Month

Archives: journalism

Does billionaire-funded lawsuit against Gawker create playbook for punishing press?

By Clay Calvert | (The Conversation) | - - Word last week that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled wrestler Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker added a wrinkle to a case…

Media as a Shark’s Pilot Fish (Political Cartoon)

By Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol's World

I Blame the US Media for Donald Trump

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez | ( TeleSur | - - The entire premise of an industry, like the U.S. media, is based on exploitation and political corruption at the cost of…

Berlin Pirate Party Leader Arrested for Erdogan Insult

TeleSur | - - Bruno Kramm was arrested while protesting against a German law allowing the prosecution of citizens for insulting foreign leaders. The head of Berlin's Pirate Party branch has been…

Press Freedom in ‘Deep And Disturbing’ Decline in New Age of Propaganda

By RFE/RL | - - A leading journalism advocacy group says media freedom experienced a sharp decline around the world over the past year, citing increasing government restrictions in places like Turkey,…

Then they took the “Info” out of Infotainment; Corporate ‘News’ Cashes in on Fascism

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Think of the 2016 presidential campaign as the political equivalent of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. It’s loud; there are plenty of…

Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)

By Kathy Gilsinan, Caitlin Cadieux, Daniel Lombroso | (The Atlantic Video Report) | - - "Americans are constantly being told that ISIS is a massive threat—but what does that mean? Are there…

The Way American Media covers Attacks

Sana Saeed | (AJ+ Video report) | - - "Why is American media so biased in the way it covers attacks in Europe compared to how it covers the rest of the…

Amy Goodman: Media ‘manufacturing consent’ for Trump over Sanders via Blackout

Bernieforpresident | (CNN's Reliable Sources Video) | - - "DemocracyNow! host Amy Goodman told CNN’s Brian Stelter that his network and most other mainstream media were “manufacturing consent” for Donald Trump by…

New York Times Edits Pro-Bernie Article Into Hit Piece

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | - - "Interesting development: The New York Times wrote a positive story about Bernie Sanders… for a few hours until they edited it…

America’s Groundhog Day in Afghanistan and Iraq: The Headlines just Recycle

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - With General John Campbell’s tour of duty in Afghanistan finished, a new commander has taken over. Admittedly, things did not go well during Campbell’s…

The Middle East reacts to Trump: ‘Strange Candidates’ with ‘Weird Beliefs’ & anti-Muslim Pogroms

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The meltdown of the US Republican Party is an unlovely sight inside the country, but what do people abroad think about the outlandish…

‘A dark day for Turkish democracy’: violent clashes follow Zaman takeover

Euronews | (Video News Report) - - "The country's "top-selling newspaper reopened on Saturday"following a state takeover and police raid. But the staff has experienced a shake up, with reports of editor-in-chief…

The New York Times Presents Islam More Negatively than Cancer and Cocaine

TeleSur | - - Researchers say they were shocked to learn that Islam receives more negative coverage than cancer. The New York Times portrays Islam and Muslims more negatively than cancer, cocaine and alcohol,…

MSNBC Sidelines Melissa Harris-Perry, hires Cruz Campaign Figure fired for Lying

Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola & and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video Report) | - - "Melissa Harris Perry walked off of MSNBC, and said they had been pre-empting her every…

How the US went Fascist: Mass media Makes excuses for Trump Voters

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The rise of Donald Trump to the presumptive Republican standard bearer for president in 2016 is an indictment of, and a profound danger…

The Failure of Aljazeera America proves that the future of TV is the Web

By Scott Bridges | (The Conversation) | - - Yesterday came the surprising announcement that Al Jazeera America (AJAM), the not even three-year-old US news franchise of the Arab media giant, was…

Triumph of Diplomacy: Iran, on cusp of Sanctions relief, releases 5 Iranian-American Detainees

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iranian news agencies announced Saturday that the government had released four dual nationals (Iranian-Americans with both passports). A fifth release was later reported.…

Media Blackout on Bernie Sanders Continues even though he leads Trump in Polls

By Jim Hightower | (Otherwords) | - - The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, found that Trump…