Media
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
Japanexperterna
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
Gage Skidmore
CNN is Doing the Right Thing to Sue Trump
There’s absolutely no reason the network can’t both report on Trump’s daily blunders and also vigorously defend itself when he seeks to punish one of its reporters for doing his job. Read more
The Mark Judge We Knew
Writing for us back in the 1980s, Judge, now a key figure in the Kavanaugh drama, displayed a concern for social justice, and a progressive vision for the world. Read more
Illustrations By Stuart Goldenberg
No Comment
A recent Ipsos poll found that 48 percent of Republicans agree with Trump that the media are “the enemy of the people” and 43 percent think the President “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.” Read more
“No Guarantees”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says there’s a whole lot she “can’t guarantee” about her boss. Read more
Mutante
Join the Fight Against Fake News
As the midterm elections approach, we’d better prepare for another misinformation onslaught from Russia, without love. Here’s how. Read more
Remembering Ed Schultz
Ed cared about working people—and was a singular voice for labor rights and social justice. Read more
Mike Licht
Stormy Daniels Is Not Your Stereotype
A porn star has the President in the hot seat—and she’s highlighting that sex workers are, and always have been, key players in the fight for social justice. Read more
Ernesto Aguilar
Small Town Community Radio Takes On the Housing Crisis
Many people are aware of the challenges of urban gentrification, but smaller cities and rural places also suffer from housing shortages and high rents. Community radio stations are playing an important role in addressing the problem. Read more
The Troubling Backstory to Sinclair’s Forced Trump Salute
Sinclair Broadcasting is not only the biggest owner of local television stations in the country, they are also the fastest growing. Thanks to Trump, they are about to get a whole lot bigger. Read more
Peter Tkac
Uproar Over a Journalist’s Murder Brings Down Slovakia’s Prime Minister
The shooting of journalist Ján Kuciak sparked massive protests. Read more
Jon S
Fifty Years After the Kerner Report, We’re Still Missing Stories
The 1968 report cited that media coverage was framed “from the standpoint of a white man's world.” Half a century later, white media gatekeepers have maintained the disturbing status quo. Read more
US Marine Corps
What’s Wrong with Black History Month?
Black History Month shouldn’t be an excuse to ignore African American history for the other eleven months of the year. Read more
Politifact
The Truth about Fake News
In an age when anyone with access to a computer or smartphone can spread falsehoods, we all have a civic duty to be discerning news consumers. Read more
Negative Space
See More Local News in Your Facebook Feed? Be Skeptical
The social media giant wants to uplift local news in its algorithms. But IRL, it’s complicated. Read more
