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Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump/Russia Story
The most challenging task is choosing the ten worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is they all go toward promoting the same narrative. By Glenn Greenwald.
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My Departure Letter from NBC
I circulated this letter to NBC colleagues on January 2 and since it quickly leaked and got recirculated all over, I’d thought I’d post it here... By William M. Arkin.
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Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains To Us Why Assange Should Be Prosecuted
If Assange is successfully prosecuted for doing the same thing other mainstream publications do to hold power to account, there will be little stopping the US government from going after those types of outlets all around the world for publishing its secrets. By Caitlin Jonstone.
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Guardian ups its vilification of Julian Assange
It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. By Jonathan Cook.
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The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism
Fairy tale or American horror story: Could be either, who can say? By Jessica M. Goldstein. (Aug. 2, 2018)
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G’day USA: Beardspo shop launches with products direct from down under
The world’s first bearding zine has launched an online store catering to United States customers seeking Australian made grooming products.
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Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate
Germans are losing faith in their media. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mistrust of refugee crisis media coverage. Where did journalists go wrong? And how much of this skepticism reflects a preference for rumors over facts?
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To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo
Rebecca Solnit on Why Journalists Need to Cause Trouble. Adapted from the 2016 commencement address for the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, Solnit’s alma mater.
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The Silencing of Japan’s Free Press
As the leaders of the G-7 liberal democracies convened in the Japanese shrine town of Ise-Shima this week, host Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used the event to showcase his nation as a regional beacon of democratic values and a counterweight to authoritarian China. However, recent events have raised doubts about his commitment to at least one of those values — freedom of the press.
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Barbarians at the Gates
A key weapon of the neo-liberal establishment in delegitimising the emergence of popular organisation to the left, is to portray all thinkers outside the Overton window as dangerous; actively violent, misogynist and racist... By Craig Murray.
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The Scandalous Zines of Renaissance England
Broadsides were the Facebook posts and tweets of their day. By Natalie Zarrelli.
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The Necessity of Political Vulgarity
To deny the importance of vulgarity is to reject the revolutionary tradition… By Amber A’Lee Frost. (May 17, 2016)
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Study Reveals the Post’s Desire to Dismiss Economic Explanations of Trump’s Rise
The Washington Post suggests that a new study of Trump voters proves “economic anxiety” is irrelevant to his success. The study suggests otherwise. By Eric Levitz.
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The media vs. Donald Trump: why the press feels so free to criticize the Republican nominee
There is a case to be made that the media created Donald Trump. It was, reportedly, his anger at being dismissed by political pundits that led him to run for president in the first place. And it was, arguably, the media’s wall-to-wall coverage of his every utterance that powered his victory in the Republican primary. But slowly, surely, the media has turned on Trump. He still gets wall-to-wall coverage, but that coverage is overwhelmingly negative. Increasingly, the press doesn’t even pretend to treat Trump like a normal candidate...
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Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace
According to leading pro-Democratic media, the US cannot possibly work with Russia. By Adam Johnson. (Aug. 24, 2016)
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Fueled by Republicans, Americans' trust in media hits all-time low
In a climate of bitter political partisanship, anti-media rhetoric and diversified media options, just 32% of Americans now say they trust the media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" -- the lowest level since 1972, when Gallup began polling. "Now, only about a third of the U.S. has any trust in the Fourth Estate, a stunning development for an institution designed to inform the public," Gallup said in its press release.
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How a Tragic Child Murder Case Became a Fight About Press Freedom
On July 23 1991, construction workers near the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan found an Igloo cooler with the partially decomposed remains of a toddler-aged girl inside. According to the chief NYC medical examiner, the cause of death was asphyxia, and further testing revealed that the young girl had semen in her rectum when she died. No one reported the girl missing, and for over two decades, police had no real leads.
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How Arianna Huffington Lost Her Newsroom
The Huffington Post’s namesake founder, who stepped down as editor in chief last month, built an iconic media company in record time. Then, after a decade at the helm, she left suddenly. By William D. Cohan.
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Cable News Charnel
To the cable news camera, structural oppression is harder to capture than a burning cop car. Spectacle still rules cable news. By Alex Pareene.
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Why won’t anyone admit that America is fighting 5 wars?
The shameful conspiracy of silence around America’s many wars. By Damon Linker.
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Four Wars
“More than most armed struggles, the conflicts have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role.” By Patrick Cockburn.
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Bern after reading: Why the beltway press wrote off the possibility of Bernie Sanders
Writer Thomas Frank examines the DC media's coverage of the Sanders campaign, and finds an antagonism driven by the same elitist politics and beltway solipsism that power both the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party leadership, and a shared ideological blindspot towards the possibilities of politics and the worth of stale (often disastrous) Beltway consensus. [Podcast]
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Whirl
For almost sixty years, the weekly St. Louis Evening Whirl brazenly attacked criminals, exposed the sexual peccadilloes of the black bourgeoisie, and racked up millions in libel claims— most of the time in iambic, rhyming couplets. By Scott Eden.
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Taking a Page from Joe McCarthy
Hillary Clinton and her supporters have turned to ugly McCarthyism in attacking Donald Trump to divert attention from their email scandals, a dangerous use of Russia-bashing, says Robert Parry.
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Did Robert Caruso Con The Washington Press—Or Is That What The Russians Want You To Think?
How hard is it to con people in Washington, D.C.? Easier than you might think, considering it’s the place where things like nuclear war get decided. The national-security circuit in particular, with its think tank fellowships and massive government contracts, is one of the juiciest rackets around... By Brendan James.
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The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place… By Louis Proyect.
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When Truth Falls Apart
How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact? By Maria Bustillos.
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Journalists too easily charmed by power, access, and creamy risotto
“In an election year that has been defined by the failure of elite political operatives and members of the media to anticipate the volcanic discontent that drove the insurgencies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, the idea of reporters and campaigns periodically shedding their oppositional roles to party together seems particularly odious.” By Ross Barkan.
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This Election Has Disgraced the Entire Profession of Journalism
An honest journalist holds all sides to the same standard of criticism, no matter what his or her own views. By Ken Silverstein.
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Explaining It All To You
The persistence of Vox… By Nathan J. Robinson
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Candidates, Be Afraid of the People Voting for Them
It is the American people themselves that should scare us to death, not whichever puppet our masters can convince us trust. By Dr. Bones.
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‘Dear God, America what have you done?’: How the world and its media reacted as Donald Trump became US President-elect
As Britain awoke to Donald Trump becoming the next President of the United States of America, the world was reacting with shock and disbelief.
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An Extremely Helpful List of Fake and Misleading News Sites to Watch Out For
Just because Facebook isn’t doing anything about it doesn’t mean you can’t. By Madison Malone Kircher.
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Nobody will say what’s really wrong with U.S. journalism
The problem isn’t whether the media was too biased against Trump or didn’t listen to his voters. The problem is that journalism doesn’t help everyday Americans solve their problems. By Will Bunch.
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‘The goal is not to fear Trump, but for Trump to fear you’
Before leaving Pulitzer Hall, the Columbia Journalism School building in Manhattan, on Election Night, I stopped by our makeshift newsroom to absorb some of the evening’s excitement. It was still early in the process; polls were just beginning to close around the country… By Ari L. Goldman.