• Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

    Matt Gertz

    Media Matters

    Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

    Published On: 02/17/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

    Published On: 02/16/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism

    Rupert Murdoch Heads West

    Karl Grossman

    FAIR

    Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

    Published On: 02/09/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Social Media

    The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy

    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

    CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

    Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons

    The Guardian

    The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues (August, 2025)

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • Corruption • Journalism • Press Freedom

    One Courageous Correspondent

    Dan Rather and Team Steady

    Steady

    What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend

    Published On: 12/22/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    “Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment?

    Lara Witt & Maya Schenwar

    Truthout

    Anger and bigotry are profitable models if you rewire people’s brains to be driven by fear.

    Published On: 11/19/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic (Gift) October 27, 2025

    Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.

    Published On: 11/16/2025

  • Corruption • Journalism

    Epstein Gave NYT Journalist Tips About Trump, Why Did They Never Get Reported?

    Noah Hurowitz

    The Intercept

    Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Dark Forces are Preventing us from Fighting the Climate Crisis

    George Monbiot

    The Guardian

    Of the world’s 10 most popular online shows, a Yale study shows eight have spread climate science denial.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    2025 Press Freedom Predators

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the profiles of 34 press freedom predators who attacked journalists and the right to information in 2025. What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

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