Portside

Emergency! The media are under attack - physical, professional and legal

The Pentagon is using a moral panic over “fake news” to gain influence over the domestic news landscape

King’s critique of power was never purely about race: The collapse of independent media is partly what got us here. It was the independent and radical left media that forced mainstream media to cover the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, poverty and the fight against it. Over the last 15 years, more than half the jobs in the news industry had disappeared, media consolidation will quicken this trend.