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What will writers do when the outrage is over? Will they go back to writing about flowers and moons?
My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.
The right-wing has effectively taken over much of the media, from TV stations to radio and podcasts. Fortunately, labor organizers and analysts are creating high quality informative podcasts and news shows.
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.
Among the topics on the union’s agenda at NowThis are pay and fairness, but also near the top of the list are diversity concerns.
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.
Even if it is exceedingly difficult to prove a negative, there’s little reason to entertain a lab origin theory when no actual evidence is presented that the virus originated at any particular lab.
The plot sickens on America's favorite dystopian soap opera - POTUS-dammerung
And why the Commission on Presidential Debates doesn’t want to understand it
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