Latest Media
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Greenwald: The Washington Post, Shame, & Lobbyists
The Washington Post’s particular righteous fury as expressed in words, while understandable in one sense, is very difficult to reconcile with their actual actions
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Trump Told Lesley Stahl He Calls the Truth “Fake News” to Discredit Journalists. So Why Did She Let Him Do It Again on “60 Minutes”?
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Greenwald: Mental Health Professionals Denounce CNN
It’s the precise behavior that has driven people with mental health issues underground, hiding in shame, and too afraid – for good reason – to seek the treatment they need and deserve
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Anderson: WaPo Picks a Side in Maryland Race
The Side That’s Offering Billions to Amazon
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By reducing politics to a celebrity obsession – from Johnson to Trump to Corbyn – the media misdirects and confuses us
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Fisk: Spending the day with controversial journalist, Gideon Levy
Journalism and Israel can be combined in the Gideon Levy story. His love-hate relationship with the one can get mixed up with his horror of the path down which his country is now travelling
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MacLeod: Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
The increasing meshing of corporate and US government control over the means of communication is particularly worrying
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Aronoff: Adding “Green” to a Policy Idea Now Makes It More Popular
New polling has found that inserting climate change into other popular demands can make them even more popular
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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
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Kim: Secrecy and Non-Transparency
Media get things wrong all the time, but among the deepest damage they do is invisibilizing possibilities, making it seem that things they don’t consider can’t happen
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Corbett: “Terrifying” Secret Rules for Spying on Journalists
"It makes me wonder, what other rules are out there, and how have these rules been applied?"
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Currier: Government Spying on Journalists
The U.S. government can monitor journalists under a foreign intelligence law that allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system, according to newly released documents
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Ellner: NY Times Doing More Harm Than Good in Venezuela
If the central argument of the New York Times and other members of the “liberal” establishment is that Trump should focus on economic sanctions rather than a military solution, then they are undoubtedly doing more harm than good
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Emersberger: Venezuela Poses No ‘Threat to the World’
But the Washington Post’s Claim That It Does Is Dangerous
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Tucker: Washington Post’s Campaign to Keep a Republican in Office
The Washington Post – which dominates D.C.’s media landscape – has set its sights on defeating Ben Jealous
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Anderson: Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left
Whether corporate media choose to acknowledge its relevance or continue its fear-mongering remains to be seen
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Hoenig: Today’s Yellow Journalism
President Trump is right about calling the media fake news, but for all the wrong reasons. It is fake because it manipulates public opinion to further narratives that their corporate sponsors demand
ZMag Media
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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of American Politics by the Press
Ever since the foundation of the American Republic, there has been both praise for and suspicion of the role the press plays in U.S. political life
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Herman: Publishing Edward S. Herman
An important semantic development of the past decade that is closely related to the doublespeak of moderateness and extremism is the new usage of the concept of “special interests.”
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Dolack: An Honest Conversation About Vietnam
More than four decades past the end of that imperialist adventure, having a serious discussion about it remains taboo.
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Herman: “Meddling in Fake News and the Real World”
The United States outclasses Russia and its predecessor, the Soviet Union, in both the number, and frequency of resort to violence, in their interventions in foreign elections.
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from U.S. Media Coverage
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified.
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Phillips: Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
Both PR and propaganda seek to change behaviors and ideas among the masses in support of the agendas of public and private institutions.
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Herman: The New Anti-Russian Hysteria
It is sad to see the liberals carried away on the wave of hysteria about the supposed Russian information warfare menace and possible influence over or even capture of the Trump presidency. It is also very dangerous to human welfare as it helps consolidate the power of the military-industrial complex
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Street: Reflections on the Not-so Public Broadcasting System
the news and commentary one finds on PBS is in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media
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who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine
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Herman: Public Editors & Structural Bias
Sullivan claims that the NYT has and should maintain “abiding attention to society’s have nots.” To the war on labor and decline of labor unions, which they have scanted for years?
Video Media
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M.j.: Independent Publishing in India
Continuing our focus on independent publishing in India, we talk to...
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Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Hersh: Syria, Osama bin Laden and more
Interview about his career and recent articles on Syria and Osama bin Laden
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
Audio Media
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...