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Facebook Gives Up on Promise to Support Local Journalists and Newsrooms
After a summit in 2019 where Facebook’s news-partnerships team announced a plan to spend $300 million over three years expanding infrastructure for local news, the company, now known as Meta, has spent the past year cutting funding for and downsizing most of its...
How Native Advertising Misleads Readers and Damages Credibility
In 2019, the Massachusetts Attorney General sued Exxon Mobil for deceiving state residents about the company’s contributions to climate change. One of the lawsuit's exhibits featured a New York Times-published piece of “native advertising,” paid content disguised as a...
Transphobia Is Bad Politics: How Republicans Veered too Far Right on the Campaign Trail
Despite all the economic woes poising them for victory, Republicans were not able to summon the “Red Wave” they were hoping for, resulting in a historic midterm election, wherein the party controlling the White House saw serious gains rather than losses. In some key...
How Mainstream Media Underestimated Democrats in the Midterms
In the final few weeks leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, mainstream media confidently predicted a "shellacking" of Democratic candidates, propping up Republicans as “emboldened" and forecasting a "big midterm triumph" in their favor. Corporate media seemed all...
NYT Downplays Assault on Paul Pelosi, Sparking Outrage
In the wake of the brutal assault on Paul Pelosi during the attempted kidnapping of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on October 28, media critics and readers alike have expressed their discontent with the New York Times’ immediate coverage of the attack, which seemed...
Opera Ithaca Festival Runs Through November 6
The inaugural Opera Ithaca Festival runs from October 22 to November 6 and includes mainstage performances of a double bill of Missy Mazzoli’s "Proving Up" and William Grant Still’s "Highway 1, USA" running in repertory with Giuseppe Verdi’s "Nabucco." Focusing on the...
‘I Still Dream About Being in the Newsroom Three Nights a Week’: Journalists Discuss the Decline in Local News at Suffolk University
On September 29, a panel of seasoned journalists and scholars gathered at Suffolk University Law School to participate in a discussion on the crisis in community journalism and local governance in the United States. The panel, titled “The Decline Local News and Rise...
Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral: When Bravery Gets Old
Social media has been rife with criticism of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, even from those members of the public who loved her. It represents money wasted in a nation facing financial crisis and the obliteration of all other news — not the least of which is the devastating flood damage in Britain’s former colony of Pakistan, which is also a member of the Commonwealth.
The Defense Industry Has Ghostwriters
As the U.S. and China ratchet up political tensions, media consumers should be wary of the spate of news stories that sell us on the need for the United States’ violent foreign policy. The Cold War is Back Reboots of popular franchises are all the rage right now in...