Those who seek to communicate outside of digital structures to question or challenge the dominant narrative, to deal in ambiguity and nuance, to have discussions rooted in verifiable fact and historical context, are becoming incomprehensible to most of modern society. As soon as they employ a language that is not...
Major media outlets have reportedly been told they will not be permitted access to a site of a major protest during the inaugural parade of President-elect Donald Trump.
One almost gets the sense that editors writing headlines ... have enlisted themselves on the sheriff’s team, waving spectators away with a “nothing to see here, folks.”
Instead of appealing to civility or plotting a run four years down the road, pundits who truly want to undermine Trump as much as possible should spend more time supporting their local anti-Trump protests and far less time treating Trump like just another politician. The left can only combat Trump...
Few corporate media journalists took note of a fellow reporter being charged with trespass for doing her job.
Here's a thought experiment for you. Ask yourself, "When was the last time I heard any conversation at all about the role of corporations in the United States in the US public media?"
The candidates and the media have thoroughly corrupted the presidential debates. Our democracy deserves better. There's still time for a change.
If the Gulf War was a television spectacle, the 2016 election is much more of one, with the added phony copies of reality flying around on social media.
On the surface, the battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders looks like a deep rift, one that threatens to splinter the Democratic Party. But viewed in the sweep of history, it is evidence of something far more positive for the party’s base and beyond: not a rift but a...
If the US government is happy with legislatures overthrowing presidents in Latin America, most US journalists will not go out of their way to indicate that not everyone in the region is celebrating.