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BuzzFeed’s Rosalind Adams set out to learn why America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain was under investigation. Source by source, she built a case that Universal Health Services was locking up people for profit.

A lot of Black people love Ebony. But love only goes so far for the journalists who make it happen, especially when the object of your affection is slow to cut you a check. Start by paying your damn journalists.

Journalists should not fear being on the wrong side of power. On the contrary, that is exactly where they belong.

Jay Caspian Kang, a noted Korean American journalist, warns the precarious position of minority journalists is under new assault as the mainstream media makes its adjustments to the Trump election. He argues the mainstream media that has already begun the hiring of pro-Trump voices, will soon be jettisoning the “identity politics writers,” it hired only a few years ago. It is time, Kang says, for progressive minority writers to “start building their own shit.”

Not long before Mussolini and Hitler came to power, much of the US press believed that power would "moderate" them, or considered them something of a joke. Are we seeing similar mistakes today?

'Freedom of the press is guaranteed'

There’s an argument that was put forth by an earlier journalist, I.F. Stone: “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” In my experience, this is absolutely a fact.

All the news that's fit...well, it seems the NYT news story has been tailored to fit the editorial views of the paper. There are undoubtedly many left of center economists who have serious objections to the proposals Sanders has put forward, there are also many who have publicly indicated support for them. He has not given a fully worked out proposal for many of his ideas, nor is it reasonable to expect a fully worked out proposal from a candidate for the presidency.