The Most Censored Stories of the Year, Rising Up with Andy Lee Roth

The Most Censored Stories of the Year BY SONALI KOLHATKAR  YES Magazine  December 8, 2023 Each year, Project Censored publishes its annual survey of independent journalism, State of the Free Press, consisting of stories that corporate news media failed to cover or badly misrepresented. Project Censored, whose mission is to “expose and oppose news censorship and … promote independent investigative More

Matt Taibbi: Dao Prize Acceptance Speech and Interview with Glenn Greenwald

Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger and I win the inaugural Dao Prize for excellence in investigative journalism, for the Twitter Files reports. Dao Prize Acceptance Speech MATT TAIBBI / Racket News / November 2, 2023    I was a little nervous in Washington last night, so my speech didn’t come out exactly like this, but this More

The Censorship Hydra, by Matt Taibbi

The Censorship Hydra  (Or Amy Klobuchar Sucks) By Matt Taibbi  Substack  October 26, 2023 Senator Amy Klobuchar  (D-MN) If you read this morning’s Racket article about Senator Amy Klobuchar’s letter to Jeff Bezos asking for “proactive measures” to suppress sites like Substack or Rumble, you probably gathered I’m in a mood. I’ve had it. Whether it’s NewsGuard slapping More

Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks

All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows.  Bad Faith and Blank Checks By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News   ScheerPost  September 6, 2023  byEDITOR An embedded civilian journalist taking photographs of U.S. soldiers in Dana, More

Caitlin Johnstone: Access Journalism at Its Most Pernicious

New York Times editors changed a recent headline from “As Ukraine’s Fight Falters, It Gets Even Harder to Talk About Negotiations” to “As Ukraine’s Fight Grinds On, Talk of Negotiations Becomes Nearly Taboo”, apparently for no other reason than because “grinds on” advances the information interests of the US empire better than “falters”.

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