Media Bits and Bytes – November 26, 2024
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The great X-odus
The great X-odus
The great X-odus
Friday Nite Videos | November 22, 2024
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Patrick & Claud Cockburn: A Legacy of Guerilla Journalism. Leonard Cohen | Everybody Knows. Bread & Roses | Movie. Nancy Mace Is Reborn as a Transphobic Warrior | The Daily Show. That Matt Gaetz Report – Should Still Come Out.
Patrick & Claud Cockburn: A Legacy of Guerilla Journalism
Prestigious publications have often failed to see when things were so clearly wrong. In 2024 journalism needs crusading journalists as much as it did in the 1930s.
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The Problems With Polls
The New York Review of Books
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
Friday Nite Videos | October 11, 2024
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Washington's Dream 2 | SNL. Jon Batiste | Für Elise-Batiste. Why They Can't Make an HIV Vaccine (They're Trying!) My Life Behind the Lens: a Year Reporting from Gaza. Who Do Trump Voters Blame?
My Life Behind the Lens: a Year Reporting from Gaza
Majdi Fathi is a freelance photojournalist living and working from al-Aqsa hospital, the only functioning facility in central Gaza.
The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates. A Decade After “The Case for Reparations,” He Is Ready To Take On Israel, Palestine, and the American Media.
New York Magazine
Ta-Nehisi Coates's writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. "I realized how similar what I was seeing was to the world my parents and grandparents were born into.”
Fired by MSNBC for Giving Voice to Iraq War Opposition, Phil Donahue (1935–2024) Was Courage Personified
Common Dreams
The journalist and TV show host, who died Sunday at the age of 88, made his mark on our society. He fought for the underdog. He did it with style and grace and a wonderful sense of humor. He changed my life and the lives of so many others.
Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024
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A crisis moment for media
How To Kill Children Under Siege Legally
South China Morning Post
Some of the most respected publications in Britain and America have resorted to obscure legal grammar such as the use of commas to justify killing children ‘legally’ in Palestine.
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