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Politico Hits Vox for ‘Nerf ball’ Obama Interview

This week, Ezra Klein’s “explainer” news site Vox scored an interview with President Obama. Given that Vox is not yet a year old, one might expect some backbiting from the more established media outlets that did not score the big interview.

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Obama Complains About Fox News And Partisan Media

President Obama is known for his frequent appearances on 60 Minutes. But he’s encouraging future presidents to “try to bypass the traditional venues that create divisions and try to find new venues within this new media that are quirkier, less predictable.”

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Blue State Blues: Why Ezra Klein is Minimizing Radical Islam

By deflecting attention from the cartoons, Klein is actually trying to protect Western ideas about the state, the individual, and freedom. Yet he cannot bring himself to identify the threat to those ideas, because doing so would mean admitting that the multicultural project, to which the left is politically wedded, has failed.

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49 Times Vox Got It Wrong in 2014

Deadspin summarizes the situation bluntly: “Vox repeatedly crapped the bed in 2014.” This is followed by a list with 46 examples of corrections to Vox stories. As you’ll see below, Deadspin left out a few.