Newest Alt. Media

• Levy: The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content

  Corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance
• LaChance: Mother Jones Is Failing Its Namesake

  The dismal conditions are part of the cruelty, but the existence of a place to sleep in a prison certainly does not negate the evil of its condition
• Goodale: Assange Indictment “Criminalizes the News Gathering Process”

  A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to...
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  Pilger: A ‘Very Long Uphill Road’ for Assange

  It presents the most, the gravest threat to press freedom which I can remember
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  Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent

  Interview about the persecution of the WikiLeaks publisher and the rapid crackdown on investigative journalism
• Risen: The Indictment of Julian Assange

  A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship
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  Pilger: The Assange arrest is a warning from history

  The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times.
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  Cook: Media Rendition

  Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books – to nothing more than a sex pest, and a scruffy bail-skipper.
• Harris: Four Decades of Radical Radio

  An Interview With WPKN’s Scott Harris
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  Grim: Means TV, A Post-Capitalist Streaming Service

  Launched Thursday morning, Means TV plans to bring a leftist lens to news and entertainment in the burgeoning subscription video-on-demand industry
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  Flanders: Making American Journalism Great and Different

  For all the changes that have hit the news, some things have remained the same: a handful of mostly pale, male editors and publishers downtown have defined who and what is newsworthy and who gets to tell the news
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  Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent Revisited

  Noam Chomsky's ideas on the media in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media have provided us with a guide, full of cautionary tales and ideas that are still controversial to this day
• Wokusch: The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment

  The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists
• Johnson: Attacking the Press

  "I think the Acosta incident is... a symbol of an attempt to discredit not only CNN but the entire press corps."
• Avery: The Importance Of Alternative Media

  The superficiality of today’s television Social critic Neil Postman contrasted...
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  Pilger: Hold the front page. The reporters are missing

  Complex stories are reported to a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission: Brexit, Venezuela, Russia, Syria
• MacLeod: Facebook Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality

  The latest action by Facebook is part of a worrying trend towards greater censorship of media
• Pithouse: New Frame

  We will strive to keep a clear and vigilant eye on the lived experience of oppression and resistance, and to develop new frames for making adequate sense of our time and place, and prospects for a better future
• Risen: It’s Time for a Crusading Press to Fight Back

  Crusading journalism is what is needed now
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  Cole: Attack on Free Press Turns Liberty to Tyranny

  Ben Franklin made sure that “political libel,” which is really political free speech for the most part, was never criminalized in the United States