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Why Fox News Can't Afford to Quit Donald Trump
Disinformation about the election’s outcome is desired by Fox’s viewers, not forced upon them.
Peter Maass
Peter Maass is a senior editor who has written about war, media, and national security for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He reported on both civilians and combatants during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of "Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War," an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and he wrote "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil." He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. He has taught writing at Princeton and Columbia universities, and had fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and the American Academy in Berlin. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in New York City.
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Election 2020
As Trump Is Defeated, the Murdochs Try to Dodge Backlash for Fox News
The Murdoch family, owners of Fox News, oversaw a pivot against President Trump as his defeat loomed.
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When We Talk About Fox News, We Need to Talk About the Murdoch Family Too
The Murdochs own Fox News but rarely get the scrutiny they deserve for bankrolling racism and hatred.
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Louise Glück Should Refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here's Why.
The Swedish Academy, which selects the Nobel winner, is a corrupt institution that has tolerated genocide denial and sexual assault.
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Trump Built His Own Green Zone. He Got the Wall He Deserves.
Concrete barriers have been placed around the White House, an echo of the Green Zone in Iraq where U.S. officials lived in fear behind walls.
A Prize for Lies
The King of Sweden Gives Peter Handke a Disgraceful Nobel Prize
Protesters gathered in central Stockholm to bear witness to the endorsement of genocide denialism by the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A Prize for Lies
Nobel Winner Peter Handke Compared My Questions About Genocide in Bosnia to a “Calligraphy of Shit”
At a press conference, Peter Handke refused to answer my questions about the Bosnian genocide, saying they were “empty” and “ignorant.”
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The Nobel Prize, a Rape Camp in Bosnia, and Peter Handke
When Peter Handke visited Bosnia in 1998, he stayed at a horrifying landmark: a hotel used by Serbs during the war as a rape camp.
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Stockholm Syndrome: The Nobel Prize Organization Is Now Fully Engaged in the Business of Genocide Denial
The Swedish Academy, which chose Peter Handke for the Nobel literature prize, issued a letter casting his Bosnia war books as reasonable.
A Prize for Lies
Peter Handke Won the Nobel Prize After Two Jurors Fell for a Conspiracy Theory About the Bosnia War
The Nobel jurors relied on two books that defend Handke by citing a theory that the Serb genocide of Muslims was a myth created by a PR firm.