Byline Inequality Matters
The editorial service I run has gotten less male but remains too pale.
The Truth’s Liberal Tilt
There’s no media bias in citing facts about Obama’s record.
This Economy Stinks Worse than You Think
Too many top economic commentators are drawn from a pool of talking heads and economists who treat the welfare of corporations as a top priority.
American Poverty, 50 Years Later
Poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.
How Questioning the Saudi Regime’s Legitimacy Got Me Suspended by the National Press Club
Journalism is in crisis and it must be reinvented for its own good and for the good of society as a whole.
Cuba Changes, U.S. Remains Stuck in the Past
Cuba opens its doors to religion freedom, while the U.S. ignores all progress in Cuba and Americans continue to live vicarious lives through their TVs.
Author Event: I Mix What I Like
In a moment of increasing corporate control in the music industry, Jared A. Ball analyzes the colonization and control of popular music and posits the homemade hip-hop mixtape as an emancipatory tool for community resistance. Join us when author Jared Ball discusses and signs his book hot off the presses, “I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto”.
Volunteer Writers May Be Part of Journalism’s Future
HuffPo writers need not only a platform–but cash as well.
NPR’s Stupid Situation
A string of high-profile blunders and trumped-up stings are endangering a key public and cultural institution.
Let’s Hear from Candidates–Not their Spokespeople
Can journalists give the people the information we need to make rational decisions in elections anymore?
McClellan Right: Press Too Deferential
The former White House press secretary is right: mainstream journalists were “deferential, complicit enablers” in the lead up to the Iraq War. But Congress surrendered its voice and failed to question the intelligence.