Tag: mainstream media
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
FBI is making an enemies list—and most corporate media didn’t even...
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
Media largely ignored Gaza famine when there was time to avert...
Major U.S. media, likewise, bear a share of responsibility for the hunger-related deaths in Gaza.
Support oppositional press—not media owned by Fascist collaborators
In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.
Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for...
The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.
Rupert Murdoch loses his legal battle, leaving future of media empire...
The New York Times revealed details of the recent secret hearing in a Nevada probate court that was literally prompted by the epic HBO drama Succession.
NPR’s ‘balance’ serves to normalize Trump’s highly abnormal cabinet picks
They must be confirmed by the Senate, which means the media play an important role in helping bring to light their records and qualifications.
Media blame left for Trump victory—rather than their own fear-based business...
Corporate media should know the strategy: Fear works!
Why the media’s ‘sanewashing’ of Trump is uniquely dangerous
In their attempts to normalize an obviously abnormal candidate, major media outlets risk shirking their responsibility to do the most fundamental job of the free press at their own peril: To tell the truth.
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
Searching for solace in a nuclearized world
The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.