The UAE’s man in Washington enjoys a cozy relationship with a top Beltway pundit. By Ben Norton.

As an ever larger share of national income goes to the rich, the Washington Post covers the number of people receiving disability payments. By Dean Baker.

The NY Times’ dangerous embrace of false balance on climate change. By Joe Romm.

An American Russia scholar on why he doesn’t believe the New York Times, doesn’t think the DNC was hacked, and just wants the U.S. and Russia to get along. By [Nixon White House spindoctor Murray Chotiner’s son] Isaac Chotiner.

Andrew O’Hagan reviews “Mail Men: The Unauthorised Story of the ‘Daily Mail’, the Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain” by Adrian Addison.

“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.” On Democracy Now.

“’Terrorists don’t care who they kill,’ Phillips said. ‘It’s the number of bodybags that determines success.’ ‘And the publicity,’ Robinson interjected. ‘And the publicity,’ Phillips agreed.” By Des Freedman.

Trump's tussle with the bureaucratic state. By Michael J. Glennon.

Understanding the Vacuity. By Fred Reed.

By cojoco on /r/RedditCenshorship. (May 21, 2017)

Inside the growing influence of a mysterious anti-Trump website. By Pamela Engel.

Given how much the media has hampered his administration, Trump’s goal seems to be to snuff it out any way possible. By Trevor Timm.

“It seemed very suspicious for such an important article about the intelligence community’s ties to the Washington Post to go missing at the same time WaPo decides to stir up Russia collusion nonsense using anonymous sources again.” By Caitlin Johnstone.

For reporters, deception often is a formative experience. By Ann Marie Lipinski.

The photographer and visual storyteller on daily life during conflict in Yemen, the necessity of conversation, and why she’s not a war photographer. By Joanna Naples-Mitchell.

What still poses as conversation has turned into blame games and shouting matches replete with innuendo, fake news and insinuations. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer.

The construction of foreign “threats” benefits a national government hungry for legitimacy—and news organizations hungry for an audience. By Glen Frieden.

We old-timers (online since 1987) don’t know what to make of these kids and their Inter Webs anymore. By Doktor Zoom.

Media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system omit that one of CSIS’s top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD’s primary contractor. By Adam Johnson.

It’s come to a pretty pass indeed when the Telegraph is the bastion of truth.