The Izzy Award will celebrate its 17th year this coming spring, and nominations are officially open for work produced during the 2024 calendar year. The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College (PCIM) will again grant this honor — named after legendary...
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. –James Baldwin In November 2024, a New York Times headline declared, “Turkey, Stuffing and a Side of Politics.” Soon after, the Associated Press and CNN followed suit...
A recent HuffPost headline captured the mood of Democrats after Trump’s 2024 election victory: “Shell-Shocked Democrats Stumbling For Answers After Loss To Donald Trump.” Similar reactions reverberated across major corporate media outlets. CNN reported, “Still-stunned...
“We are so screwed, it’s beyond what most of us can imagine,” exclaimed Aviv Ovadya. “We were utterly screwed a year and a half ago, and we're even more screwed now. And the further you look into the future, the worse it gets.” Ovadya, CEO of the AI & Democracy...
Disinformation, Hyper-Partisan Media, and the Perils of Big Tech “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do, Dana [Bash],” Republican...
Nestled beneath lush pine forests of the Carpathian Mountains in the quaint Transylvanian town of Rasnov, Rockstadt Extreme Fest unleashed its tenth annual independent music festival, their website boasting, “The largest and most monumental heavy metal festival in...
Unlike Simone Biles, who stuck the landing on physics-defying aerial brilliance, leading the women’s gymnastics team to a gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics, J.D. Vance…
Patricia R. Zimmermann opens her book “States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies” (2000) with a reality-check: “We are poised on a crumbling, frightening precipice as we edge into the enigmatic morphing media landscapes of the twenty-first century. Whether...
We focus on the fights. The left explodes in anger when someone from the right insults gender diversity or fails to criticize a racist statement. Understandably. The right stews in rage as the left scoffs at conservatives, speaking as if all are racist and homophobic....
We often discover new media fascinations in roundabout ways. In February of 2022, when filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki emailed me to ask if I’d seen Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s “Forensickness” (2022), I had only the vaguest sense of what had come to be called the “video essay.” I...
