Articles by Christopher Harper
Because this column will be my last one for The Washington Times, I decided to take a look back on the more than 100 columns I have written since January 2013 to review my hits and misses.
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May 27, 2015
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The contribution scandal isn't the first time ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos apparently breached ethical guidelines.
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May 20, 2015
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As U.S. voters face 18 months of constant bombardment from pollsters, it's time to revisit the serious problem with political prognostication.
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May 13, 2015
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Few people made sense during the Baltimore riots and the indictment of six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. But David Clarke, the sheriff of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin, and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan provided two examples of those who did.
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May 6, 2015
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The juxtaposition of the riots in Baltimore this weekend as "all-news" television networks delivered extensive coverage of the White House Correspondents' Association's soiree underlined the disconnect between the press and the rest of the country.
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April 29, 2015
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The caustic attacks on NBC reporter Richard Engel about the circumstances surrounding his 2012 abduction in Syria puzzled and troubled me — until I listened to some of his comments about the Obama administration's failures, particularly in the Middle East.
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April 22, 2015
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Journalists must become more transparent about their biases in order to regain credibility with the public, particularly after recent scandals involving Rolling Stone and other news organizations.
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April 15, 2015
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Many analysts have decried Rolling Stone magazine's malfeasance about a University of Virginia rape claim, but much of the media have not recognized that this failure of journalistic ethics is far from rare.
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April 8, 2015
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In the latest abuse of journalism, "60 Minutes" and host Charlie Rose should be ashamed of an interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the brutal dictator who has led his country into a murderous civil war that has left more than 200,000 dead and more than 4 million refugees.
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April 1, 2015
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As mothers and grandfathers post family photos on Facebook and tweet occasionally, teenagers have moved on to Snapchat and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Meanwhile, millennials and GenXers are stuck somewhere in between, wondering whether LinkedIn and Google Plus are worth the time.
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March 25, 2015
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This just in! William Shakespeare got his facts wrong about the death of Julius Caesar.
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March 18, 2015
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President-in-waiting Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared arrogant, dismissive and uncomfortable when answering questions about her role in two scandals, including her private email account and the funding of her foundation.
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March 11, 2015
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In one of the most important decisions in its history, the Federal Communications Commission, a pernicious government agency set up more than 70 years ago to regulate radio interference, may undermine key aspects of the Internet.
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March 4, 2015
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In the Whack-A-Mole style of many political reporters, the pundits attacked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker with errant criticism exactly as he started to gain traction as a GOP presidential possibility.
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February 25, 2015
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As Syria and Iraq have become increasingly dangerous for reporters, a citizen journalist has provided extraordinary information from his laptop in England about what is happening in the Middle East and in other dangerous locales, such as Ukraine.
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February 18, 2015
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NBC didn't quite get it right by suspending anchorman Brian Williams for six months without pay. The network should have fired him.
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February 11, 2015
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Two liberal media icons spent much of the past week defending themselves from attacks by their fellow travelers, while conservatives chuckled as the left trashed some of its progeny.
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February 4, 2015
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The media have come up with some serious neck-snappers — as a colleague likes to call amazing events — about Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Syria: articles and analyses that rewrite history and obscure recent U.S. foreign policy.
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January 28, 2015
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Although the massacre of Jews, journalists and police officers in Paris has sparked a debate over freedom of expression — both speech and the press — few analysts have focused on the significant deterioration in such rights throughout the world.
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January 21, 2015
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The numerous errors and missteps in the reporting about the terrorist attacks in France underlined the impact of cutbacks in international bureaus for many news organizations, particularly U.S. television outlets.
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January 14, 2015
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