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'''Dana T. Milbank''' (born ], ]) is a political reporter for '']''. He is a graduate of ], where he was a member of ], the Progressive Party of the ] and the secret society ].<ref>Lloyd Grove, "Yale Bones Connect Kerry, Bush", '']'', March 4, 2004</ref> <ref>Deborah Mitchell, "A Rich Bounty, Gone For Good", '']'', January 28, 2001</ref> <ref>"Kerry versus Bush: Eight is Enough", ], March 4, 2004.</ref>
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'''Dana Timothy Milbank''' (born April 27, 1968)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lippman |first=Daniel |date=2017-04-27 |title=BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: WaPo columnist Dana Milbank, the pride of Merrick, NY |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/playbook-birthday-dana-milbank-237673 |access-date=2023-11-17 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/fashion/weddings/anna-greenberg-dana-milbank.html | title=Anna Greenberg, Dana Milbank | work=The New York Times | date=28 May 2017 }}</ref> is an American author and columnist for '']''. He has written books about ], ], ], ], and the ]. He has appeared as a pundit on various shows.


==Early life and education==
⚫ Milbank covered the ] and the ]. He also covered ] ]'s first term in office. In 2001, a ] penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the ] generated controversy within conservative circles.<ref>Christopher Cooper, , '']'', March 10, 2005</ref> According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication."<ref>Bryan Keefer, , '']''</ref>
Milbank was born to a ] family,<ref name=Sukkot>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-magic-of-sukkot/2014/10/14/1a2a9614-53c8-11e4-ba4b-f6333e2c0453_story.html|newspaper=]|title=The magic of Sukkot|first=Dana|last=Milbank|date=October 14, 2014}}</ref> the son of Ann C. and Mark A. Milbank.<ref name=Sukkot/><ref name=NYTWedding>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/style/weddings-d-l-depasquale-dana-t-milbank.html | work=] | title=WEDDINGS; D. L. DePasquale, Dana T. Milbank | date=October 17, 1993}}</ref> He is a graduate of ], where he was a member of ], the Progressive Party of the ] and the secret society ].<ref>{{cite news |first=Lloyd |last=Grove |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2004/03/04/2004-03-04_yale_bones_connect_bush__ker.html |title=Yale Bones Connect Kerry, Bush |newspaper=] |date=March 4, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222022929/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2004/03/04/2004-03-04_yale_bones_connect_bush__ker.html |archive-date=February 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Deborah|last=Mitchell|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/rich-bounty-good-article-1.902485|title=A Rich Bounty, Gone For Good|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=January 28, 2001}}</ref> He is a graduate of ] in ].


==Career==
⚫ As a reporter for ''The Washington Post'', Milbank writes "Washington Sketch", an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for '']'' and Congress for '']''.
⚫ Milbank covered the ] and the ]. He also covered ] ]'s first term in office. After Bush won the 2000 election, ] asked ''The Washington Post'' not to assign Milbank to cover White House news.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Nicholas|last=Confessore|author-link=Nicholas Confessore|url=http://prospect.org/article/beat-press-1|date=February 15, 2002|title=Beat the Press: Does the White House have a blacklist?|magazine=]}}</ref> In 2001, a ] penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the ] generated controversy within conservative circles.<ref>{{cite news|first=Christopher|last=Cooper|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB111041711828575367|title=Bloggers Parse Pool Reportage On Bush Doings|work=]|date=March 10, 2005}}</ref> According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Bryan|last=Keefer|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_water_cooler/dana_milbank_on_covering_the_w.php|title=Dana Milbank on Covering the White House and Nicknames We Can't Publish|magazine=]|date=February 20, 2004}}</ref>
⚫ Milbank writes "Washington Sketch" for the ], an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for '']'' and Congress for '']''.


Milbank was criticized for a July 30, 2008 article<ref>{{cite news|first=Dana|last=Milbank|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html|title=President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 30, 2008}}</ref> in which, in part by using snippets of quotations, he portrayed ] as being presumptuous.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/iwashington-posti-fans-ou_n_115861.html,|title=Washington Post Fuels Outrage After Misquoting Obama|first=Jason|last=Linkins|date=July 30, 2008|work=]|access-date=November 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Higher Quality Smears, Please|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206260.php|first=Josh|last=Marshall|author-link=Josh Marshall|work=]|date=July 31, 2008|access-date=August 6, 2008|archive-date=August 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080806054257/http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206260.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> A few days later ]'s ] stated that Milbank would not be allowed back onto his show, which Milbank had appeared on since 2004, until Milbank submitted "a correction or an explanation."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26037831|title='Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday, August 4|work=NBC News|access-date=November 15, 2014|date=August 4, 2008}}</ref> However, Milbank had apparently already left Olbermann's show for another show on ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0808/WaPos_Milbank_leaves_Countdown_.html|title=WaPo's Milbank leaves "Countdown"|first=Michael|last=Calderon|work=]|access-date=November 15, 2014|date=August 5, 2008}}</ref>
Milbank is the author of ''Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush--Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail''. A new book, ''Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government'', was published by ] in January 2008.<ref></ref>
Milbank stated that he has been dissatisfied since he was criticized by Olbermann's staff over making a positive comment about ], a ] senior advisor, and as a result had already been negotiating with CNN.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0808/Milbanks_Move.html|title=Milbank's move|first=Michael|last=Calderon|work=Politico|access-date=November 15, 2014|date=August 6, 2008}}</ref>


Milbank and ] appeared in a series of humor videos called "Mouthpiece Theater" which appeared on ''The Washington Post'''s website. An outcry followed a video in which, during a discussion of the White House "]", they chose new brands for a number of people, including "Mad Bitch Beer" for ]. Both men apologized for the video and the series was canceled.<ref>{{cite news|author-link=Howard Kurtz|first=Howard|last=Kurtz|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080502394.html|title=Post's Video 'Theater' Ends Its Run: Hosts Apologize for Off-Color Clinton Joke|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 6, 2009}}</ref>
Milbank was criticized for a July 2008 article that called ] "presumptuous" <ref></ref> and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann stated that Milbank would not be allowed back onto the program unless he wrote a complete retraction. <ref></ref>

In a December 4, 2021 ], Milbank wrote that overall US media sentiment for President ] is as bad as, if not worse than, it was for then-President ]. He used data from the analytics company Forge.ai to mine through more than 200,000 articles from 65 different news sources to create a "sentiment analysis" of pro or con coverage. The comparison was done of the first 11 months of the Trump administration versus the same timeframe of the Biden term. His analysis showed that Biden had had mainly positive coverage for the first three months of the year, but the press covered Biden more harshly than Trump in the previous four months.<ref>{{cite news |last=Milbank |first=Dana |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/ |title=Opinion: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here's proof. |newspaper=] |date=2021-12-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204000630/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/ |archivedate=2021-12-04 |accessdate=2021-12-08 }}</ref> ], of '']'', questioned Milbank's conclusion.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/585215-do-the-media-really-treat-biden-worse-than-trump/ | title=Do the media really treat Biden worse than Trump? | date=10 December 2021 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1993, Milbank married Donna Lynn DePasquale in an interfaith Jewish and Roman Catholic ceremony.<ref name=NYTWedding /> After that marriage ended in divorce, in 2017 he married Anna Greenberg, daughter of Democratic pollster ] and stepdaughter of Democratic Congresswoman ] (]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/fashion/weddings/anna-greenberg-dana-milbank.html?nytmobile=0|title=Anna Greenberg, Dana Milbank|access-date=May 31, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=May 28, 2017}}</ref>

==Books==
Milbank is the author of ''Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush—Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail''.

''Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government'' was published by ] in January 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114318/homo-politicus-by-dana-milbank/|title=Homo Politicus by Dana Milbank|website=PenguinRandomHouse.com|publisher=]}}</ref>

In 2010, ] released Milbank's polemic biography of conservative pundit ]: ''Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America,''<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-milbank/post_996_b_749750.html|work = HuffPost|title = Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message|first = Dana|last = Milbank|date = October 5, 2010}}</ref> which a review in Milbank's paper, ''The Washington Post'', said was a "droll, take-no-prisoners account of the nation's most audacious conspiracy-spinner."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper = The Washington Post|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/15/AR2010101503609.html|title = Dana Milbank's Glenn Beck book "Tears of a Clown," reviewed by David Oshinsky|first = David|last = Oshinsky|date = October 17, 2010}}</ref>

In 2022, Milbank authored ''The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690605/the-destructionists-by-dana-milbank/|title=The Destructionists by Dana Milbank: 9780385548137 &#124; PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|accessdate=12 May 2023}}</ref>

==Political views==
Milbank has stated that his policy on ]s is to vote for the best candidate who is not on the ballot. He voted for ] in 2000, ] in 2004, and ] in 2008. He explained that his approach allows him to "go through the exercise of who would be a good president" while avoiding committing to one candidate or another in the race.<ref name=milbankqanda>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/02/05/DI2010020502649.html|title=Dana Milbank on Scott Brown, John McCain, more|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 8, 2010|first=Dana|last=Milbank}}</ref>

Greg Marx, associate editor of the '']'', describes Milbank as "extravagantly contrarian".<ref name="Marx">{{cite magazine|first=Greg|last=Marx|url=https://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/dana_milbank_ideologue.php|title=Dana Milbank, Ideologue: The WaPo columnist's latest reflects the press bias for action|date=June 24, 2010|magazine=Columbia Journalism Review}}</ref> ] journalism professor ] wrote of "Milbank's insistence on characterizing political debate as consisting of two unreasonable poles, and himself as a truth-teller caught in the middle — a posture so habitual and inflexible that it has become an ideology".<ref name="Marx"/>

Milbank has criticized the growth of the ], writing in 2011 that the event "was a minor annoyance for years, when it was a 'nerd prom' for journalists and a few minor celebrities. But, as with so much else in this town, the event has spun out of control. Now, awash in lobbyist and corporate money, it is another display of Washington's excesses."<ref>{{cite news|first=Dana|last=Milbank|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how_the_journalist_prom_got_out_of_control/2011/04/28/AFla9PCF_story.html?nav=rss_|title=How the journalist prom got out of control|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Alec|last=Jacobs|url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/a-contrarians-point-of-view-on-whcd/38796|title=A Contrarian's Point of View on WHCD|work=]|date=April 29, 2011}}</ref>


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American journalist (born 1968)
Dana Milbank
BornDana Timothy Milbank
(1968-04-27) April 27, 1968 (age 56)
EducationYale University (BA)
Spouses
  • Donna DePasquale ​ ​(m. 1993; div. 2015)​
  • Anna Greenberg ​(m. 2017)​

Dana Timothy Milbank (born April 27, 1968) is an American author and columnist for The Washington Post. He has written books about Al Gore, George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, American politics, and the Republican Party. He has appeared as a pundit on various shows.

Early life and education

Milbank was born to a Jewish family, the son of Ann C. and Mark A. Milbank. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He is a graduate of Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York.

Career

Milbank covered the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections. He also covered President George W. Bush's first term in office. After Bush won the 2000 election, Karl Rove asked The Washington Post not to assign Milbank to cover White House news. In 2001, a pool report penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the U.S. Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles. According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication."

Milbank writes "Washington Sketch" for the Post, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for The New Republic and Congress for The Wall Street Journal.

Milbank was criticized for a July 30, 2008 article in which, in part by using snippets of quotations, he portrayed Barack Obama as being presumptuous. A few days later MSNBC's Keith Olbermann stated that Milbank would not be allowed back onto his show, which Milbank had appeared on since 2004, until Milbank submitted "a correction or an explanation." However, Milbank had apparently already left Olbermann's show for another show on CNN. Milbank stated that he has been dissatisfied since he was criticized by Olbermann's staff over making a positive comment about Charlie Black, a John McCain senior advisor, and as a result had already been negotiating with CNN.

Milbank and Chris Cillizza appeared in a series of humor videos called "Mouthpiece Theater" which appeared on The Washington Post's website. An outcry followed a video in which, during a discussion of the White House "Beer Summit", they chose new brands for a number of people, including "Mad Bitch Beer" for Hillary Clinton. Both men apologized for the video and the series was canceled.

In a December 4, 2021 Op-ed, Milbank wrote that overall US media sentiment for President Joe Biden is as bad as, if not worse than, it was for then-President Donald Trump. He used data from the analytics company Forge.ai to mine through more than 200,000 articles from 65 different news sources to create a "sentiment analysis" of pro or con coverage. The comparison was done of the first 11 months of the Trump administration versus the same timeframe of the Biden term. His analysis showed that Biden had had mainly positive coverage for the first three months of the year, but the press covered Biden more harshly than Trump in the previous four months. Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight, questioned Milbank's conclusion.

Personal life

In 1993, Milbank married Donna Lynn DePasquale in an interfaith Jewish and Roman Catholic ceremony. After that marriage ended in divorce, in 2017 he married Anna Greenberg, daughter of Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and stepdaughter of Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT).

Books

Milbank is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush—Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail.

Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government was published by Random House in January 2008.

In 2010, Doubleday released Milbank's polemic biography of conservative pundit Glenn Beck: Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, which a review in Milbank's paper, The Washington Post, said was a "droll, take-no-prisoners account of the nation's most audacious conspiracy-spinner."

In 2022, Milbank authored The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party.

Political views

Milbank has stated that his policy on United States presidential elections is to vote for the best candidate who is not on the ballot. He voted for John McCain in 2000, Chuck Hagel in 2004, and Michael Bloomberg in 2008. He explained that his approach allows him to "go through the exercise of who would be a good president" while avoiding committing to one candidate or another in the race.

Greg Marx, associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, describes Milbank as "extravagantly contrarian". New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen wrote of "Milbank's insistence on characterizing political debate as consisting of two unreasonable poles, and himself as a truth-teller caught in the middle — a posture so habitual and inflexible that it has become an ideology".

Milbank has criticized the growth of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, writing in 2011 that the event "was a minor annoyance for years, when it was a 'nerd prom' for journalists and a few minor celebrities. But, as with so much else in this town, the event has spun out of control. Now, awash in lobbyist and corporate money, it is another display of Washington's excesses."

References

  1. Lippman, Daniel (2017-04-27). "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: WaPo columnist Dana Milbank, the pride of Merrick, NY". POLITICO. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  2. "Anna Greenberg, Dana Milbank". The New York Times. 28 May 2017.
  3. ^ Milbank, Dana (October 14, 2014). "The magic of Sukkot". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ "WEDDINGS; D. L. DePasquale, Dana T. Milbank". The New York Times. October 17, 1993.
  5. Grove, Lloyd (March 4, 2004). "Yale Bones Connect Kerry, Bush". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011.
  6. Mitchell, Deborah (January 28, 2001). "A Rich Bounty, Gone For Good". New York Daily News.
  7. Confessore, Nicholas (February 15, 2002). "Beat the Press: Does the White House have a blacklist?". The American Prospect.
  8. Cooper, Christopher (March 10, 2005). "Bloggers Parse Pool Reportage On Bush Doings". The Wall Street Journal.
  9. Keefer, Bryan (February 20, 2004). "Dana Milbank on Covering the White House and Nicknames We Can't Publish". Columbia Journalism Review.
  10. Milbank, Dana (July 30, 2008). "President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour". The Washington Post.
  11. Linkins, Jason (July 30, 2008). "Washington Post Fuels Outrage After Misquoting Obama". HuffPost. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
  12. Marshall, Josh (July 31, 2008). "Higher Quality Smears, Please". Talking Points Memo. Archived from the original on August 6, 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2008.
  13. "'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday, August 4". NBC News. August 4, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
  14. Calderon, Michael (August 5, 2008). "WaPo's Milbank leaves "Countdown"". Politico. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
  15. Calderon, Michael (August 6, 2008). "Milbank's move". Politico. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
  16. Kurtz, Howard (August 6, 2009). "Post's Video 'Theater' Ends Its Run: Hosts Apologize for Off-Color Clinton Joke". The Washington Post.
  17. Milbank, Dana (2021-12-04). "Opinion: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here's proof". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2021-12-04. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  18. "Do the media really treat Biden worse than Trump?". 10 December 2021.
  19. "Anna Greenberg, Dana Milbank". The New York Times. May 28, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  20. "Homo Politicus by Dana Milbank". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Penguin Random House.
  21. Milbank, Dana (October 5, 2010). "Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message". HuffPost.
  22. Oshinsky, David (October 17, 2010). "Dana Milbank's Glenn Beck book "Tears of a Clown," reviewed by David Oshinsky". The Washington Post.
  23. "The Destructionists by Dana Milbank: 9780385548137 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  24. Milbank, Dana (February 8, 2010). "Dana Milbank on Scott Brown, John McCain, more". The Washington Post.
  25. ^ Marx, Greg (June 24, 2010). "Dana Milbank, Ideologue: The WaPo columnist's latest reflects the press bias for action". Columbia Journalism Review.
  26. Milbank, Dana (April 29, 2011). "How the journalist prom got out of control". The Washington Post.
  27. Jacobs, Alec (April 29, 2011). "A Contrarian's Point of View on WHCD". Adweek.

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