Latest Media

• Norton: Reopening vs. Lockdown is a False Dichotomy

  The politicians don’t want to admit that the real problem is a serious lack of testing, contact tracing, and quarantining of infected people.
• Driver: The Incredible Stitch-up of Julian Assange

  What the US and Britain are attempting is not a legal form of extradition, it is extraordinary rendition – the ILLEGAL transfer of a person from one country to another
• Cohen: Let Us Name the System: “Racial Capitalism”

  At every stage in U.S. history – beginning with the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and continuing through modern methods of injustice from redlining to mass incarceration and private prisons – U.S. racism has been inextricably embedded in the system of profiteering.  
• Allsop: James Bennet and a moment of truth

  James Bennet is done at the New York Times
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  Koerner: WOLA: Media’s ‘Left’ Source for Pro-Coup Propaganda in Venezuela

  The US blockade is a naked expression of imperial might, which WOLA and other Western propaganda amplifiers hide behind empty rhetoric about “democracy” and “human rights.”
• Hauss: Police are Attacking Journalists at Protests

  We are facing a full-scale assault on the First Amendment freedom of the press
• Timm: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

  We are witnessing a truly unprecedented attack on press freedom in the United States, with journalists being systematically targeted while covering the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd
• Serwer: Trump’s Warped Definition of Free Speech

  Trump is seeking to build social-media companies such as Twitter and Facebook into part of an authoritarian infrastructure that amplifies his power and silences the opposition
• Paul: Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers

  Many outlets are failing to reach out to unions representing the workers who will have to incur risks by entering physical school spaces if reopening happens too hastily
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  Cole: Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

  Twitter routinely bans accounts for breaking its rules, but has let Trump act with impunity
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  Baker: The Sure Way to End Concerns About China’s “Theft” of a Vaccine: Make it Open

  If China can in principle develop a vaccine more quickly if it has access to data from labs in the United States then it must also be the case that researchers in the United States could develop a vaccine more quickly if they had data from labs in China and elsewhere
• Sonnenblume: The Proliferation of Conspiracy Theories & the Crisis of Science

  We are in danger of coming to see life as a “dog eat dog world” in which “greed is good” and “everybody’s in it for themselves” when in reality we are more likely an intrinsically cooperative species.
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  Greenwald: A Look at Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow

  What is particularly valuable about Smith’s article is its perfect description of a media sickness borne of the Trump era that is rapidly corroding journalistic integrity and justifiably destroying trust in news outlets
• Saglam: We have to grasp how conspiracy theories work

  Like viruses, conspiracy theories are socially contagious and hard to stop once set in motion. We must understand what they do to us
• White: Science, News, and Hate in the Age of Instant Media

  Follow the science, beware the lies, and don’t fall for the hate
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  Street: Thanks, “P”BS. Gee, who knew?

  A Late-Breaking Bulletin From PBS: “For Many Americans, Health Insurance is Tied to a Job”
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  Giroux: It Is Impossible to Be Radical Without Being Optimistic in the Pandemic Age

  In a time of crisis, the relationship between language and politics becomes more vivid, if not urgent
• Schleuss: Publicly Fund News Media, Because Journalists Fight for Us All

  Newspapers are now furloughing or permanently laying off workers, slashing pay by up to 25 percent
• Collins: An Examination of Britain’s Coronavirus Strategy and its Corresponding Propaganda

  It is somewhat reassuring to see the ineffectiveness of some elements of Britain’s propaganda campaigns, but its scope, reality and consequences are disturbing
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  Mier: Media Washes Hands of—and With—Boris Johnson

  As the UK quickly becomes a world leader in death and infections from the Covid-19 pandemic, corporate media are transforming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson into an international Coronavirus bugaboo.