Alicia Shepard

If you watch Fox News, you’ll see a broad attempt to paint the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 as nothing more than peaceful “patriots,” despite endless live footage detailing the violence that aired on every news outlet, even Fox. But…

Oprah Winfrey’s landmark interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, watched by 17.1 million, almost felt like a bonus episode of Season 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown.” It certainly made the line between the scripted series and reality…

As a woman in her 60s, I have never seen so many of my female compatriots publicly trumpeting their age and even their weight as I have in the last two months. Women on neighborhood listserves, Facebook and every other public forum are all proudly…

The 2014 Afghan presidential election involved accusations of fraud, recounts, and threats of violence. Eventually there was peace. Sound familiar? Opinion contributor I was an election monitor in Afghanistan after a top candidate cried fraud in the…

The aspiring Defense secretary cost his children their privacy and forced them to relive their trauma. He chose his ambitions over protecting them. Shame on Patrick Shanahan. Only a few days after Father’s Day, the father of a once clearly disturbed…

Powerful men insult and demean women and get away with it. Stop being so nice. Time to get angry instead of letting them backpedal and apologize. Give me a break. I am so tired of men, mostly older white men with power, saying insulting things that…

Bob Woodward's drive for truth started at a young age and so did his respect for recordings as evidence. Forget the denials, he does not make stuff up. President Donald Trump and any other doubters of Bob Woodward’s reporting for his new book, …

New York Daily News carnage is the latest sign that democracy and the journalism that drives it are in trouble. Hands-off billionaires are our best hope for a rescue. HELP DESPERATELY WANTED: Multi-billionaires willing to invest in the newspaper …

Trump is a master at taunting the media with nasty nicknames. And his baiting has prompted journalists to make one mistake after another. President Donald Trump can be infuriating. Whether you love or hate him, few would disagree he’s brilliant at …

Struggling newspapers should look in the mirror and not at Craigslist creator Craig Newmark. He didn't destroy journalism. Journalism did that to itself. Craig Newmark, the clever entrepreneur behind the eponymous Craigslist, gave $20 million to the …

Cable news spent over 8.5 hours discussing Roseanne Barr's tweet. She shouldn't matter more than news that 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died in Hurricane Maria. When asked about President Trump’s reaction to ABC canceling the hit TV show Roseanne, …

Donald Trump is trying to control 'Washington Post' coverage of him by hurting owner Jeff Bezos's bottom line at Amazon. It's dangerous and un-American. Imagine British Prime Minister Theresa May each time she sees an unflattering article in The …

It’s a waste of time to be up in arms over Sinclair's one-minute promo. The real concern should be that it owns so many local TV news stations. Outrage over a one-minute Sinclair Broadcast Group media-bashing promotion is jumping across time zones …

We conveniently forgot that we are the product Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are marketing. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is a wake-up call. Attention Facebook users, all 2 billion of you. If after reading the latest news about a private company …

There's heavy security at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as classes resumed for the first time since 17 students and teachers were killed by a teenager with an AR-15, thrusting them into the center of the nation's gun debate. (Feb. 28) …

The news comes just one day after a Washington Post article in which several women accused Rose of making unwanted advances. Video provided by Newsy Newslook We are angry at the men and women who accepted the unacceptable and let it happen. We can't …

In a candid, angry new book, Hillary Clinton relives her stunning defeat to Donald Trump. She admits personal mistakes, but also lays blame on Former FBI Director James Comey. (Sept. 8) AP She's rightfully angry about press failures and says …

Sean Spicer's tenure as White House press secretary got off to a rocky start from Day One. On Trump's first full day in office, he lambasted journalists over coverage of the crowd size at the inauguration. (July 21) AP Either way, he’ll be fine. …

Christopher Ruddy talked about Donald Trump’s presidency and his administration’s relationship with the media. Open Phones

CNN says a story about the Senate's Russia investigation didn't follow the company's fact-checking procedures. Video provided by Newsy Newslook Transparency is the new objectivity. The more people understand how the news media work, the more likely …