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Trump’s New (Non-Democratic) Normal

John Feffer TomDispatch
What happens when the adults in the room are scarier than the crying baby? Who’s responsible for the last 17 years of American wars that have convulsed the planet? Babies? Teenagers? Grown men acting like babies? Let’s face it: perfectly sober adults

Marx the Journalist

James Ledbetter Convergence
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist. Marx was never content to sit back and let history take its course; he felt compelled to persuade, to use the workings of the news cycle as bits of evidence that his world view is the most sound.

The Press Barons Are Back and They Are Going Wild

Alex Pareene Columbia Journalism Review
Demonstrators protest firing of DNAinfo and Gothamist writers. The U.S. media landscape, like the rest of the country, is being reshaped by the whims of the ultra-rich. The Press Barons have returned and not since the Gilded Age have so many very wealthy individuals held so much power over the press.

Dr. King’s Crusade, Economic Justice and Media Consolidation

Bob Hennelly Salon
King’s critique of power was never purely about race: The collapse of independent media is partly what got us here. It was the independent and radical left media that forced mainstream media to cover the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, poverty and the fight against it. Over the last 15 years, more than half the jobs in the news industry had disappeared, media consolidation will quicken this trend.
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