“Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience,” exclaimed top executive producer of the CBS News show 60...
A March 2025 conference hosted by the Character Assassination Research Lab at George Mason University provided the occasion to examine how the corporate media perpetuated gender biases and polarizing narratives during the 2024 US election cycle, stoking the...
If the Government makes a mistake, the newspapers will find out and the problem may then be fixed. But if freedom of the press were lost, the country would soon go to pieces. — I.F. Stone (Originally published at ProjectCensored.org) Media scholar Carl Jensen was...
While sitting in a Safeway parking lot, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, inadvertently became a witness to a national security breach. The breach occurred when National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added Goldberg to a Signal chat titled “Houthi...
Operation Tailwind Revisited after CIA Report to Kissinger Released Picture this scenario: It is September 11, 1970. American commandoes wearing nondescript fatigues devoid of insignia and dog tags and carrying weapons not made in the USA attack a North Vietnamese...
At around midnight on the evening of January 18, 2025, TikTok went dark. For 170 million Americans, the endlessly scrolling videos vanished overnight in a stunning enforcement of a new U.S. law. Just 48 hours later, and much to the surprise of users, it was reported...
In its Misogynist, Racist, Newest Forms As we wait for Trump and his tech-bros to take over, the waiting unsettles and disorients. So, this is my offering for inauguration day. Do not passively submit. Do not feel helpless. Feel courageous rather than scared. Find a...
Trump’s cabinet and advisor choices are shaping up to be a who’s who of alleged sexual abusers and harassers. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has been accused of raping a woman in 2007. Education department pick Linda McMahon was named in a lawsuit...
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. –James Baldwin In November 2024, a New York Times headline declared, “Turkey, Stuffing and a Side of Politics.” Soon after, the Associated Press and CNN followed suit...
A recent HuffPost headline captured the mood of Democrats after Trump’s 2024 election victory: “Shell-Shocked Democrats Stumbling For Answers After Loss To Donald Trump.” Similar reactions reverberated across major corporate media outlets. CNN reported, “Still-stunned...
