"What effect has the negro’s presence in this country had upon its history? Let’s see: If we erase from American history the pages that the negro’s presence caused to be written, it would be a short, uninteresting story."
Melber demonstrates how the indictment could be viewed as an aggressive and potentially chilling document for journalists in the U.S. and abroad
A look at the state of investigative reporting and long form journalism, a former New York Times editor details threats to an informed public coming from the decline of newspapers and the rise of social media gimmicks that beggar fact-based writing.
In the Trump era, everyone from comedians to pundits have claimed that “nothing matters”. MSNBC anchor Ari Melber runs through an exhaustive list of times when Trump has been defeated or stopped by facts and reporting. “In a democracy, things matter when we make them matter.”
Why CNN Fired Hill; Tech To Labor's Rescue; The Need For a Black Press; Regulating AI; News or Nonstop Lies?; Pretzels and Politics; NPR's Restless Temps
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted a doctored video clip from Infowars in which they sped up Jim Acosta's hand movement in an effort to discredit a reputable journalist. She should be forced to resign for this.
Tech Giants and ICE; Eco-tage in EU; Suing Trump; Net Neutrality in Cali; A Question of Balance; Scamming the Women's March
It also seems almost impossible that the United States intelligence agencies don’t have most, or all, of the information available to the Turkish authorities.
“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia,” Trump tweeted. A Fox News account proves him wrong.
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
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