Tag: mainstream media
Who bankrolls Tucker Carlson’s hateful propaganda? Why the Kochs of course.
Carlson’s moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Caller is heavily bankrolled by – you guessed it – the Koch brothers.
Dog Day Amerika
Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon is worth watching, if just for one reason. That would be the total fascination by many in...
As Mueller finds no collusion, did press overhype Russiagate? Glenn Greenwald...
"This is the saddest media spectacle I’ve ever seen, since I began practicing journalism in 2005."
The big obstacle for Bernie isn’t DNC rigging’ – it’s media...
We must confront those corporate media forces while vastly strengthening independent progressive media work of all kinds.
Cable TV news: A mere shadow of what it could and...
News reporting is, without a doubt, extremely important. But that is just not enough, we also need these T.V. channels to go a step further and expand their horizons.
Lost in TrumpWorld
Ostensibly big stories erupt, command universal attention, and then evaporate like the dewfall on a summer morning, their place taken by the next equally big, no less ephemeral story.
Forum perversion: Why progressive media should BAN climate-troll comments
Extensive reflection has produced a rather compelling case why the trolls’ climate pseudoscience comments – if not the trolls themselves – should be banned from progressive media.
Longtime reporter leaves NBC saying media is ‘Trump circus’ that encourages...
William Arkin issued the blistering critique after a 30-year relationship with NBC, calling for “Trump-free” media days and a reckoning about how the network encourages a state of perpetual warfare.
Not one network should have aired Trump’s immigration speech
The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So what do they have to lose by doing the right thing?
News from the far side of nowhere
In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...