To defend journalism, we need to defend the truth and not just journalists
Trump doesn’t slam the press for his own amusement. Trump loves the media like few, if any, presidents ever have. His real enemy is the truth.
Trump doesn’t slam the press for his own amusement. Trump loves the media like few, if any, presidents ever have. His real enemy is the truth.
Have the LA Times editors called for the criminal prosecution of Leon Panetta, and John Brennan, and other officials who leak not (as Snowden did) to inform the public but in order to propagandize them?
Photos and video of the world leaders standing, locked arm in arm, leading the massive march, raced around the planet. It has now been reported that the world leaders were not in the march at all, but were gathered for a photo opportunity on a closed street, away from the...
"This is the longest continuous period of war in American history. At some point, people should begin to think: what are the consequences of that?”
Journalism is about the public’s right to know what our government is up to. The National Security State is about preventing us from knowing what it is up to.
There are many ways to undermine press freedom without making reporting illegal.
Kevin Gosztola The Dissenter http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/10/10/how-obama-administration-controlled-media-is-used-to-avoid-scrutiny-from-the-press/ What makes the crackdown on leaks, increased denials of Freedom of Information Act requests and surveillance of journalists even more pernicious is how this conduct by President Barack Obama’s administration has taken place as the administration simultaneously uses its own media to pump out its...
Claiming that document-sharing organizations must reveal sources is fundamentally indistinguishable from forcing investigative reporters to do the same. The biases of lawmakers should not become law.
Some journalists stand up to power. Others kneel. So what is "freedom of the press"? (58 minutes)
Some journalists stand up to power. Others kneel. What role should journalism play in a democratic society? September 3 at 7:00pm.