Tag: mainstream media
Dog Day Amerika
Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon is worth watching, if just for one reason. That would be the total fascination by many in...
As Mueller finds no collusion, did press overhype Russiagate? Glenn Greenwald...
"This is the saddest media spectacle I’ve ever seen, since I began practicing journalism in 2005."
The big obstacle for Bernie isn’t DNC rigging’ – it’s media...
We must confront those corporate media forces while vastly strengthening independent progressive media work of all kinds.
Cable TV news: A mere shadow of what it could and...
News reporting is, without a doubt, extremely important. But that is just not enough, we also need these T.V. channels to go a step further and expand their horizons.
Lost in TrumpWorld
Ostensibly big stories erupt, command universal attention, and then evaporate like the dewfall on a summer morning, their place taken by the next equally big, no less ephemeral story.
Forum perversion: Why progressive media should BAN climate-troll comments
Extensive reflection has produced a rather compelling case why the trolls’ climate pseudoscience comments – if not the trolls themselves – should be banned from progressive media.
Longtime reporter leaves NBC saying media is ‘Trump circus’ that encourages...
William Arkin issued the blistering critique after a 30-year relationship with NBC, calling for “Trump-free” media days and a reckoning about how the network encourages a state of perpetual warfare.
Not one network should have aired Trump’s immigration speech
The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So what do they have to lose by doing the right thing?
News from the far side of nowhere
In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...
Fox News hasn’t mentioned possible election fraud in North Carolina for...
Despite harping on baseless “voter fraud” myths for years, Fox News has virtually ignored this apparent case of actual election fraud.
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Report counts 902 pregnancy-related prosecutions in three years after Dobbs
Pregnancy Justice found that most cases involved child neglect or endangerment charges and that substance use was alleged in 871 of them.
CMS rescinds nursing home voting guidance and issues new memo on coercion
The July 20 memo replaced 2020 and 2024 guidance. Senators asked the agency in August to reinstate the earlier versions.
Education Department drops appeal of ruling that struck down loan forgiveness employer rule
The rule would have let the education secretary disqualify nonprofit and government employers from Public Service Loan Forgiveness. A federal court vacated it on June 30.
Trump Dangles Rural Health Dollars To Push States To Change Hospital Laws
The Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding for states partly to the policy commitments they make, including ending their certificate of need, or CON, laws governing the construction of new hospitals.
Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...
The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.