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The media are a culture war battlefield. Domestic and foreign policy too

I have lived it and I have suffered through it and I know that when people say “get in line,” there is no line. I am here to try to change the system so that people have a pathway and if they choose to become a citizen, they can.

My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.

John Reed was confronted with the choice between popular and profitable hypocrisy in the capitalist journals, and disreputable truth in the revolutionary press. He chose the truth.

Media election shenanigans, a backlash against QAnon, and more news from the world of tech and spectacle

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.