Tag Archives: media analysis
Democracy Dies in Obfuscation, by Dorthee Benz
“The failure to name—and, worse, to try to obscure through misleading comparisons—what is plainly a threat to US democracy is a dereliction of journalistic duty.”

Supreme Court Crushes Media Diversity in Ruling on Lawsuit Accusing Comcast of Racial Discrimination
“What this story is about is, it’s basically — it’s about a series of black entertainment moguls who started media networks or television shows.”

Extinction Rebellion: Worldwide, the First Day
“We only get one planet and so we’re here to try and defend it.”
Henry Giroux on His Latest Book — The Terror of the Unforeseen — and How Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism
Money drives politics. We all know that now. But the other side of this is that it’s not just an economic system, it’s also an ideological system. [Neoliberalism] operates off the assumption that the market can solve all problems — not simply in the economy, but in all of social life — so it becomes a template and a model for all social relations.

The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong? by Matt Taibbi
The most enormous issue posed by the modern media landscape is the industry’s incredible concentration, which allows a handful of private platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google – to dominate media distribution.
Corporate Media get the stories wrong on the Amazon fires
Corporate media addressing modern day crises like the Amazon fires will never do them anything approaching justice.

Julian Assange: the latest blackout by Mnar Muhawesh and Robert Sheer on effects on journalism
If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.

Commonalities of mass shooters and prevention recommendations
We’ve studied every mass shooting since 1966 and found similarities that can help prevent future attacks.

‘Cultural Marxism’: The Mainstreaming of a Nazi Trope, by Paul Ari
What does cultural Marxism mean for the far right?
UN Says Assange Tortured: Watch the Webcast
Julian Assange was “psychologically tortured” by four nations ganging up on him, said the UN special rapporteur on torture. Watch the replay with Pentagon Papers whistle blower Dan Ellsberg, and other guests. Note: Included below after the video is the article “UN Torture Report: ‘Demonized’ Assange Has Faced ‘Psychological Torture’” by Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe […]

18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
Nothing published on WikiLeaks has ever been proven untrue. Compare that record to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or any mainstream outlet.
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