Tag: mainstream media
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.
Study Confirms Network Evening Newscasts Have Abandoned Policy Coverage For 2016...
It’s troubling that the networks have decided this year to walk away from their responsibility to help inform voters about key issues of public concern.
Tabloid Takedown of Bernie Sanders
What explains the unrepentant disdain the elite media cast on Sanders’ bold ideas and insurgent campaign? In short, class.
WikiLeaks’ 10 Most Damning Clinton Emails that Prove Mainstream Media is...
The reality revealed in these emails is one of media collusion with powerful interests, which only serve to keep the American people in the dark about what is actually transpiring.
Noam Chomsky On His Gradual Expulsion from Mainstream Media
The last time Chomsky was in The New York Times was over a decade ago.
Terrorism: The Product of American Military Policy
The War on Terror is not a war unto itself; it is just one facet of the larger agenda of perpetual war that this government, filled with bloodthirsty war hawks, has conducted for far too long.
Moderation in Pursuit of Truth Is the Media’s Vice
But neither NBC News nor The New York Times public editor knows it.
Pay For Play? The Scandal Is Judicial Watch Misleading Gullible Media
Perhaps it is time for someone in the media to investigate its conduct.
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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.