Newest Alt. Media

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  Goodman: “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”

  Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, a Radical Media Movement
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  Ali: “In Defense of Julian Assange”

  Why WikiLeaks Founder’s Case Threatens Press Freedom
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  Regan: Whose News Literacy?

  Resources for teachers and students offer useful tools but reinforce status quo
• Dolack: Resisting misleading narratives about Pacifica Radio

  The counter-narratives about the recent takeover, and restoration, of New York City’s Pacifica radio station, WBAI, have apparently begun
• Tanaka: Response to Pete Dolack Articles on WBAI and Pacifica

  The real danger to Pacifica is not a ‘corporate coup’. The real danger is a financial failure which is what the current governance structure has brought about
• Paul: Can Deadspin Live Again as a Worker-Owned Website?

  The question about the former Deadspin workers isn’t just what’s next for them; it’s also about what’s next for us, the media consumers who need their voices so badly
• 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."