Media
Reckless Cruelty: The Joe McCarthy Story
Through the years, television and film treatments have transmitted the late Senator's persona–and exposed his perfidy. Read more
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How the International Media Greenlights Israeli Aggression Toward Palestine
“How terrifying is it that when someone points out the violations that Israel commits, they risk their job like Marc Lamont Hill?” Read more
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Where are the Young Voices in the Media?
Youth activism is clearly on the rise today, particularly in regard to gun control and climate change. Yet the stories about these involvements are hardly ever told by young people. Read more
What’s Wrong with the Media
Matt Taibbi’s latest book is a no-holds-barred takedown of what the media have become in the era of Donald Trump. Read more
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To My New Admirer at Fox News
As a “super far left” member of the press, I found common ground defending free speech. But accuracy? Not so much. Read more
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Look Out! Mike Wallace is Here
Belkin does viewers a great service by reminding us of one of broadcast journalism’s most outspoken gladiators, who at his finest boldly yelled truth to power. Read more
My Paul Krassner Story
The Yippies’ co-founder and counterculture provocateur was all about making political activism fun. Read more
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Donald Trump, Rapist-In-Chief
If rape isn’t a “high crime and misdemeanor,” what is? Read more
The Press Under Fire
Trump’s rhetoric is both a cause and a symptom of the danger to U.S. journalists. Read more
Press Freedom Group Takes Trump to Court
“Although the President is free to criticize the press, he cannot use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it.” Read more
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Operation Take Down Bernie
Sanders’s socialism is scary for a Democratic establishment that worries a lot about electability. Cue the media hit pieces. Read more
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Citizen Pulitzer: Patron Saint of the Oppressed
Film Review of “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People.” Read more
On Journalism, Middle America, and the Stories We Choose to Tell
“Esquire” magazine is under fire for putting a straight, white, Trump-supporting Wisconsin teenager on its cover. But that isn’t the real problem. Read more
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Foreign Correspondent: Does Cuba Censor the Internet? Think Again.
So far, U.S. government attempts to kickstart a Twitter revolution have failed. Read more
Trump’s Christmas Chaos
Never underestimate Donald Trump’s willingness to pitch the country into chaos. Read more
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Triumph of the Swill: New Doc Puts Roger Ailes in the No Spin Zone
The best exposé on Fox in years dives into its former chief’s history of racism and the sexual misconduct that would ultimately be his undoing. Read more
Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers
Local ownership of the press matters, as some 1,300 of our towns have learned after Wall Street’s corporate demigods of greed swept in to seize their paper, gut its journalistic mission, and devour its assets. Read more
