Category Media Criticism
Deconsructed Podcast: How Bad is the News? with Hasan Minhaj
The news is almost like the comments section on Facebook, where there is no, “Hey, we went to the moon.” Everything is a moon-landing debate.
Graduates of Elite Universities Dominate The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Study Finds, by Zaid Jilani
The researchers were hesitant to comment on what the findings of their study mean for the way journalism is produced. But the homogeneity of perspectives and experiences in a newsroom can have the effect of limiting a newsroom’s scope of reporting…
Don’t Forget Michelle Wolf’s Important Message About Journalism and Truth
It is up to us, the consumers, to stop drinking from the poisoned chalice of corporate news and seek truth somewhere else.
Syria – a case study in propaganda, by Chris Kanthan
In a democracy, the most important but least understood tool is propaganda. Let me share with you the fundamentals of a successful propaganda campaign.
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, On Seeing America’s Wars Whole, A Letter to the NYT
The key point is that when it comes to recent American wars, the Times offers coverage without perspective.
The Media War on Truthful Reporting and Legitimate Opinions: A Documentary
Those working in the media are up in arms over alleged fake news and they lament the loss of paying readership. But they have only themselves to blame. They are the biggest creators of fake news and provider of government falsehood. Their attacks on critical readers and commentators are despicable.
SYRIA – MANIPULATED VIDEOS FAIL TO LAUNCH WORLD WAR III
As we wrote yesterday… World War III had been called off.
Bare Facts About Gaza Demonstrators are Correct, But Rest of Story is Missing
Palestinians are not merely a ragtag collection of refugees; they are a people purposefully kept from their homes by an army of occupation.
Jeff Cohen | ‘The Doves Are Hawks and the Hawks Are Super-Hawks’
It’s a closed system. It’s a narrow system. What FAIR has talked about for decades is, we have a corporate spectrum: It goes from General Electric to General Motors. It goes from hawk to dove, but the doves are hawks, and the hawks are super-hawks. So you have this narrow spectrum, and if you don’t […]
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, A Memo to the Publisher of the New York Times
On Seeing America’s Wars Whole: Six Questions for A.G. Sulzberger
Chris Hedges and Abby Martin — Propaganda Buries Facts and Manipulates Emotions
How the US military uses propaganda in covering wars. Complicity of reporters.
6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak by Adam Johnson
Why do these reporters and editors take simple, straightforward events such as one person shooting and killing another and turn it into rhetorical highwire act?
Edward S. Herman: Master of Dissent (1925–2017)
Ed was the main author of “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” written with Noam Chomsky
How Trump Brought the Political Media Class to Its Knees
For the American public, trying to make sense of the most disruptive moment in American politics since Vietnam and Watergate, little is accomplished.
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The political media has failed to reckon with its biggest, most enduring challenge, which it has nothing to do with revenue or audience growth or cord-cutters. The political press is facing a crisis of substance—and it’s not just poisoning the public’s perception of journalism, it’s playing right into Trump’s hands.
FAKE NEWS ALERT: Media Conglomerates convince FCC that Facebook can replace local news stations
Driven by profits, broadcasters have lobbied to weaken the public’s access to quality information about their elected representatives.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Disappearance, a Body, and What It Takes to Make the News
The Journalist and the Fixer: Who Makes the Story Possible?
Perspectives on the Burns/Novick Vietnam series by a member of the MN 8 draft resisters
If we’re going to prevent future wars, it cannot be about us the victims; it has to be about us and our government as perpetrators.
After Russian-linked ads, put social media under the microscope
Our response to this new problem, partly made easier by the growth of social media, must be multi-faceted.
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