Tag: 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.
Trump’s ‘quiet, piggy’ remark and White House defense intensify concerns about...
Trump’s comments to Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey and ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce during recent press exchanges raised questions about the administration’s response to journalists’ inquiries regarding the Epstein files and the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
Public funding is the solution to media bias, not the driver
The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology.
How worker-owned news outlets are changing the media industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
How the Gaza war can be big news and invisible at...
The horrors in Gaza are being propelled by the U.S. war machine, but you wouldn’t know it from the standard U.S. media.
Media bias towards Israel in Gaza coverage exposed in new report
The study uncovered a clear imbalance in the portrayal of casualties and narratives.
Unveiling the thin line: How US media reports impact the ‘war...
For media institutions, the challenge lies in navigating the treacherous waters of state discourse without becoming its unwitting conduit.
Fighting billionaires’ control of the media, individual news vouchers
People who really want to do something to reduce the power of billionaires should get behind it.
The Titan and the Titanic: two tales of capitalist hubris
The doomed OceanGate submersible offers us many of the same lessons that the 1912 Titanic sinking did.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.