The publicizing of an anonymous blacklist is a prime example of how fake real news on real fake news spreads without question. By Adam Johnson.

Border officials questioned Ed Ou, a freelance photojournalist, and confiscated his phones for a period before denying him entry. By Daniel Victor.

Blame the media, not Moscow. By Philip Giraldi.

With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. By Ben Norton, Glenn Greenwald.

“Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism” – Louis Pasteur

From Al Smith and Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. By Jesse Walker.

How timely it is to read this strange, intense novel from Ha Jin about the glories and limits of the press. A former soldier in the Chinese army who chose to stay in the U.S. after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ha Jin has lived and worked under two very different sets of rules. By Ron Charles.

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.

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.

Just because Facebook isn’t doing anything about it doesn’t mean you can’t. By Madison Malone Kircher.

As Britain awoke to Donald Trump becoming the next President of the United States of America, the world was reacting with shock and disbelief.

It is the American people themselves that should scare us to death, not whichever puppet our masters can convince us trust. By Dr. Bones.

The persistence of Vox… By Nathan J. Robinson

An honest journalist holds all sides to the same standard of criticism, no matter what his or her own views. By Ken Silverstein.

“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.

How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact? By Maria Bustillos.

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.

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.

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.

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.