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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.
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‘The Boat Rocker’: An Unsettling Book About the Moral Dimensions of Modern Journalism
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.
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‘Fake News’ Is Easier to Trace and Debunk Than Ever Before
From Al Smith and Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. By Jesse Walker.
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Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy
“Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism” – Louis Pasteur
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Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. By Ben Norton, Glenn Greenwald.
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The Fake News Fake Story
Blame the media, not Moscow. By Philip Giraldi.
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Canadian Journalist’s Detention at U.S. Border Raises Press Freedom Alarms
Border officials questioned Ed Ou, a freelance photojournalist, and confiscated his phones for a period before denying him entry. By Daniel Victor.
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Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited ‘Fake News’ Blacklist?
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.
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How the Economics of Journalism Explains 2016’s Information Bubbles
Jay Hamilton, a Stanford professor who studies media business models, sees similarities between some of today's outlets and the partisan press of the 1850s. By Joe Pinsker.
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Covering politics in a “post-truth” America
Politico editor Susan Glasser chronicles how political reporting has changed over the course of her career and reflects on the state of independent journalism after the 2016 election.
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The trolling of Elon Musk: how US conservatives are attacking green tech
Electric-car evangelist is the target of concerted negative online campaign linked to influential rightwing network
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