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With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers—and over 1.5 million copies sold per week—The Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century. The book author finds its reputation undeserved.
The documents are a bombshell. So why do so few news outlets care?
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.
For all the supposed threat Trump represents and the enthusiasm sparked by his possible impeachment, Western media continue to march lockstep behind his administration’s coups in Latin America.
Hearst joins an ever-growing number of media organizations that have been unionized in the past several years. But Hearst staffers’ decision to unionize across two-dozen publications will encompass more titles than almost any other U.S. media union.
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