Tag: mainstream media
Media complicity is key to blacklisting websites
In media and government, the journalists and officials who enable blacklisting are cravenly siding with conformity instead of democracy.
Russian propaganda? The new era of mainstream conspiracy theory
While it is true that Russia, China and other rival countries engage in espionage and propaganda, their efforts to change American minds pale in comparison to the stenography of the US and other Western media.
Too little, too late: Weeks after election, media see Trump’s conflicts,...
The media mostly missed this pressing story once during the campaign. They can’t afford to overlook it a second time.
Trump’s seven techniques to control the media
Historically, these seven techniques have been used by demagogues to erode the freedom and independence of the press.
Libeled by the Washington Post in a ‘false news’ McCarthyite attack...
Is the Pentagon behind this massive hit on independent journalism?
And so it begins: Normalizing the election
The media must not excuse the racism, misogyny, nativism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia because we think Trump voters have legitimate gripes.
TV news and its long dark night of the soul
Tunnel vision and faulty polls blinded television to what was happening during the election. But that’s not all.
Establishment media declares war on their competition as “fake news”
US News has published a list of websites that it deems unworthy of support, and is essentially urging to be de-monitized or banned based on the previous calls to action.
2016 as prologue, not aberration
Our media is strangling our democracy, and without a course correction it will only get worse.
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The dark side of Trump’s moon
A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.
‘Domestic terrorism’: Leaked DOJ memo targets ‘anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity’
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.
Ending the American Dream by 2029?
The future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls.
‘An abject failure’: Economists trash Trump’s disastrous job creation record in year-end reviews
“The jobs aren’t coming back, the wages aren’t rising,” one economist said.
Trump plan to dismantle US weather research hub alarms scientists and state officials
A proposal by the Trump administration to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sparked warnings from scientists, university leaders, and Colorado officials who say the move could undermine public safety, economic stability, and decades of shared scientific infrastructure.