"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests."
If reporters want to convince the world that they are necessary to combat the rise of authoritarianism, now is the time to abandon business as usual.
When people try to fight for something better, we get a lot of noise about how that can’t work, and you know who else wanted social change? Communists!
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which faced legal action over concern that it consolidated too much media power, is now going forward.
"We sat around as a message to the future: not to close your eyes, to keep your eyes open, and if you see something, say something and take action."
US media have covered the anniversary of US troop withdrawal by muddying the US role in the country’s hardships--as though Afghan history began in August 2021.
Unable to change the realities on the ground, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking the next-best approach by trying to change the way the war is reported.
Interrogating the role of profit-driven corporations in today’s journalism is crucial, but it’s part of questioning corporate power over our lives in general.
"With every passing administration, it just grows and grows. And that's because, with this undefined threat, you can expand it however you want."
Friedman’s classification of Al Qaeda as “enemies of civilization” enables him to defend the selective curtailment of civil liberties in the United States.