The Times has really gone overboard in diluting its storied editorial and op-ed pages.
Source: Opinion | The New York Times Is Rapidly Diminishing Itself | Common Dreams
Category: journalism
More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.
By Jim Hightower | – ( Otherwords.org) – My newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears. But it has no …
Left-Wing Journalist Katie Halper Has Been Fired for Calling Israel an Apartheid State
The Hill has fired Katie Halper from its morning show, Rising, for describing Israel’s policies as tantamount to apartheid. It’s a blatant act of censorship to silence a pro-Palestinian journalist.
Source: Left-Wing Journalist Katie Halper Has Been Fired for Calling Israel an Apartheid State
The Historic Collapse of Journalism | Portside
I have never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It was a lengthy profile of Ben Rhodes, the Obama administration’s chief adviser for “strategic communications.” It was written by a reporter named David Samuels.
To the New York Times – “We Thought We Knew Ye”
In 1980 we produced a report titled How to Appraise and Improve Your Daily Newspaper: A Manual for Readers, authored by David Bollier, one of our
Source: To the New York Times – “We Thought We Knew Ye” – CounterPunch.org
RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index : a new era of polarisation | RSF
Within democratic societies, divisions are growing as a result of the spread of opinion media following the “Fox News model” and the spread of disinformation circuits that are amplified by the way social media functions. At the international level, democracies are being weakened by the asymmetry between open societies and despotic regimes that control their media and online platforms while waging propaganda wars against democracies. Polarisation on these two levels is fuelling increased tension.
Source: RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index : a new era of polarisation | RSF
How the Mexican Revolution Made John Reed a Red | Portside
In 1913, American journalist John Reed was embedded with a ragged band of revolutionary soldiers in Mexico. Few of them possessed a complete uniform. Some were shod only in cowhide sandals. They were camped out in northern Durango, sleeping on the tiled floors of an hacienda whose wealthy owner had been expelled by revolutionary forces.But now the counterrevolutionary colorados were coming to kill them all.
Source: How the Mexican Revolution Made John Reed a Red | Portside
1848+: The End(s) of History 