THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE OF AMERICAN PUBLISHING
STEVE WASSERMAN In January, I wrote for the Winter 2026 issue of LIBERTIES quarterly journal a lengthy consideration of the state of American publishing. LIBERTIES was founded five years ago…
Inside The Independent Ink: Mr. Fish on Free Expression, Censorship, and the Fight for an Unmuzzled Press
ScheerPost Staff At a moment when American institutions are sprinting away from dissent as if truth were radioactive, The Independent Ink remains one of the rare spaces where artists and…
Erased by NBC: How Legacy Media Ignores Independent Reporting
Posted by Joshua Scheer Ken Klippenstein is a brilliant investigative journalist whose work exposes what legacy media often tries to erase. In this sharply observed Substack post, he details how…
Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Let’s Act to Defend It in 2026.
By Maya Schenwar & Negin Owliaei for Truthout It’s becoming something of a theme: Two massive companies are fighting to take over another massive company, in a deal that will…
Ralph Nader: What’s the Matter with the ‘Liberal Press’?
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org David Ignatius, a long-time Washington Post columnist on military intelligence topics, probably never dreamed his newspaper would fill over three full pages serializing his latest…
Sanders Proposes ‘New Deal for Journalism’ To Ensure Media Serves Public Interest
Nonpartisan, publicly funded media is "an idea that we should explore," said the senator.
Bernie Sanders Calls for Revolutionizing America’s Broken Media System
"We need to rebuild and protect a diverse and truly independent press so that real journalists and media workers can do the critical jobs that they love, and that a…
Media Narratives Shield Landlords From a Crisis of Their Own Making
As more people face the life-altering prospect of dislocation, establishment outlets have decided that landlords are the real victims.
Patrick Lawrence: The Non-West Coalesces
Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and…
Corporate Media Is Trying to Convince People Student Debt Forgiveness Is Bad
By trying to convince voters that debt relief will cost them, and that a more egalitarian society is impossible, corporate media are defending America's ruling class from an educated working…
Corporate Media Has Failed to Report on the Threats to Women’s Reproductive Rights
The establishment press ignored stories about the right's racist assault on reproductive health for years.
Katie Halper Interviews Bob Scheer
"Legendary reporter Bob Scheer discusses a long career reporting on war all over the world; Laura Hazard Owens discusses how to report on abortion in a post-Roe world; Andrew Perez…
Lee Camp: New Polls Show Almost No One Believes Corporate Media Anymore
A new poll by Gallup shows that nearly the entire US populace no longer trusts mainstream media. Is this is a wonderful or a horrible thing? And what's the cause?…
Lee Camp: The Shadow Bank That Owns The World
Who owns the world?
Media Support ‘Self-Determination’ for US Allies, Not Enemies
A self-determination claim that accords with Russian interests, and diverges from the US position, is concealed from the public.