Federal judge: FBI can keep secret rules on warrantless espionage of reporters
“Whether it’s the Obama administration or the Trump administration, the government should not be able to keep its rules for spying on journalists without a court order secret.”
STUDY: How TV news ignores the prescription drug price problem
A Media Matters review of weekday evening news coverage reveals the evening programs largely ignored the problem of escalating prescription drug prices.
A small act of scientific civil disobedience
Big science publications put important peer-reviewed research behind expensive paywalls. But some scientists have found creative ways around them.
Orwell, radioactive pigs, Godzilla, and, of course, Trump
George Orwell is not the only journalist to turn iconoclastic prophet.
U.S. attorney Preet Bharara was investigating Fox News when Trump fired him
Reports indicate Trump may pick one of Roger Ailes’ former lawyers to replace Bharara.
The press is essential, whether presidents like it or not
If you want to make journalism better, subscribe to your local paper.
Trump’s Twitter distraction
The wiretap tweet was not crazy or manic – it was strategic.
Maitreya: The coming one for all humanity
A message of hope.
Deniers rally conservatives to dismiss climate science as “fake news” and share Breitbart stories...
A whole panel was created called “Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda – and What President Trump Plans To Do About it.”
Progressive or Bust’s provocative meme assaults liberals’ hypocrisy
Rather than demean their civil rights struggle (which, by MLK’s design, enlisted many whites), the meme means to honor it as a needed and noble one.