After much back and forth, NPR finally clarified its editorial stance on when it is and isn’t appropriate to call a lie a lie.
Action Alert: Asking Questions of Government Figures Is Not a Crime
WV state police arrested Dan Heyman, a veteran reporter with Public News Service, for repeatedly questioning Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
NPR Can’t Help Hyping North Korean Threat
In the US, news outlets like NPR claim to be independent—and to inform, as much as possible, from an objective point of view.
100 Days of Media Hoping for a New, Improved Trump
Nearly 100 days into the Trump presidency, corporate media are still struggling to reckon with the man that occupies the White House.
David Ignatius’ 15 Years of Running Spin for Saudi Regime
Ignatius columns on Saudi Arabia break down roughly into two groups: straight reporting and outright press releases for the dictatorship.
5 Reasons Why Trump’s Corporate Tax Cut is Appallingly Dumb
Don’t fall for Trump’s corporate tax giveaway masking as a tax cut. It will be a huge windfall for corporations and a huge burden on ordinary Americans.
WaPo Can Identify ‘Far Right’ in France–but in White House, It’s ‘Conservative’
There are no major ideological differences between White House strategist Steve Bannon and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
Why Is There So Little Popular Protest Against Today’s Threats of Nuclear War?
A terrible thing if it takes a disastrous nuclear war between the United States and North Korea to convince people that nuclear war is simply unacceptable
Fox News, the official state propaganda arm
With its sycophantic treatment of Trump, Fox News is “the closest thing we have to state TV.” And the administration knows it.
At Sea with Capt. ‘Wrong Way’ Trump
A rudderless ship of state creates chaos and erratically steers us into a feckless foreign policy. We got this obvious result for electing a toddler.