reporters at two recen...

23 Aug 201828min

Were all the free press editorials worth it?

Were all the free press editorials worth it?

On this week’s episode, Pete is joined by CJR Editor and Publisher Kyle Pope to discuss the flood of editorials celebrating journalism in the face of attacks by the president. Were they a worthy defen...

17 Aug 201824min

Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets

Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets

On this week’s episode, Pete is joined by former CJR staff writer and The Kicker’s founding host David Uberti to discuss the removal of Infowars’s content from tech platforms. Why did it take so long,...

9 Aug 201822min

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