Tag: mainstream media
Mistakes in the news are not fake news
And tantrums from the faker-in-chief don’t make them so.
How mind conditioning has created a great silence and passivity in...
The American people need to rise up and say, “Enough is enough and we’re not going to take it anymore!”
Donald Trump’s Ajit (Pai)-prop
President Trump knows how to use the mass media, and social media, to manipulate public opinion and sway voters.
Trump’s FCC has paved the way for a giant, local Fox...
Relaxed media consolidation rules have allowed Sinclair Broadcasting to buy Tribune Media, creating a local news behemoth with a conservative bent.
How broadcast networks covered climate change in 2016
The networks failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial.
There won’t be another Jimmy Breslin, but we need more like...
It's not that good journalists aren't out there, they just don't get published.
Newt Gingrich: Trump should use the CNN confrontation as an excuse...
Gingrich is not alone in urging Trump to freeze out the press.
Trump’s plan to neuter the white house press corps, and neuter...
We’re in a new era, the reign of King Trump.
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Trump-backed PAC took $5 million from tobacco giant before FDA opened door to flavored...
A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.
Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Louisiana’s tough-on-crime policies stand to cost taxpayers millions more for years to come
The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact the state.