Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Tag: journalism

US Plans to Restrict Foreign Journalists Trigger Rising Protests

Press freedom groups say the move follows crackdowns on immigrants and university researchers.

ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside...

The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.

Iran international and the money behind the narrative war

Americans usually think about confrontation with Iran in terms of sanctions, warships, nuclear sites, and diplomatic ultimatums. But an equally important front...

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash...

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Trump threatens jail for journalists amid escalating crackdown on war reporting

President’s threat to imprison reporters over Iran airman coverage raises renewed constitutional concerns as administration intensifies pressure on press freedom during wartime reporting.

CBS pulls report challenging Trump foreign policy

What’s behind the canceling of the 60 Minutes story on El Salvador?

Trump calls critics ‘enemy within’ as generals told to target American...

In a speech to nearly 800 generals at Quantico, Trump described journalists as “sleazebags,” called Democratic-run cities “unsafe,” and urged troops to use them as “training grounds.”

How Big Oil hijacked EU-funded journalism training on plastic pollution

At an event ostensibly about plastic waste, none of the speakers were heard mentioning the need to reduce plastic production—the core issue driving the crisis.

Journalists demand access to Gaza as Israel begins full conquest and...

More than 600 journalists call the press restrictions in Gaza “the worst blackout in modern conflict” as Israel moves forward with plans to fully occupy the strip and restricts independent coverage of its escalating war.

Public funding is the solution to media bias, not the driver

The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology.

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A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds

Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

F is for Failure and Fascism

On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
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Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: NOAA, public domain

Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
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Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.