Latest Media

• Lipsyte: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

  As Do Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death
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  Nader: Reporters’ Alert: Launching a New Website

  From time to time we will use Reporter’s Alert to present suggestions for important reporting on topics that are either not covered or not covered thoroughly
• Paul: Fear and Celebration of Substack Are Both Misplaced

  Corporate media certainly need disruption. But it has to happen at scale, not with a few writers here and there on an open microphone
• MacLeod: Humanitarian Imperialism

  How corporate media sell regime change, Intervention and war to progressive audiences
• Fowdy: Media Manipulation

  Twitter’s discrediting of leaked docs that show UK’s covert activities against Russia is a shocking case of media manipulation
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  Klikauer: The Mass Deception Machine of Computational Propaganda

  The US Republican Party, for example, finds it increasingly hard to win the popular vote. Consequently, it becomes ever more important for the right to win key areas to conjure up a narrow majority in the electoral college
• Paul: Guardian Columnist’s Firing Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper’s Rightward Drift

  The Guardian has fired one of its columnists for its US edition, Nathan Robinson, because Robinson jokingly tweeted about US military aid to Israel
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  Klikauer: Capitalism Profits From the Promulgation of Disinformation

  We do not just live in a time of too much information. We live in a period of intense but often somewhat accidental misinformation as well as deliberate disinformation
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  Cook: By putting Big Pharma’s patents before patients, doctors will further erode trust in experts

  I have spent the past several years on my blog trying to highlight one thing above all others: that the institutions we were raised to regard as authoritative are undeserving of our blind trust
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  Cockburn: Capitol Riots were a Dark Day for American Journalism

  This symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media means that they do less and less reporting, allowing Trump and his supporters to provide the action while they provide the talking heads who thrive on venomous confrontation
• Driver: How Governments and the Media Help Corporations Get Away With Their Crimes

  We need to question why we have given these organisations so much power and political influence. In a reasonable society, businesses would not be able to harm people
• Jay: Google Bans theAnalysis.news from Advertising on YouTube

  YouTube has censored and suppressed my report on the events of January 6th. I’d like to know why, but Google doesn’t owe me an answer. They can promote or suppress whatever they please
• Zaretsky: The Big Lie

  Hitler defined the Big Lie as an untruth so colossal that people ‘would not believe that others could distort the truth so infamously’. Trump’s claim that he won the election ‘in a landslide’ and victory was stolen from him is a lie of this sort
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  Baker: The Failure of the Media in Responding to the Lying Right

  Perhaps even more important is that the fact that mainstream media outlets allow public figures to spread their lies and not have it affect their reputation
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  Emersberger: Ignoring Repression and Dirty Tricks in Coverage of Ecuador’s Election

  Lies of omission characterize Reuters coverage of Latin American politics
• Risen: Biden Administration’s Push for Assange’s Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism

  A successful prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder could empower the government to go after journalists for publishing classified information
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  Cook: The Guardian revealed its true face in sacking a columnist for criticizing US military aid to Israel

  We must fight back. We need to understand that old corporate media like the Guardian are not an ally to the left, they are the enemy
• Paul: Covering School Reopening, Chicago Papers Pit Unions Against Parents

  Anti-union forces around the country depend on Chicago’s editorial boards to blunt the force of the CTU, lest it inspire more teachers around the country
• Halarnkar: India is turning to colonial-era laws to silence journalists

  Sedition charges are just the latest attempt by Narendra Modi’s government to undermine a free press. They must be opposed
• Driver: Psychology: Pretending There Is Nothing Wrong

  The human brain is capable of great insights and independent thought, but we have conditioned ourselves not to ask too many difficult questions, because we are afraid of the answers