Tag: mainstream media

Donald Trump is a bullshit artist of the first order. Yet all art reflects the time in which it’s produced and Trump’s art is no exception.

Carlson’s moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Caller is heavily bankrolled by – you guessed it – the Koch brothers.

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...

"This is the saddest media spectacle I’ve ever seen, since I began practicing journalism in 2005."

We must confront those corporate media forces while vastly strengthening independent progressive media work of all kinds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?