Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the "War on Terror" and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today's war coverage are dizzying to me. Civilians While covering Russia’s horrific aggression in Ukraine, there...
“The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible” — Toni Cade Bambara The American public is being told to get used to living with COVID-19. This means “we” are being asked to abide the inequalities that disallow a more robust challenge to the virus....
These passages are excerpted from the Local Journalism Initiative’s proposal to revitalize local news media in the United States county-by-county. Read the full proposal here. Robert W. McChesney is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
By Norman Solomon & Jeff Cohen A few days after the Nov. 2 election, the New York Times published a vehement editorial calling for the Democratic Party to adopt “moderate” positions and avoid seeking “progressive policies at the expense of bipartisan...
For one week, all eyes were on the U.S.-Mexico border. The conservative media was stoking the perception of chaos, a crisis narrative made for national television with headlines such as “Images of Haitian Migrant Surge at Del Rio show chaos under bridge as number...
If you get your news about politics from corporate media, you’re getting myths from journalists and pundits instead of clarity. At Thursday’s boisterous news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a reporter used the phrase “the two biggest spending bills of this...
We still don’t know the story of what happened and why. On the evening of September 10, 2001, New York police officer Adam Hernandez was on patrol in his Greenwich Village precinct when he saw a man smashing car windows with a hammer. It was a random act of violence...
Do you think following national security is something you should do, because it’s important, but don’t know where to start? I felt this way myself for many years. I’d like to think the topics and perspectives in this post are a worthwhile primer on starting and...
