
A Telling Tale of Two Press Lords
Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.
Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.
The media acts as if the development of nuclear weapons were a fait accompli on the part of Iran.
A study of three prominent op-ed sections highlights their byline diversity problem and the conservative tilt of the nation’s top columnists.
Much more effort is expended on figuring out what makes Islamic extremists tick than on what motivates the will to dominate of the United States.
We may not yet have reached our Tahrir Square moment, but it’s looming.
Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media’s presumption that the opposite would be true.
Pressures are mounting internationally for us to behave ourselves, as we have recently been forced to do in Egypt.
A former Martha Stewart Living executive editor gets a pivotal job at the Grey Lady.
A comprehensive overview of reactions to WikiLeaks’ Iraq documents.
A comprehensive overview of reactions to WikiLeaks’ Iraq documents.
One of the deficit’s biggest causes–George W. Bush’s tax cuts–deserves more attention.
“The late New York University media scholar Neil Postman once said about America, ‘We are the best entertained least informed society in the world.’ That was twenty-five years ago and after two-plus decades of more deregulation and the growth of conglomerates in the media, that trend has continued.” Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff will discuss how corporate news media distracts Americans from crucial information by replacing it with a steady diet “of tabloidized, trivialized, and outright useless information laden with personal anecdotes, scandals, and gossip.”
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.
27 years after the first Winter Soldier, IVAW documents the illegality of the Iraq War, its strategy, and implementation.
Facts and figures on the mounting human and fiscal costs of the Iraq War to the United States and Iraq.