Almost singular these days, the Times media critic does a salient institutional self-criticism of a wayward reporter and the indulgence of top management in fostering a string of poorly sourced when not fabricated international news stories.
Emergency! The media are under attack - physical, professional and legal
Gaming and the class struggle, media myths busted, and more
How Labor and Climate Movements Deal With Distancing, and More
Ban Trump's "health" briefings! And other provocative media news and ideas
The evolution (or devolution) of journalism from reporting of facts through investigatory exposes to today's spread of Internet chatter.
Censorship, disinformation, hysteria and more
The cases against Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald may be models for a crackdown. The Trump administration and the right-wing Brazilian government of President Jair Bolsonaro seem to have decided to experiment with such draconian anti-press tactics
Staying above the fray by avoiding the facts is not a neutral position.
Objectivity may be tricky; fairness in reporting is not. The book author blasts the media for using a rhetoric of neutrality to marginalize insurgent POVs. Truth may be contingent on time and place, but leading news venues only serve power.
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