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  Ellsberg: U.S. Press Freedom Under Attack in WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Extradition Case

  “Now the American press is staring right down the barrel at the use of the Espionage Act against American journalists and publishers for doing journalism.”
• Fallows: The Media Learned Nothing From 2016

  The press hasn’t broken its most destructive habits when it comes to covering Donald Trump
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  Chomsky: Chomsky, Walker and Ellsberg Defend Julian Assange

  Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg oppose the extradition of Julian Assange to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act
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  Cho: Journalists Need to Be Clear About a Clear Threat to Democracy

  It’s important for US media not to propagate the myth of US exceptionalism, which often makes false accusations of “election theft” against Global South countries like Bolivia and Venezuela, and misleads Americans into thinking election theft “can’t happen”
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  Pitt: Every Trump Lie Is a Confession

  It is difficult to think straight when the president is ruining your country in real time at the top of his voice and right in your face. That, of course, is the entire point of the exercise
• Hartmann: How big money controls the stories the media tells

  Investing in political media can produce a huge return on investment and transform the politics of the nation
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  Greenwald: Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite

  Outlets claiming to have “confirmed” Jeffrey Goldberg’s story about Trump’s troops comments are again abusing that vital term
• Stokes: “This Is Climate Change”

  West Coast Fires Scorch Millions of Acres & Blot Out the Sun
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  Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange

  When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism.”
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  Cook: For years, journalists cheered Assange’s abuse. Now they’ve paved his path to a US gulag

  The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms
• Ingram: Trump turns up the protest heat

  Trump’s rhetoric on the Black Lives Matter protests, not just in Oregon but in other states as well, has been ramping up as the election draws closer, painting what he clearly hopes will be a frightening picture
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  Baker: Manufacturing Jobs: MAGA Land and the Real World

  In three of the five Midwestern swing states there were actually more manufacturing jobs created in the last three years of the Obama administration than in the first three years of the Trump administration
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  Cole: Journalistic Malpractice

  How our TV News is letting Trump get away with Claiming the Pandemic is Behind Us when we have a 9/11 every 3 Days
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  Demause: US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

  Trained firefighters being good enough to work for nearly nothing, but ineligible to get real jobs, would seem to represent an even bigger irony — and a more important story — than California having to spend a few million dollars extra to fight two crises at once
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  Pitt: Republican Convention Takes on the Weighty Task of Boosting Trump’s Bruised Ego

  The “Audience of One” media phenomenon is perhaps the most vivid, daily available evidence of the stranglehold Donald Trump has on the Republican Party.
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  Emersberger: Reuters (Unsurprisingly) Looks Away as Ecuador Tries to Outlaw Opposition Parties

  Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of US allies in the Americas
• Ingram: The QAnon cult is growing and the media is helping

  Stocks and bonds may be weak, but we’re still in a raging bull market for one commodity, and that is disinformation
• Brannan: On Right-Wing Violence in Texas, Media’s Silence Sends Message

  The end result of national media’s neglect and local media’s muddling is the erasure of right-wing political violence, sending a message to would-be future attackers that there will be no consequences for their actions.
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  Cook: How the Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy

  The Guardian, like the rest of the corporate media, has derided and vilified as “populism” the emergence of any real political alternative.
• Devich-Cyril: Trump’s Threat to Press Freedom Is Global

  Attacks on the press are part of a broader effort to breed a level and type of confusion that forces a power vacuum which centralizes authority over U.S. institutions into the hands of the executive branch