Latest Media
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Queally: ‘It’s Not a Threat!’: Trump Says He’ll Order Supporters to Disrupt Sanders’ Rallies
Donald Trump on Sunday morning went after potential general election rival Bernie Sanders by calling him a liar
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O\'Keefe: Bernie Sanders and the coming media revolution
Pundits and major networks ignore Bernie Sanders at risk of their own increasing irrelevance
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Levine: Voting With Your Head: Against Hillary
The Clintons’ lifelong project has been to make American politics as safe as can be for Big Business and High Finance
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Johnson: Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
All of these posts paint his candidacy in a negative light, mainly by advancing the narrative that he’s a clueless white man incapable of winning over people of color or speaking to women
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What the movie clarifies is that more often than not the basis for silence prevailing was obedience easily as much as fear or greed
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Johnson: The Sanders “Economic Plan” Controversy
A look at the Sanders proposal and the reaction to it
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Cole: How the US went Fascist: Mass media Makes excuses for Trump Voters
Not long ago, extremely powerful television personalities and sportscasters were abruptly fired for saying things less offensive than Trump’s bromides
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Sayeed: Chomsky and his critics
What is salient about the professional Chomsky hounders though is how little error they uncover
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Chomsky: Corporate Media and Activism
Interview on Corporate Media, their institutional role and which interests they serve in society
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Kinzer: The media are misleading the public on Syria
Much important news about the world now comes from reporters based in Washington. In that environment, access and credibility depend on acceptance of official paradigms
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This is a clear anti-Correa campaign being led by some US NGOs such as Amazon Watch
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Counting likes and shares is easy, but how do we gauge the political impact of our articles and ensure their quality?
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Tanzer: Media’s pro-Clinton Bias in Democratic Primary Fails the Public
Polls increasingly show that Americans are willing to vote for a socialist candidate
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Lewis: Stacey Dash Wins Headlines While Dr. Evelyn Higginbotham Wins The Debate
Actress Stacey Dash recently incited headlines by saying that Black History Month was no longer necessary
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Emersberger: Human Rights Watch: The Empire’s Human Rights Group
Human Rights Watch's latest World Report is filled with imperial assumptions and misinformation
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Cole: Israel: Friedman of the NY Times surrenders to One-State Solution, sees ME Apocalypse
Israeli colonization of the West Bank is increasingly an element of the Israeli economy, creating internal lobbies for the policy
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Solomon: Should journalists care if sources go off to prison?
The conceit that it’s possible to defend press freedom while turning a cold shoulder to whistleblowers is short-sighted
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Cook: The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian
A grand jury has been secretly arraigned in Virginia, the home of the CIA, that is dredging up long-discarded laws to charge him with espionage, even though he is not a US citizen
ZMag Media
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If Hillary Clinton was Queen of Chaos, Obama is surely King. Iraq, Libya, and Syria have been reduced to a chaotic state, and Obama has a heavy responsibility for these developments. There was also Obama’s widening use of drone warfare and declared right and intention to bomb any perceived threat to U.S. “national security” anyplace on earth.
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Herman: Western Aggression is the Highest Form of Terrorism
The U.S. invaders of Iraq in 2003 proudly announced a “shock and awe” purpose in their opening assault, clearly designed to instill fear; that is, to terrorize the victim population along with the target security forces
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Herman: Failed: What Experts Got Wrong About Global Warming
An important feature of Weisbrot’s analysis is his recognition of the extent to which policy failures have flowed from biased analyses that serve a small elite and punish the majority, and that policy successes have often followed the loss of power by those serving elite interests
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Chomsky: Rekindling the Radical Imagination
For the radical imagination to be rekindled and to lead the way out of this desert, what is needed is people who will work to sweep away the mists of carefully contrived illusion, reveal the stark reality, and become directly engaged in the popular struggles
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Herman: More Nuggets From the Nuthouse
I’ve long been intrigued by the ways in which neo-liberal class warfare is normalized and even made to seem an advance in social welfare.
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Greenberg: Race Curriculum Controversy
In 2001, I was hired to help open the Center School, a small school in Seattle Public Schools, and I began teaching the Race Unit in 2002. Drawing in part from a district-wide training on racism called Courageous Conversations, the Race Unit established safe norms for racial dialogue
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Herman: Soft Power Dictatorships
The New York Times is a very good newspaper, except where ideology and party line demands intrude. Unfortunately these intrusions occur often and are of great importance.
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Potash: The Baltimore Riots, Resident Info Beyond Mainstream Media
Despite the nearly 24-hour-a-day national television coverage of the situation in Baltimore, there was much the media didn’t cover. Some of these omissions, or facts only mentioned once and never repeated, appeared against the media owners’ more right-wing political agenda.
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Herman: Golden Silences in the Propaganda System
Propaganda shapes the flow of information in many different ways, including, obviously, the choice of the news fit to print, its placement, and the selection of authorities to make those facts credible. But equally important... is omitting facts and ignoring sources that call the chosen (often official) perspective into question.
Video Media
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Brand: Why Would Fox Defend Police Pulling Guns On Children?
Discussion on how Fox News reacts to the video that shows a policeman pointing a gun at children at a pool party in Texas
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Finkelstein: Israel’s Iron Dome and Palestinian Armed Resistance
Analyzing Hamas rocket attacks and Israel's claims of self defense
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Taibbi: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and How Legal System Covers Up Police Violence
New cellphone video sheds light on Freddie Gray’s fatal journey in a Baltimore police van
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Schwarz: I.F. Stone’s One Weird Trick to Do Great Journalism
If you don’t know Stone but want to find out why he’s so beloved, the videos describe his approach and some of his accomplishments
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Katsiaounis: Greek Book Publishing in a Time of Crisis
The Greek social and material crisis has forced many book stores and publishers to close while writers and readers are considering new political ideas
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
Audio Media
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...