TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton did a Facebook Live report from Flint, Michigan, highlighting the ongoing crisis in Flint. https://youtu.be/NNdsHoru1PI TYT Politics Published on Dec 26, 2016 (https://twitter.com/JordanChariton) To learn more about Rise Up Times and support Media for the People! with a donation click here. No Peace! No Justice! Please share this post.
"Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it,"
"It is time for the Post to take a dose of its own medicine.”
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media”
State-sponsored broadcasting CEO to be appointed directly by US president
...even today known establishment and CIA operatives such as Anderson Cooper (CNN-CBS) and Robert Baer (CNN) regularly “report the facts” to millions of Americans...
“I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of...”
The balance between covering hate and promoting it is a difficult one, and one that we shouldn’t dismiss out of hand.
“Actual discussion of content, of issues that matter to Americans, is very, very rarely heard in the press. ..."
Hillary Clinton actually said the words “systemic racism.” Never in our history has a mainstream presidential candidate described our country’s racial institutions in that kind of language.
We should be demanding that interviewers in the media start calling out so-called "experts" when the experts are caught distorting the truth.
A coalition of trade unions in India representing some 180 million workers staged a one-day general strike on Friday, September 2, in protest of what they called the “anti-worker and anti-people” policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...Assocham, India’s chamber of commerce, estimated that the economic impact of the strike was $2.4 billion–$2.7 billion (Hindustan Today, 9/3/16).
