Ralph Nader: Eight Things NPR Should Do Right Now
A few weeks into 2022, here are some New Year's resolutions National Public Radio should consider working towards.
NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange’s Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the "news."
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea on Pandemic Scare-Coverage
Following the emergence of the Omicron variant, pandemic scare-coverage reaches new heights.
What the New York Times Really Means When It Calls for “Moderate Policies”
The paper of record's call for Democrats to "return" to "moderate policies" essentially means they don't want them to challenge oligarchy — among other things.
Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — and Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
There are at least four different aspects of our daily American lives that affect everything from how we think to where we live — not that anyone in corporate media…
The Cult of the Vaccine
"The jab" is just the latest story to be reported as mantra in mainstream media.
Corporate Media Myths About the Chaos on Capitol Hill
If you get your news about politics from corporate media, you’re getting myths from journalists and pundits instead of clarity.
Ralph Nader: What Gives With Newspapers’ Graphic Artists?
Newspaper editors have ushered in a golden age for graphic artists, giving them huge chunks of newspaper space formerly devoted to reporters and news.
NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response
In an irony only public radio could miss, "On the Media" hosts an hour on the perils of "free speech absolutism" without interviewing a defender of free speech.
Liberal Media Propaganda Tells the World: America Is First
The arrogance of U.S. foreign policy is supported by the mainstream media, which echoes the message that we know what's best for the rest of the world.
Corporate Media Keep “Confirming” the Same False Story
Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.
Joe Biden Is No “Radical” Progressive Hero
The press is building an image of a "radical" progressive hero, while reality looks like the same corporate Democrat.
Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize
Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault.
CNN’s Defense of Chris Cuomo’s Special COVID Privileges is Grotesque
How can a media outlet credibly claim to denounce abuse of power by political officials when they defend and glorify their own anchor's participation in it?
A Brief List of Official Russia Claims That Proved to Be Bogus
The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to spread the propaganda again.