"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."           Thomas Jefferson

Unfortunately, this is the worst time for the media in the over two centuries since Thomas Jefferson wrote those memorable words. In the past half century the media have gone from being a check on government and corporate power to acting as a megaphone for government and corporate power. Other reasons for this are corporate takeover of both the electronic and print media, lack of resources,  "He says - She says" journalism which includes ignoring climate change, and the rise of easily influenced social media. 

The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future. Another good resource is Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

Help make your progressive case by using this documentation which is continuously updated. https://www.newprogs.org/make_your_case

1. Corporate Dominance

 

The corporate takeover of print and electronic media is illustrated by the fact that by one estimate just three corporations own 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, and 2,400 publishers. (6) Bill Moyers said, "In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of American media. Now that number is six." (13) This can be demonstrated in the print media by taking three random newspapers from across the United States; say Indianapolis, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Local news may differ, but the headlines and major news remain the same. The situation is similar for television and magazines. Fox may support republicans and MSM may support democrats, but nobody digs deeply and questions the issues both parties agree upon. The internet is not immune. BP brought enough of Google after the oil spill to have their public affairs "news" show up when "BP Oil Spill" was googled. Sites such as Huffington Post tend to print news that they like and not pay reporters for the "prestige" of being published there. Many supporting references are listed below. A good place to start might be references 624-627, 641, 654-656, 660, 686, 787, 850, 851, 854.

Perhaps the saddest example of corporate dominance and  journalistic decline is the New York Times which has slipped from an investigative agency unafraid to speak truth to power to a propaganda machine. PBS and NPR have similarly declined. See references 69, 119, 150, 154, 160, 176, 181, 189, 198, 199,  201, 231, 239, 254, 262, 268, 270, 271, 273, 277, 284, 286, 290-292, 303, 313, 321, 326, 348-358, 381-383, 392-393, 406-411, 425-427, 454, 529, 530, 532-541, 602, 603, 608-611,  662-672, 682, 691, 711-713, 722, 723, 732, 746, 774-786, 789, 792, 812-817, 829, 830, 833-837, 839, 844, 845, 852, 856, 857, 860, 865, 871, 882, 884-888, 893, 895, 897, 899, 900.

2. Lack of Resources

Corporate dominance is related to the second reason for a powerless press: lack of resources. As long as readership/viewership remains up, it makes economic sense for the stockholders to maximize profits by cutting reporters and paying poverty wages to those who are left. (2) (9) There is much less overseas and investigative journalism with a resulting decrease in both the scope and depth of news. This is compounded by over reliance on wire news agencies such as United Press. Journalism as a major is now discouraged and journalism majors go to public affairs jobs instead of journalism as the the only ones which offer a living wage. (9) For lack of journalism consider banks.(7) 

George Orwell said, "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."      Recently there was a report that there are now five people in Public Affairs for every reporter, double the rate of a decade ago. (432) Lack of resources necessarily means less real journalism. (790 and other references below)

3. "He says...She says" Journalism and Climate Change

The third reason for a powerless press is "He said, She said" journalism. Consider climate change. There is no real scientific controversy about it or its cause. (11) And yet the myth of controversy is kept alive by having "debates" between those who believe and those who don't believe. More often climate change documentation is censored or outright ignored.  In previous decades the basic science or reality would have already been settled and only real debates about uncertain positions would be allowed. The way corporations have purchased news to push a false climate change story is shameful.  For examples see references 15, 19, 20, 28, 69, 110, 123, 124, 131, 150, 152, 153, 157, 171, 172, 173, 180, 197, 208, 212, 214, 216, 219, 223, 239, 249, 256, 261, 267, 279, 289, 307, 313, 328, 330, 342, 359, 360, 368, 369, 372, 391, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 414, 416, 417, 424, 436, 439-443, 449, 450, 484-494, 531, 618, 621, 622, 629-639, 698-703, 708, 726-729, 737-759, 788, 801, 805-810, 827, 828, 831, 832, 841, 843, 845, 846, 848, 866, 877.

4.   Easily Influenced Social Media

The truth is further distorted because the government, political parties, and political candidates all pay people to post on social media networks to create false impressions and discourage activism. This is especially disturbing because with the decline of journalism many rely more and more on social media. The New Progressive Alliance has had bad experiences with Facebook, but it is even worse than we suspected. In addition to spreading known falsehoods about climate change, their algorithms tell users what they want to hear and play a huge part in disinformation and extremist groups. This applies to other social media as well. See the website The Social Dilemma.

Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, were used to censor both left-wing and right-wing critics. Fortunately after Musk took over Twitter the government censorship there has stopped. See the YouTube video on Twitter corruption and coordination with government, chapter 90 "The Twitter Files" of the book Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi, and references 902, 903, and 906. 

(The New Progressive Alliance experience is that Twitter, though still imperfect, has improved since Elon Musk purchased it. There remains censorship against anything opposing the status quo at Facebook and YouTube.)

See also references 241, 327, 376, 403, 459-466, 479, 549-565, 640-651, 653, 680, 704-707, 733, 743,788, 802, 803, 805, 849, 853, 855, 862, 866, 869, 872, 879 and others below.

 

Conclusion

 We need a free press to hold the government accountable. Corporate takeover of both the electronic and print media, lack of resources, "He says, She says" journalism, and easily influenced social media make that a difficult or impossible task. Other references about this troublesome trend follow.

References
1-“Officials say” Journalism
2-Consolidation Costs Jobs and Stifles Innovation
3-Average Television Viewing in Different Countries
4-Group Launches to Encourage Transparency & Aggressive Journalism, Help WikiLeaks Survive Blockade
5-WikiLeaks: Still Standing, Still Speaking Truth to Power
6-What 3 Corporations Own
7-Why isn’t this a front page story nationwide?
8-The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
9-Interview with a print journalism graduate from San Jose State University who prefers to remain anonymous
10-Continuous Wars
11-The Environment
12-The War on Whistleblowers
13-Bernie Sanders on Why Big Media Shouldn’t Get Bigger
14-The Windowless Room of the Current Event
15-The Elephant in the Room: Climate Change
16-Top 25 Censored/Under-Reported Stories for 2013
17-2012: Another Year in Mainstream Media Malpractice
18-Conflicting Reports from the Same Data
19-Debunking the Denial: '16 Years of No Global Warming'
20-Media Trackers writer ignorant of academia and climate issues, hypocritical regarding ethics
21-Muckraker
22-Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media: Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
23-Anti-Science Bills Weighed in Four States
24-Melissa Harris-Perry Buries The Lead Story on National Wave of Public School Closings
25-Obama Administration Quietly Reopens Case That Could Criminalize Peer Review Process
26-Richmond Fed chief nails Geithner for insider trading, media ignores story
27-Dumb and Dumber: A Secret CIA Drone Base, a Blowback World, and Why Washington Has No Learning Curve
28-For Times Environmental Reporting, Intentions May Be Good but the Signs Are Not
29-Freedom Rider: Hollywood’s Propaganda
30-Gibbs: I was told not to acknowledge existence of drone program
31-Journalism by–and for–the Sponsors
32-More Proof that News is Controlled by a Central Script Writer
33-MSNBC Doesn’t Cover Bradley Manning’s Statement or Guilty Pleas At All
34-I get blacklisted by the Duluth News Tribune
35-TV stations ignore ad disclosure requirements
36-Bradley Manning Called the 'NYT' and 'Washington Post'—What If They'd Responded?
37-We Are Bradley Manning
38-White House Reporter: Obama Administration's Press Dealings A 'Disgrace'
39-Digital Grows as NEWS Source
40-Censorship, Mercy & A Shortage of Resistance at Huffpost
41-Non-coverage of Largest Climate Rally in U.S. History
42-For Times Environmental Reporting, Intentions May Be Good but the Signs Are Not
43-Making sense of the news in a new media world
44-MSNBC Almost Entirely Dominated By Opinion: Pew Study
45-Buying the War
46-The Iraq Anniversary and the Washington Post
47-BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia
48-Injustice and Outrage and Dishonor and Shame
49-Judge Rules In Favor Of Journalists, Unseals Fracking Court Records
50-The Day That TV News Died
51-Pentagon Papers lawyer on Obama, secrecy and press freedoms: 'worse than Nixon'
52-'Worse Than Nixon': Pentagon Papers Lawyer on Obama, Secrecy and Press Freedoms - Career First Amendment and transparency advocate James Goodale sounds the alarm about the current president
53-An Anniversary Many Would Like to Ignore
54-“Exxon Hates Your Children” Ad Blocked By Exxon
55-Another Oil Pipeline Spill on the Weekend, Where’s the Media Attention?
56-As Exxon censors local media, citizen journalists document Arkansas oil spill. Can the pros be doing more?
57-Colorado Doctors Unite Against Energy Companies
58-Dolphin, turtle deaths a sign of sick Gulf: Obama Classified Gag Order Is Bullshit
59-Exxon’s Skies: Why Is Exxon Controlling the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?
60-Exxon's Unfriendly Skies: Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?
61-Arkansas TV Threatened by Exxon into Removing Anti-Exxon Ad After Oil Spill
62-Is ExxonMobil limiting media access to their Tar Sands oil Spill?
63-Media 'steered away' from explaining true 'detonation' in Texas
64-Obama 'Limiting Press Access In Ways That Past Administrations Wouldn't Have Dared': AP
65-War, Fascism and General Electric
66-Ways and Memes: PA Lawmakers Seek To Ban Photography Of Gas Drilling Activity
67-Are Geeks the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties?
68-Exxon harasses John Bolenbaugh and Tar Sand investigative reporters
69-How New York Times, NPR And Wall Street Journal Print Fossil Fuel Talking Points Without Full Disclosure
70-Highest Paid Public Employees
71-Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous - The claimed legal basis for these actions is unknown, but the threats they pose to a free press and the news gathering process are clear
72-Koch Brothers Plan To Buy Up Eight Major Newspapers
73-The John Stauber Interview (who wrote "The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats")
74-Priorities: Royally Screwed?
75-The Collapse of Journalism, and the Journalism of Collapse
76-The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital.
77-The news media is even worse than you think - Five corrupting influences are keeping the public from the facts
78-Todd Gitlin: The Tinsel Age of Journalism
79-Journalists Speak Out About How Our Democracy is in Danger
80-Military decrees media access to Manning’s hearing is a privilege, not a right
81-Why The Department Of Justice Is Going After The Associated Press’ Records
82-‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’
83-In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
84-David Koch fallout from New Yorker article; Koch continues harassment of journalists
85-Nation’s Leading Journalists: Leak Investigations Chilling Our Reporting, Hurting Public’s Right-To-Know
86-Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes - Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges
87-Press Coverage
88-Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? After supporters protested his “sham” trial, Abdulelah Haider Shaye would have been pardoned. Then Obama intervened.
89-Will journalists take any steps to defend against attacks on press freedom? Media outlets have awakened to the serious threats posed to journalism, but show little sign of doing anything about it
90-10 Questions for NBC Host Who Shamelessly Suggested Greenwald Be Arrested for NSA Leaks
91-America's Dirty, Global War on Journalists - Worst of all, Obama is being aided by a cadre of high-profile Benedict Arnolds within the media itself.
92-As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
93-DEMOCRACY: The U.S. press and repression in the Obama Era
94-Dirty Wars author Jeremy Scahill: is journalism being criminalised? – video interview
95-What Are The Gobshites Saying These Days?
96-Snowden Coverage: If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
97-Journalistic impartiality tested in NSA leak story - Some reporters who helped break the National Security Agency surveillance story reject the impartial journalistic stance that was a fundamental principle for a previous generation of reporters.
98-More Than 35 Newsroom Staff Laid Off at The Oregonian
UPDATE: Layoff list tops 90 people.
99-REPORT: CNBC's Climate Denial Is Bad For Business
100-Taksim Square Protests: 13 Photos Showing Severity Of the Protests
101-The failure of U.S. news media: The repeated failure of U.S. news media (CNN, FOX, MSNBC) to check government distortion has reached new heights. Why should these networks be trusted today?
102-The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism
103-The CIA: Keepers of the Hit Lists - War Crimes as Policy
104-Chris Hedges on Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
105-Did the Mainstream Media Fail Bradley Manning? - Alleged Wikileaks whistleblower says he tried contacting major newspapers before going public
106-Should Journalists Who Talk to Leakers Be Worried?
107-Time Magazine Photos
108-‘He Said/She Said’ Journalism: A Growing Threat to Public Health
109-A New Media Shield Law Would Only Shield Corporate Media
110-Climate Change 'Climate of Fear': Reporter Blows Whistle on Reuters - The media giant's hostility to covering global warming extends all the way from top editors to low-level bureaucrats, whistleblower reveals
111-For investigating private intelligence practices, American journalist faces 105 years in prison
112-Fox News gets okay to misinform public, court ruling
113-Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth, Not Career
114-How Do You Know When President Obama is Lying? MSNBC Won’t Tell You
115-How the Media Outrageously Blew the IRS Scandal
116-Court Tells Reporter to Testify in Case of Leaked C.I.A. Data
117-Is there a media blackout on the fracking flood disaster in Colorado?
118-Journalist Barrett Brown faces prison for posting hyperlink
119-Manipulated by power: What is wrong with the New York Times?
The government is manipulating facts. There's no credible evidence on Syria. Why is the Times pretending otherwise?
120-Marty Kaplan on the Weapons of Mass Distraction
121-Meet the “Journalists Against Journalism” club!
The clique of media figures outraged when news outlets challenge power has a new member: Washington Post higher-ups
122-Obama's Escalating War on Freedom of the Press
123-Reporters Aren't Drawing The Connection Between Climate Change And Wildfires - A Media Matters analysis shows just 4 percent of recent TV reports and 9 percent of print articles mentioned climate change when reporting on wildfires.
124-STUDY: Media Still Largely Fail To Put Wildfires In Climate Context
125-The Journalistic Practices of the Washington Post and Walter Pincus:
Fifteen hours after acknowledging that an innuendo-filled article is factually false, the Post still has not corrected it
126-The sky darkens for American journalism - The future of the American media is being decided in a military court, writes Chase Madar.
127-Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years For Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms
128-Corporate Media shown to be Rank Propaganda Arms: What the Snowden Affair Reveals About US Journalism
129-Court Rejects Appeal Bid by Writer in Leak Case

130-Keith Alexander Says The US Gov't Needs To Figure Out A Way To Stop Journalists From Reporting On Snowden Leaks

131-Mainstream Media ‘Balances’ Climate Science With Fossil Fuel Funded Propaganda

132-Mind Control Theories and Techniques Used by Mass Media

133-Obama’s Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press

134-Profiles in Courage and in the Lack of Courage
135-History is a Weapon - Propaganda (1928)

136-Report: Obama brings chilling effect on journalism

137-Should Poor People Eat? Let's Hear From Both Sides!

139-Silencing Scientists

140-The Shutdown and “He Said-She Said” Reporting

141-Dean Baker | The Tea Party and the New York Times Shut Down the Government

142-Top 25 Censored Stories from 2012-2013

143-Press group: Obama is worst since Nixon in going after leaks

144-Unplugging Americans From The Matrix

145-U.S. media suppressed 2009 UN report showing Israel using chemical weapons against Palestinians - Obama ignores Israel's chemical weapons abuse while targeting Syrian government that may not be responsible for recent chemical attacks

146-Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not

147-International vs. National Covers on Time Magazine

148-A Call to Arms From Oz to American Academics

149-Baltimore Sun's New Hire: An Oil-Funded Climate Denier

150-Confirmed: Climate coverage fell after New York Times killed environment desk

151-Editor Describes Pressure After Leaks by Snowden

152-Anatomy Of A Hit Job: Expert Featured On 60 Minutes Exposes How Show Knowingly Ignored Facts On Clean Energy

153-Researcher helps sow climate-change doubt: Industry-funded Cambridge astrophysicist adds to partisan divide

154-Has The New York Times Dropped The Ball On The Most Important Story Ever?

155-Everything You Need To Know About The Major News Networks In One Chart

156-Icelanders Overthrow Government and Rewrite Constitution After Banking Fraud-No Word From US Media

157-Must-read study: How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics — “The medias decision to play the stenographer role helped opponents of climate action stifle progress.”

158-Muzzling the Freedom of Information Act

159-REPORT: The Food Stamp Cuts The Media Won't Tell You About

160-Something Is Rotten at the New York Times

161-Stunning: Comparing U.S. and World Covers for Time Magazine

162-Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation

163-USA Today Lets Go Top Climate Reporter, Embraces Confusionist Bjorn Lomborg

164-Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State's Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent - Christopher Hedges, on the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond, says there will be no free press without figures like Hammond and Manning

165-“Chicagoland” Hero Cops Cook Books to Make Murders Disappear, CNN Pretends Not To Notice

166-Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward

167-After Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case, New York Times Reporter Could Go to Jail

168-An Assault from Obama’s Escalating War on Journalism

169-As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening - Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—dubbed 'NAFTA on steroids'—is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets

170-Barrett Brown: The Criminalization of Web Links

171-By hiring a climate disinformer, Nate Silver undermines his entire premise of data-driven journalism

172-Science or Spin?: Assessing the Accuracy of Cable News Coverage of Climate Science (2014)

173-Head in the Sand Approach to Climate Change

174-Chris Hedges: There are No Winners When People Don’t Know the Truth

175-Is Journalism Losing Its Nerve?

176-Dear Son: I’m Spinning In My Grave

177-Defying Threats to Journalism, Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Launch New Venture, The Intercept

178-EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Senior NSA Executive: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance

179-Feinstein’s Bill to Kill Free Speech of Independent Journalists ‘Has Votes’ to Pass Senate

180-Fox News and Climate Change

181-Glenn Greenwald Slams NY Times, New Editor Dean Baquet Over Jill Abramson Firing

182-How Cable News Covered The Landmark Climate Change Report

183-How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

184-WATCH: Huge Student Protest Of Pipeline Ends With Hundred Of Arrests, But Media Is A No-Show

185-If 100,000 People Show Up for a Protest and the Media Fails to Report It…

186-Infamous Astroturfer Pushes Big Oil’s Drilling Propaganda in Local Papers

187-Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent?

188-Is U.S. Media Coverage of Ukraine and Syria Even WORSE than Its Coverage of Iraq?

189-Jailing of an Alabama blogger: It’s worse than we thought - A New York Times report on the imprisonment of a journalist may have underplayed how chilling the case is

190-Make No Mistake, the Risen Case Is a Direct Attack on the Press

191-State Dept's Jen Psaki grilled over 'infringement of press freedom'

192-Media Figures Out American Climate Beliefs Are Outliers — But Do They Share The Blame?

193-The Neverending ‘Wakeup Call’

194-News Priorities?

195-Michael Kinsley’s review of Glenn Greenwald’s book is the worst thing The NYT Book Review has ever run

196-National Security Letter Case Shows the Absurdity of the Government’s Secrecy Rules

197-Neil deGrasse Tyson Chastises Media For Giving 'Flat Earthers' Equal Time in the Climate Change Debate - The host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey says 'science is not there for you to cherry pick.'

198-No Lessons Learned at the NYT - Mistakes were made on the Iraq War in 2003 and lessons have been learned, the New York Times says, but those lessons haven’t carried over to the Times’ deeply biased coverage of the crises in Syria and Ukraine

199-NY Times editor fired: Criticized Obama for being most secretive president

200-NY Times Reporter: Obama WH ‘Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom’ Today

201-NYT Slammed for Honoring Israeli Govt Gag Orders - Times Jerusalem bureau admits compliance with Israel-ordered media blackouts

202-Obama Threatens Pulitzer Prize Winner

203-Oh What a Tangled Web We Freeze

204-People Powered Media Mobilizes Masses, While Mass Media Remains Silent

205-Propaganda Through Movies

206-REPORT: Evening Broadcast News Shows Ignore Net Neutrality Ruling

207-Reviewing The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

208-Scientific American editor: Fox News wouldn't let me talk about climate change

209-Strike Two: Obama's Second FCC Chairman Fails on Net Neutrality

210-Supreme Court Sides with DOJ in Attack on Press Freedom: Rejection of federal appeal by New York Times reporter James Risen seen as crushing blow to investigative journalism

211-The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket

212-The Climate Deniers Are Using the Same Tactics as the Tobacco Industry

213-The Corruption of Mainstream Media

214-The Danger of Fair and Balanced - As the science grew more convincing about man's effect on climate change, it is as if the journalists were stuck in time

215-The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch

216-The Harper Government Has Trashed and Destroyed Environmental Books and Documents

217-The Top 25 Most Censored Stories of 2013

218-These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

219-Threats and Hate Mail Reveal Climate Disinformation's Dark Side

220-Today is World Press Freedom Day and we have problems to fix

221-Failure to Report

222-NY Times’ Jill Abramson Attacks Obama: Most Secretive White House I've Ever Covered

223-U.N. climate report was censored

224-U.S. press freedom plunges to 46th, placing it behind former Soviet states

225-US 'Silently' Stripping Open Net Protections - Ahead of global internet forum, activists say, 'Governments must consider the Internet as our common good, and protect it as such, with no compromise.'

226-US Establishment Media Neglects Neo-Nazi Role in Ukraine Uprising

227-Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us

228-Controlling the Lens: The Media War Being Fought Over Ukraine Between the Western Bloc and Russia

229-Full Show: The Lies That Lead to War

230-Israel arrests Palestinian journalist for writing on Facebook: ‘occupied Jerusalem’

231-New York Times Admits It Pushed Fabricated Evidence about Iraq, Syria and Ukraine

232-Robert Parry: Evidence for Russian Involvement in East Ukraine Based on Shoddy Journalism

233-VIDEO: Slavyansk Still Being Bombed

234-The Fog Machine of War - Chelsea Manning on the U.S. Military and Media Freedom

235-Coalition Files Lawsuit Against Idaho Ag-Gag Law That Targets Journalism, Whistleblowing & Speech

236-The Criminalization of Journalism: Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir Pens Open Letter in Defense of Jailed Journalist, Barrett Brown

237-DC Thinks It Can Silence a New Snowden, But the Anti-Leak Hypocrisy is Backfiring

238-Feds Drop Most Charges Against Man Who Linked to Anonymous’ Stolen Data

239-Why Did  NY Times Nate Silver Hire Climate Change Skeptic To Cover Environment?

240-WNET to Return $3.5 Million Grant for Pension Series

241-Yes, There Are Paid Government Trolls On Social Media, Blogs, Forums And Websites

242-You Won’t Believe How One Chemical Company Tried to Discredit a Scientist’s Research

243-“Objective” vs. Actual Journalism

244-Big Stories this Week

245-10 Big Fat Lies and the Liars Who Told Them

246-Australian bill will put journos in prison for 10 years for reporting leaks

247-Bad news

248-Claims that Hamas killed 3 Teens is turning out to be the WMD of Gaza Onslaught

249-CNBC Caught Soliciting Writer To Claim Global Warming Is A “Hoax”

250-Defend Journalism That Speaks Truth to Power: From Ferguson to Washington

251-Democrats, Republicans playing political football over Benghazi attack: Don DeBar

252-Detroit, Gaza, and the continuing erosion of traditional media

253-NPR Whitewashes Charter Schools and Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans

254-Editorial Position of the New York Times: Thumbs Up for Gaza Slaughter

255-Embattled Reporter: Obama’s Support for Press Freedom ‘Hypocritical’

256-False Balance Lives: Media Biased Toward Fringe Climate Scientists Who Reject Global Consensus

257-Free Speech Death

258-Georgia Republicans Have Citizen Arrested for Videotaping Them at Public Event

259-Green Journos Seeing Red Over EPA’s Climate Rule Roll-Out

260-How Israel Uses Twitter, Facebook & Tinder to Legitimize Murder | Brainwash Update

261-IPCC co-chairman says scientists being intimidated by climate change deniers - Prof Thomas Stocker says campaign to undermine IPCC’s fifth assessment report led by ‘people and organisations with vested interests’

262-Israel Makes Censorship Demand Of New York Times (New York Times Complies)

263-Mass Surveillance, Leak Investigations & the Chilling Effect Against Journalism

264-Missing in the American Media: Working People

265-NBC Changes Story on Israeli Bombing of Hospital

266-NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children

267-New study finds fringe global warming contrarians get disproportionate media attention - 30% of fringe climate scientists who say carbon pollution causes little global warming report frequent media coverage, vs. just 15% of mainstream climate scientists

268-New York Times Reporters Avoid Investigative Journalism When Covering Israel’s Bombing of UN-Run School

269-NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting

270-NY Times An Organ Of US Security State

271-NYT Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?

272-One Dimensional Press, One Dimensional Policy

273-A Disgraceful Day for the 'Paper Of Record'

274-Science And Journalism Groups Accuse EPA Of Stopping Science Advisers From Talking To Press

275-Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will

276-Sharyl Attkisson Says Journalists Have 'Gone Backwards' Since Watergate Scandal

277-Inhuman shield: How ‘The New York Times’ protects US elites from Gaza’s brutal reality

278-MSNBC Commentator: I Was Canceled Because I Criticized Network’s Pro-Israel Coverage

279-The Public Relations Debate About Global Warming Heats Up

280-These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

281-Top Journalists and Lawyers: NSA Surveillance Threatens Press Freedom and Right to Counsel

282-U.S. Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings

283-US Media Outlets Cite Israeli Military Propaganda, Cast Doubt on Whether Israel Bombed UN-Run School

284-86% of Gaza Dead Were Civilians (Believe the UN, Not NY Times’ Jodi Rudoren)

285-Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2007) (video)

286-The New York Times and Flight MH17 - With each lie fanned irresponsibly by the media, the probability of a major war increases substantially.

287-Why Iceland Should Be In The News, But Is Not

288-Why The Obama Administration Wants This Journalist In Jail

289-Why we care about the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming: The 97% expert consensus is important because it helps increase public awareness of human-caused global warming

290-The New York Times’ Coverage of EU Austerity Remains Pathetic

291-New York Times Public Editor Says Off-The-Record Meeting Raises Concerns

292-New York Times Ignored Teacher Input on Eva Moskowitz

293-Matt Ridley Returns With Error-Riddled Articles, As Wall Street Journal Discredits Itself

294-How the media shafted the people of Scotland: Journalists in their gilded circles are woefully out of touch with popular sentiment and shamefully slur any desire for change

295-Gates funding spurs doubts over pubmedia’s impartiality in education reporting

296-Citizen Journalist Arrested, Jailed for Asking Wisconsin Politician a Question

297-“Objective” vs. Actual Journalism

Although Anthony Noel illustrates with a local issue, the problem he writes about is a universal one for journalism.

298-Citizen Journalist Arrested, Jailed for Asking Wisconsin Politician a Question

299-How Former Treasury Officials and the UAE Are Manipulating American Journalists

300-Justice Department Bans Reporters, Non-Residents from Ferguson Town Hall Meetings

301-Media Cry Foul as Obama Attacks Freedom of the Press

302-Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers

303-What ‘Democracy’ Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition

304-From War-Weary to War-Hungry: Propaganda’s Triumph

305-The CIA, the Press and Black Propaganda

306-The Fourth Estate in Flames: Once a war-weary country, Americans are now rallying behind the use of force to overthrow the ISIS regime. But how did this turnabout happen within a year?

307-The media’s shameful climate omission: Sunday shows completely ignore historic march - 400,000 people took to the streets of Manhattan as part of the People's Climate March

308-US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis

309-Moscow calls on EU to abandon plans on sanctions against Russian journalists. It is beyond good and evil to punish people, who risk their lives in Ukraine for the sake of objective coverage of the developing events, a senior Russian diplomat says.

310-The Purpose And The Pretence – Bombing Isis By David Edwards

311-The Myth of the Free Press by Chris Hedges

312-Noam Chomsky - The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Part 1 HD

313-NPR Guts Its Environment And Climate Reporting Team, Becomes ‘Part Of The Problem’

314-Why are the media playing lapdog and not watchdog – again – on war in Iraq? - Fear sells, violence sells, war sells. The mainstream press just sold another American war

315-Fed Whistleblower Carmen Segarra, Snowden and the Closing of the Journalistic Mind

316-White House demands to edit press releases

317-Fascism 101: The Police and Media Control

318-Yet Another Example of How Government Uses ‘Legal Process’ to Coerce Reporters to Reveal Sources

319-Education Writers Association: Independent Bloggers Need Not Apply

320-Most Under-reported Stories of 2014

321-New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges: NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually figured out the truth

322-John Pilger | War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda

323-Censorship: From North Korea to the West Wing

324-Brian Williams – Just A Cog In The National Disinformation Machine

325-Chris Hedges - The Myth of the Free Press

326-Dear NYT, Better Teachers? How About Better Journalism?

327-Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA

328-Network TV Continues Giving Climate Change Cold Shoulder

329-It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street - Center-left pundits have carried water for the president for six years. Their predictable excuses all ring hollow

330-Manufacturing Doubt About Climate Change

331-Newspapers, advocates sue the governor and Cabinet for sunshine violation

332-The CIA, the Press and Black Propaganda

333-The Millennial Media Revolution Part IV: The Response Tells You If It’s Working

334-The Shame of US Journalism Is the Destruction of Iraq, Not Fake Helicopter Stories

335-U.S. Drops to 49th in World Press Freedom Rankings, Worst Since Obama Became President

336-US Media Dropping The Ball On Ukraine ‘Volunteers’

337-John Pilger | Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue

338-The Death of Truth by Chris Hedges

339-'The Challenge of Journalism… Is to Survive in the Pressure Cooker of Plutocracy'

340-Corporate Media Blacks Out Coverage of Bill to Overturn Corporate Personhood

341-Why Do Political Reporters Refuse to Show Us the Money?

342-Energy firms, health insurers deftly use others to spread propaganda - Commentary: the disinformation dance

343-How Big Media Ignores the Poor

344-Seasoned Investigative Journalist Exposes Inside Strategies to Censor News

345-Journalists Arrested While Covering Ferguson Protests Sue St. Louis County Police for Rights Violations

346-Marty Kaplan on the Weapons of Mass Distraction

347-Narrowing Our Options - Hillary Clinton's 'inevitability' and the media/electoral complex

348-Corporate Media Accused of Parroting Fear-Mongering over Patriot Act - Privacy advocates say outlets like New York Times spread 'government propaganda' by publishing uncritical White House quotes

349-Dear NYT, Better Teachers? How About Better Journalism?

350-Noam Chomsky on the New York Times' Media Bias - The media reflects, uncritically, the approved doctrine: that the U.S. owns the world, and it does so by right.

351-Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times -- Explains Why 'Paper of Record' Is Pure Propaganda: From Laos to the Middle East, a roundup of Times stories that piqued the interest of the esteemed scholar.

352-NYT Goes to Baltimore, Finds Only Police Worth Talking To

353-NYT Publishes Call to Bomb Iran

354-Our embarrassing, servile media: Does the New York Times just print everything the government tells it? - The paper of record is carrying Washington's water in its Ukraine reporting -- all too believing, once again

355-Hypocrisy Laid Bare - The Crimes the New York Times Believes Should Go Unpunished

356-The New York Times does its government’s bidding: Here’s what you’re not being told about U.S. troops in Ukraine - U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. The "paper of record's" "coverage" is an embarrassment, per usual

357-Always Remember, the NY Times Pushed, Hard, for War in Iraq

358-David Brooks’ sickening Iraq apologia: How the New York Times hack just rewrote history - The conservative New York Times columnist explains what he's learned from his Iraq war boosting: largely nothing

359-STUDY: Media Largely Ignored Climate Change in Coverage Of Winter Snowstorms

360-The Media's Failure With the Biggest Story in the World

361-Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us

362-White House still ignores murder of American reporter Serena Shim who filmed western aid to ISIS

363-US Government Wants You to Hate Snowden, and It's Working: New polls show that the NSA whistleblower’s popularity remains strong among young Americans and Europeans. But older Americans, Brits and Canadians aren’t as enthused

364-Wisconsin Climate Change Gag Order Part of Broader Industry-Tied Attacks on Science

365-10 Stories the Media Missed While Obsessing Over the Confederate Flag

366-5 Ways Powerful People Trick You Into Hating Protesters

367-ACTION ALERT: NPR Celebrates Fast-Track Victory With an All-Corporate Lobbyist Segment

368-Big business declares war on science: The secret story of the Chamber of Commerce’s battle against the environment, global warming action - Driven by a fervor for profit and an anti-government frenzy, the Chamber is a fighting force for the 1 percent

369-Big Oil Knew. Big Oil Lied. And Planet Earth Got Fried. New report exposes why fossil fuel companies didn't need the warning from the public scientific community to start a decades-long campaign of denial. They already knew their business model was a threat.

370-CNN To Be Paid By Corporations To Create News

371-Comcast Orders MSNBC To Remove Anti-TPP Hosts

372-Edelman loses executives and clients over climate change stance - Public relations giant Edelman has lost valued executives and clients by trying to play both sides of the climate debate

373-Elon Musk Strikes Back: LA Times article attacking Tesla and SolarCity 'fundamentally incorrect'

374-Comcast Orders MSNBC To Remove Anti-TPP Hosts

375-Exposing Cruelty in Nursing Homes, Factory Farms, Daycares Now a Crime in North Carolina

376-Federal government routinely hires internet trolls, shills to monitor chat rooms, disrupt article comment sections

377-Hillary Clinton Campaign Now Locking Reporters In Cages

378-In Boston, Media Again Trash a Police Shooting Victim by Uncritically "Reporting" Police Accusations

379-Internal Documents Show Fossil Fuel Industry Has Been Aware of Climate Change for Decades

380-It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street - Center-left pundits have carried water for the president for six years. Their predictable excuses all ring hollow

381-NYT Trumpets U.S. Restraint against ISIS, Ignores Hundreds of Civilian Deaths

382-The NYT’s 1 percent problem: Media bias goes much deeper than Fox News vs MSNBC - There's a reason the NYT's Upshot ran more stories on reclining airplane seats than on payday lending

383-Why Is the NY Times Basically Doing a Blackout on Bernie Sanders? - The New York Times' Sanders coverage is intellectually dishonest.

384-Sunday Times levels copyright charges at Greenwald after he debunks Snowden report

385-What The Media’s Getting Wrong About Israel And Palestine — And Why It Matters: MintPress founder and editor-in-chief, Mnar Muhawesh, discusses the profound personal effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

386-Why Do Political Reporters Refuse to Show Us the Money?

387-Ted Rall: LAPD Convinced LA Times To Fire Me After I Criticized Cops [exclusive]

388-Washington Post Promotes Dickensian Marketing Experiment on Poor Children

389-11 Hollywood/Pentagon propaganda films released since 2001

390-Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits: Political campaigns, as well as anonymous millionaires and billionaires, are spending more and more on ads to influence the presidential election — and network heads are cheering them on.

391-Greenpeace Sting Shows Academics Selling Themselves To Polluters

392-No longer pretending to be objective, NYT turns 3rd debate into “The Hillary Clinton Show” - The New York Times coverage of the 3rd Democratic debate revolves entirely around Hillary Clinton, ignoring Sanders

393-NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist

394-Washington Post Writer Finally Discloses He’s a Shill for Fossil Fuel Industry

395-Meme on Press Ties to the White House

396-Climate Change Denier on the Take

397-America Has a Hidden Climate Denial Network and New Research Maps It Out: Corporate funding has played a huge role in influencing our national conversation on climate.

398-Climate denial is alive and kicking say scientists

399-Climate Denying GWPF Academic Chairman Ross McKitrick Resigns In Wake of Greenpeace Sting

400-New Book Exposes Koch Brothers' Guide To Infiltrating The Media

401-Cryptome’s searing critique of Snowden Inc.

402-It's the End of the World — How Do You Feel?

403-Lessons from Occupy 

404-Journalism is not terrorism. Criticism of the government is not violence

405-Media Attacking Single-Payer Are Getting Paid Under Current Health System

406-NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist

407-Freedom Rider: The New York Times Covers Up American Role in Refugee Suffering

408-Losing Our Way

409-New York Times Gets it Wrong: Bernie Sanders Not “Top Beneficiary of Outside Money”

410-New York Times Post-Debate Coverage Goes Full-Infomercial for Clinton: Three glowing stories about Hillary's debate performance are perfectly aligned with the paper's editorial stance.

411-NYT Rounds Up ‘Left-Leaning Economists’ for a Unicorn Hunt

412-PBS Newshour Lies About Single-Payer Health Care

413-Iceland Forgives Entire Population of its Debt. Total US Media Blackout.

414-Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Academic Cover It Provides for Fossil Fuel Interests

415-Should journalists care if sources go off to prison?

416-The right-wing climate-denial machine is churning faster than ever

417-The Times Continues to Mislead its Readers About Climate Change Denial ‘Science’

418-Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, A Newspaper's Crisis Reveals Unreported Worlds

419-Media Silent As US-Backed Saudi Forces Starve Half Million Yemeni Children; The United Nations warned that 8,000 children could suffer from severe malnutrition in 2016. And that’s just in one southern Yemeni city.

420-The media are misleading the public on Syria

421-West Media Starves Truth in Syria

422-Journalists Should Stand Up for Whistleblowers

423-Obama War On Whistleblowers Paves Way For Global Press Crackdown

424-When climate deniers harass scientists, these guys come to the rescue

425-New York Times could have prevented 'suffering' in Flint, public editor says - Jan. 27, 2016

426-NYT Works Hard to Present Primary Race as More Boring Than It Is — FAIR

427-The New York Times embarrasses itself again: Grey Lady holds Hillary to separate disclosure standard - Salon.com

428-Don't Stop the Presses - The Panama Papers barely featured on U.S. Front Pages

429-Daily Kos Forbidding Third Party Discussion

430-After Leading The Attack On Investigative Journalism, President Obama Whines About A Lack Of Investigative Journalism

431-After Undermining Press Freedom, Obama Wants a Strong Media to Stop Trump

432-America now has nearly 5 PR people for every reporter, double the rate from a decade ago

433-American Police State: Secret Service Controlling Journalist Access to Conventions by Arbitrary, Secretive, No Appeal Screening Process

434-Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us

435-Canadians Sued The Bank Of Canada & Won. Mainstream Media & Government Blacks Out Story

436-Climate scientists are now grading climate journalism - Climate Feedback provides a venue for climate scientists to evaluate the accuracy of climate news stories

437-Column: Why click-bait will be the death of journalism

438-Comcast Orders MSNBC To Remove Anti-TPP Hosts

439-Conservative group is trying to take down top environmentalists

440-During the most important year for climate news, TV coverage fell - A report by Media Matters for America reveals that the media are failing to inform the American public on the most important issue of our time

441-Court Documents Show Peabody Energy Funded Dozens of Climate Denial Groups

442-Here’s One Way The Media Confuses The Public About Climate Change

443-The Relentless Attack on Climate Scientist Ben Santer

444-How The DNC—And Media—Conned Us Into Clinton

445-Farewell to Al Jazeera America: The end of the media empire’s US venture doesn’t bode well for American viewers—or for journalism.

446-North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open records request

447-Iceland Forgives Entire Population Its Debt. Total US Media Blackout.

448-Media Silent as Keystone Pipeline Leak 100 Times Larger Than Initially Reported

449-Kiss the Sciences Goodbye: Murdoch Destroys National Geographic

450-Lying is their business: Ari Rabin-Havt on the industry that’s grown to create and disseminate right-wing propaganda - Author Ari Rabin-Havt explains how modern conservatism is built on an entire industry built to lie

451-Media Blackout As 100+ Arrested and Thousands Sit-In on US Capitol (UPDATE: 300+ Arrested)

452-Media Silent as Massive Protest in D.C. Fills Jails Beyond Capacity

453-MSNBC admits: "We'll SUPPRESS VOTING to help CLINTON on June 7th" (video)

454-NYT Support for Nazi-Infested Ukraine

455-Spare Me Your Hypocritical Journalism Lecture, Mr. President - At an awards ceremony, Obama praises journalists. Back in the White House, he blocks honest press queries with all his power.

456-Pro-TPP Op-Eds Remarkably Similar to Drafts by Foreign Government Lobbyists

457-Ronan Farrow: My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked

458-Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists

459-CIA Agents To Troll Alternative Media Sites In Huge Propaganda Program

460-Hillary Clinton Buying Twitter Followers?

461-More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet – and she's already under fire for 'buying' fake Facebook fans

462-Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Super PAC Spent $1Million On Paid Internet Trolls

463-Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook - FEC loopholes mean Correct the Record can openly coordinate with Clinton’s campaign.

464-BUSTED: Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million on Social Media Trolls

465-A former paid “Internet troll” for Clinton speaks out: It was “nasty” and “left a very bad taste” (UPDATED)

466-Police Caught Spying On Social Media To Track Anyone Who Talks About Flint Water Crisis

467-Susan Sarandon Hits Bill Clinton For Eliminating Regulations Which Created Corporate Media

468-Elon Musk: Fossil fuel industry propaganda is 'unrelenting and enormous'

469-The Rise of Trump Shows the Danger and Sham of Compelled Journalistic “Neutrality”

470-The Washington Post’s revealing blunder: Their screwup over the FBI’s Hillary probe is a great example of why Americans hate the press - Post gets played by Republicans looking to sink Clinton by wildly exaggerating the number of agents probing her

471-New documents show the Obama admin aggressively lobbied to kill transparency reform in Congress

472-Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Has Not Been Good For Our Democracy - The media has become controlled by a handful of corporations thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

473-59 Journalists Murdered in Honduras Since Clinton-Backed Coup

474-How They Brainwash Us: The media's incessant manufacturing of consent for US foreign policies.

475-Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War - The growing scandal over cooked ISIS intelligence just got much worse. Now, analysts are saying they’re being forced out for not toeing the Obama administration’s line on the war.

476-What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? As newsrooms disappear, veteran older reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for journalism — and democracy.

477-World Class Journalist Spills the Beans, Admits Mainstream Media is Completely Fake

478-Your Turn: America’s Increasingly Vacant Newsrooms - Readers express concern that the Fourth Estate is in serious trouble -- and what that might mean for our democracy.

479-Groups Worry About Impact Of Police Moves To Block Social Media

480-10 Straight Minutes of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

481-A journalist arrested for filming a pipeline protest could face more prison time than Edward Snowden.

482-Snopes is run by a man and a woman with no background in investigation using Google.

483-Amy Goodman Is Facing Jail Time for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All. The charges against Goodman are a clear attack on journalism and freedom of the press.

484-A Plan to Defend against the War on Science - The challenge of creating a public able to parse evidence-free “facts” rests with the press, educators and other thought leaders

485-Climate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuits - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund is forced to defend climate scientists against constant frivolous lawsuits

486-Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation About Climate Change Being Spread Into the Mainstream

487-Throwing Shade: 10 Sunny States Blocking Distributed Solar Development

488-Has veteran climate scientist James Hansen foretold the ‘loss of all coastal cities’ with latest study? Former NASA climate director James Hansen and a team of scientists claim a mechanism in the climate could rapidly raise sea levels by metres

489-Here’s One Way The Media Confuses The Public About Climate Change

490-How the Right Wing Denial Machine Distorts the Climate Change Discourse

491-The Climate Accountability Scorecard: Ranking Major Fossil Fuel Companies on Climate Deception, Disclosure, and Action (2016)

492-Trudeau, Canadian Media Mum as Threat From Climate Change Induced Wildfires Grows

493-U.S Election Silence on Climate Change is Deafening to the Marginalized of the World

494-Who's Driving Climate Denial? Big Companies and Conservative Media

495-Assange Exposes the Truth About Corporate Media: ‘You Are Reading Weaponized Text’

496-Clinton Shills Need to Be Cleaned out of Mainstream Media - The media bears responsibility for Clinton's loss in the general election—they helped rig the primaries against Sanders

497-CNN Censors Focus Group Members Voting Third Party

498-CNN Claims Reading WikiLeaks Is Illegal In America

499-CNN Falsely Labeled Third Party Voters As “Undecided” In Post-Debate Focus Group - Mainstream media's dismissal of third party candidates seeks to convince the public that Clinton and Trump are the only choices available to voters.

500-CNN’s Cuomo Equates the ‘N Word’ with Using the Term ‘Fake News’ Against Journalists (So says fake news spokesperson and son of the former NY governor)

501-Colleagues Mostly Fail to Rally for Amy Goodman, Threatened With Jail for Journalism

502-Waiting for the Barbarians By Chris Hedges

503-Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest

504-2016: The Year Inverted Totalitarianism Went Belly-Up

505-Using Holidays As A Distraction, Obama Just Signed NDAA ‘Propaganda’ Provision To Destroy Free Press - President Obama signed into law the 2017 NDAA and its Orwellian countering foreign propaganda provisions — all but making censorship official policy.

506-Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans. Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong

507-Documentary Filmmaker Faces Up to 45 Years in Prison for Covering Pipeline Protest

508-Economists Keep Getting It Wrong Because the Media Coverup Their Mistakes

509-EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign’s Cozy Press Relationship

510-Facebook and Google Ready to Kill Alternative Media for the Government

511-Filmmaker Arrested At Pipeline Protest Facing 45 Years In Felony Charges - “They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”

512-GALLUP POLL : American Trust in the News Media Falls to Lowest Level in History

513-North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open records request

514-Glenn Greenwald: Mainstream U.S. Media is Culpable for Disseminating Fake & Deceitful News on Russia

515-Harvard Study Confirms Media Blackout Torpedoed Sanders Chances

516-Hillary Clinton Has Threatened To Shut Down Alternative News Websites In America

517-Hillary Clinton Vows To Shut Down Alternative Media

518-Hopelessly Incompetent Media Can’t Find Clinton Foundation Quid Pro Quos: Here’s one — and it involves a foreign donor’s very close female friend

519-If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama

520-If The Media Investigated Hillary Like They Did Watergate, We Wouldn’t Need WikiLeaks - Today, mainstream publications have become willing accomplices in suppressing the same type of information they worked so tenaciously to expose all those years ago.

521-Illustration on the Failure of the Press

522-Indians Staged One of the Largest Strikes in History, But No One on U.S. Cable News Covered It

523-Jill Stein Censored on PBS NewsHour

524-Mainstream Media Attempts To Defend Hillary And Attack Wikileaks, Fails Epically

525-Media Coverage of the Primaries Was Awful, Harvard Study Confirms

526-Media Scrambles To Discourage Sanders Supporters From Voting Jill Stein

527-MSM biased in favor of Clinton, now blindly supports ‘Russian hack’ reports – WikiLeaks envoy

528-The U.S. Government’s Psywar Upon Its Citizens Continues To Escalate

529-An Obituary of The New York Times

530-Black American Anti-Imperialism: an Invisible Subject for the New York Times

531-Canada’s New Climate Denialism: Subtle, Deceitful, Dishonest

532-NYT Shaming Of Gary Johnson Fails With Four(!) Hilarious Mistakes

533-New York Times Edited Bernie Sanders Article For Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

534-New York Times publisher vows to 'rededicate' paper to reporting honestly

535-NY Times Just Admitted It Hid Trump-Russia Story From Public At FBI’s Request

536-NYT on Iraq and Russia: Newspaper of Record or Journalistic Home to Intelligence Sources and Warmakers

537-The NY Times Got It Wrong: Renewable Energy Is Key to Fighting Climate Change

538-The NYT’s Out-of-Control Bias

539-The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton

540-Ukraine and the Dumbed-Down New York Times Columnist

541-New York Times Launches McCarthyite Witch-Hunt Against Julian Assange

542-Obama Quietly Approves Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act - "It owns all these not-at-all-important laws are smuggled into NDAAs that are signed on Christmas Eve with basically no public debate," wrote media critic Adam Johnson.

543-Obama Says America Must CENSOR Non-Mainstream Media News Sites, Like Us

544-Obama Signs ‘Farewell Bill’ Outlawing Alternative Media

545-Obama Signs Christmas Bill Making Alternative Media Illegal

546-FOX 2 reporter placed in handcuffs for attempting to cover city meeting

547-Revealed: The same Washington Post that accused 200 web sites of being puppets for Russian propaganda actually TAKES money from… Russia

548-SCRIPTED: Entire leftist media is told exactly what to print, what to ask and what to think by the Clinton campaign

549-A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs

550-Astroturf ‘Outrage Machine’ of Paid Trolls Floods Social Media to Counteract Negative News About Hillary Clinton: One supporter being paid to create multiple anonymous accounts does not constitute genuine support for Hillary Clinton.

551-CIA Agents To Troll Alternative Media Sites In Huge Propaganda Program

552-Collusion Between Facebook and Hillary’s Campaign Revealed in Clinton Emails

553-Facebook Admits It Blocked Links to Wikileaks DNC Emails

554-Fact-Checking Snopes: Website’s Political ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Just A Failed Liberal Blogger

555-Federal Agents Went Undercover To Spy on Anti-Fracking Movement, Emails Reveal

556-Ghost Banning on Social Media – the start of systematic censorship - There is mounting evidence alternative news providers are the targets of censorship on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and elsewhere.

557-I Was a Paid Internet Shill: How Shadowy Groups Manipulate Internet Opinion and Debate

558-If You Criticize Hillary Online Be Prepared to Confront One of Her Paid Trolls

559-Naomi Wolf Exposes Government Staged Terror Attacks

560-Newly Declassified Govt Docs Reveal Operation Mockingbird is Alive and Well

561-Police Create Fake Profiles on Facebook and Attempt to Build Relationships Along With Monitor Your Friends and Events

562-BUSTED: Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million on Social Media Trolls

563-Smearing Stein: Media as Propaganda

564-Snopes Caught Lying For Hillary Again, Questions Raised

565-Wikileaks Revelation: DNC Had Hillary Moles Inside Bernie Campaign

566-Study Exposes BBC's Deep anti-Corbyn Bias

567-The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying

568-The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins - As reporters focus on Trump, they miss new details on Clinton’s rotten record.

569-The Top Ten Under-Reported News Stories of 2016

570-The War on Journalism - with Julian Assange (YouTube)

571-THE WIKILEAKS LIST: At Least 65 MSM Reporters Were Meeting with and/or Coordinating Offline with Top Hillary Advisors

572-This Election Has Disgraced the Entire Profession of Journalism - Reporters queue up to submit stories for Clinton approval as Team Hillary delivers dossier on unfriendly writer

573-North Dakota Had 292 Oil Spills In 2 Years, Only 1 Was Made Public

574-Wall Street Journal Finally Breaks: "The Press Is Burying Hillary Clinton's Sins"

575-Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

576-Clinton Is the Most Dangerous Person Alive – An Interview with Edward S. Herman

577-Eye on Media: CBS selling us the White Helmets and more Syria lies—again, and again

578-Getting Real News From Aleppo - With Vanessa Beeley (YouTube)

579-Media misinformation and the US election’s war agenda

580-Milosevic Exonerated by International Tribunal, Media Is Silent

581-Provoking Nuclear War by Media

582-Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid

583-Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story

584-The media are misleading the public on Syria

585-WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived

586-WikiLeaks Exposes Hillary’s Stunning Connection to ISIS — Mainstream Media Blackout Ensues

587-Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

588-Washington Post Stirs Fear After False Report of Power Grid Hack by Russia - Story quickly falls apart after investigation finds claims to be inaccurate

589-Obama’s Gift to Donald Trump: A Policy of Cracking Down on Journalists and Their Sources

590-Post Urges Prosecution for Leak That Won the Paper a Pulitzer

591-US Government Calls For Assassination Of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

592-WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

593-White House, State coordinated to downplay Clinton email stories

594-Why We Need Independent Media... To Defend Us from Main Stream Media Fake News

595-Wikileaks Deniers: The New Breed of Conspiracy Nut

596-WikiLeaks Just Revealed Mainstream Media Works Directly With Hillary, DNC

597-Wikileaks Provides An Update On The Assange Internet Outage

598-Wikileaks Reveal That The Mainstream Media Has Turned Into Nothing More Than A Mouthpiece For The DNC

599-Wikileaks Shows Every Reporter on Hillary’s Payroll

600-WikiLeaks’ 10 Most Damning Clinton Emails that Prove Mainstream Media is Scripted & Controlled

601-‘Nothing to See Here’ Headlines Conceal Police Violence at Dakota Access

602-PBS Runs A Three-Hour Series Glorifying The DeVos Education Agenda - Funded by conservative foundations devoted to privatization, this program is the definition of paid propaganda.

603-NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard

604-CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat

606-The World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis Is Basically Being Blacked Out by Western Media - The United States is fueling a conflict that has resulted in war crimes and famine.

607-Scholars Say Mother Jones Distorted Their Research for Anti-Homeless Article

608-The Dawn of an Orwellian Future

609-NY Times Rewrites History of Iraq War, Painting U.S. as Noble Democracy-Lover, Iran as Sinister Imperialist - The paper of record advances an amazing feat of reality inversion.

610-Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017

611-NPR Attempts To Undermine WikiLeaks’ Credibility With Deliberate, Brazen Lie

612-The Stink Without a Secret

613-The Biggest Plot Hole In Russiagate Is That Nobody Can Even Say What It Is

614-Media silent as former CIA analyst destroys the claim that Russia hacked the US election [VIDEO]

615-It’s Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.

616-How To Fight The Establishment Propaganda Machine And Win

617-Fred Fuentes: Media Lies About Venezuela

618-Science journalist retires at 98 and warns of generation of Americans who suffer from a thinking 'disability’

619-CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat

620-After Hersh Investigation, Media Connive in Propaganda War on Syria

621-How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

622-Joining Forces for Honest Environmental Journalism

623-To Protect CNN's Image, google Removed over 15,000 One Star Reviews

624-Former MSNBC journalists expose the channel’s ‘pro-establishment bias’

625-Caveat Emptor: MSNBC and CNN Use CIA Apologists for False Commentary

626-Tesla is under attack by same ‘merchants of doubt’ behind tobacco industry and climate change denial

627-The Disinformation Playbook - How Business Interests Deceive, Misinform, and Buy Influence at the Expense of Public Health and Safety

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629-Why Are The Crucial Questions About Hurricane Harvey Not Being Asked?

630-ABC and NBC aren’t telling viewers what’s really going on with 2017’s mega-hurricanes - 18 million people didn't hear a single word about climate change after Harvey from the nation's most-watched news programs.

631-George Monbiot: We Can’t Be Silent on Climate Change or the Unsustainability of Capitalist System

632-Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil

633-I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist: A committed scientist and climate science communicator relates her decades-earlier 'unique experience' as an Exxon-funded researcher and the company's 'agenda for our research.'

634-Watch scientists react to deceptive fossil fuel ads

635-Will Mainstream Media Be Duped in 2018 by Climate Denial Spin Doctors?

636-MSNBC loses connection to reporter as he goes off on oil industry for robbing locals of infrastructure funds

637-Newsweek Gives Cato Institute Climate Denier A Platform

638-Planet Will Burn Before Corporate Media Covers Climate Change as Existential Threat  (YouTube)

639-These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to it? A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences

640-How Online Trolls Pushing for Regime Change in Syria Helped Popularize Trump’s Attack on the ‘Alt-Left’ - A motley crew of toxic interventionists were pioneers in attacking the traditional anti-war left with the term.

641-Corporate Powers Are Stealing Online Identities, Posting Fake Comments to Push for Consumer Law Repeals - At least five federal agencies targeted, from internet protections to predatory lending and investments.

642-Do You Trust Snopes? You Won’t After Reading This.

643-Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments

644-The Justice Department Helped a County Prosecutor Target the Facebook Records of Anti-Pipeline Activists

645-Memo to Berkeley: Stop confusing “free speech” with “subsidized speech” - The right is winning the culture wars on this because of a mistaken understanding of what makes speech “free”

646-Reclaim Online Privacy: Alternatives To Facebook, Twitter & Google - People are targeted by the government just for visiting a web page or liking a page on Facebook.

647-Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media - Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

648-Mark Zuckerberg: Under Orders Of Israeli And U.S. Governments,Facebook Will Delete Anti-Israel Accounts

649-5 Revelations About The Black Market For Fake Social Media Followers

650-How Israel and its partisans work to censor the Internet

651-The War on Dissent

652-Journalists Caught Lying To Protect Clinton Over DNC Agreement (YouTube)

653-Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And 'Media Influencers'

654-Editorial: Google's Threat to Democracy Hits AlterNet Hard: We all need to stand up and push back against Google's monopoly on steroids.

655-Elites ‘Have No Credibility Left’: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges

656-Google escalates blacklisting of left-wing web sites and journalists

657-Ignoring Washington’s Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior

658-In Month After Charlottesville, Papers Spent as Much Time Condemning Anti-Nazis as Nazis

659-Journalists continue to be targets, metaphorical and real

660-Media’s corporate donations, reporters-turned-candidates and staff blur line between press and party.

661-Network newscasts don't mention Brazile Clinton-DNC revelations

662-The New York Times Grovels for the Right Wing, and Other Despicable Media Moments This Week - Instead of conveying reality, corporate media pushes their own shoddy agendas.

663-For NYT, Making the Democrats Safe for the Oligarchy Is Literally Job One

664-Has the NYT Gone Collectively Mad?

665-Man Bites Dog: NYT Does Journalism

666-The Biggest Secret - My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror

667-NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors’ Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina

668-NYT’s Assault on Press Freedom

669-The New York Times just taught us how not to profile a Nazi sympathizer - A puff piece that whitewashes the impacts of Nazism in middle America. This isn’t the white working class

670-The New York Times made a cringeworthy mistake that says it all about how the media misrepresents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

671-In ‘NYT,’ Israeli minister calls BDS activists ‘enemy soldiers’ and compares them to Nazis

672-On Seeing America's Wars Whole

673-6 of the Biggest Media Meltdowns This Week - A New York Post column casually calls for nuking North Korea... and much more.

674-Russia-gate Jumps the Shark

675-Suddenly, I’m a ‘Russian Agent’!

676-The Disgrace of ‘60 Minutes’ - Steve Bannon gets a bully platform and runs rings around Charlie Rose.

677-The Media Establishment Feigns Outrage Over Trump's Crew, But Rest Assured They Will Join the Club - Sean Spicer's Emmys cameo is a harrowing glimpse of things to come.

678-Trump's Media Pals Are Busy Creating a Left-Wing 'Threat' to Balance Out the Awful Racist Right-Wing Hordes That Threaten Civil Society - We have to be vigilant about the coming smear project against Antifa.

679-In Washington Speak, Censorship Is Called “Transparency” - Federal agencies have been subtly controlling the flow of scientific information to the press, even as their media policies preach openness

680-UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it

681-Thugs and Journalists

682-NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians

683-Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact - From accusations of Trump campaign collusion to Russian Facebook ad buys, the media has substituted hype for evidence.

684-Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

685-Assassins Kill ‘Panama Papers’ Journalist Who Linked Ivanka Trump To Russian Money Launderers

686-WikiLeaks Exposes How Council on Foreign Relations Controls Most All Mainstream Media - A single organization controls almost everything you see, hear, and read in the media and they've been handpicking your leaders for decades.

687-WPost Pushes More Dubious Russia-bashing

688-The Silencing of Dissent

689-Behind the Guise of Adversarial Journalism, CNN’s Jake Tapper Is Taking America to War

690-Gerald Feierstein, a Gulf-Funded Expert Pushing Catastrophic War on Yemen, Appears to Have Lied to Congress - A widely quoted Middle East Institute director is paid to advance the U.S.-Gulf war on Yemen.

691-NYT Laments ‘Forever Wars’ Its Editorials Helped Create

692-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The CIA and Me 

693-Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Disappearance, a Body, and What It Takes to Make the News 

694-Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela? - A right-wing insurgency, with the United States' backing, threatens a fragile democracy.

695-Pundits And Politicians Are Tacitly Admitting That They Lied About Russia

696-‘The Atlantic’ Commits Malpractice, Selectively Edits To Smear WikiLeaks

697-MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Sees a “Russia Connection” Lurking Around Every Corner

698-Truthsquading: Books and reports on the denial and obstruction of climate science

699-Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”

700-Elon Musk and the Corporate Controlled Media When advertisers are calling the shots, don't call it journalism

701-How Did the End of the World Become Old News?

702-Media malpractice and the bitumen bubble

703-The Media’s Failure to Connect the Dots on Climate Change Why are some major news outlets still covering extreme weather like it's an act of God?

704-Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers

705-Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom

706-Expert: Bots are poised to wreak havoc in the 2018 midterm elections

707-Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

708-The War on Tesla, Musk, and the Fight for the Future

709-Mass Media Propaganda Is The Only Thing Keeping Us From Rising Like Lions

710-MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics. It Encourages and Rewards Them.

711-Graduates of Elite Universities Dominate the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Study Finds

712-Soros buys up shares in New York Times

713-‘NYT’ columnist says killing Palestinian civilians is… good for Palestinians

714-This Award-Winning Cartoonist Was Just Fired After 25 Years Because of Political Cartoons Critical of Trump The newspaper has become a propaganda rag for the Trump administration.

715-WaPo Positions Support for Torturer as Vote for Feminism

716-Media Delegitimize Venezuelan Elections Amid Complete Unanimity Of Outlook

717-Of Fake News and History Suborned (In War and Peace) by Greg Maybury

718-The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case

719-The Guardian Publishes Smear Against Isolated, Arbitrarily Confined Journalist Julian Assange

720-Alternate News Sources

721-First thing we do, let’s kill all the experts - Tom Nichols' book describes how experts are no longer ignored—they're attacked.

722-The New York Times Should Hire Climate Scientist Michael Mann as Op-Ed Columnist on Global Warming - It would help the Times make amends to its readers and everyone else for its short coverage of global warming over the years.

723-New York Times ramps up smear campaign against Julian Assange

724-Please Call Me Doctor

725-The Baseless Claim that climate Scientists are "Driven" by Money

726-Climate change needs ever-increasing attention. It didn't get it from mainstream media in 2018.

727-Conway and Oreskes Merchants of Doubt:Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming 2011 book, 2014 video documentary, “There can be no science without doubt: brute dogma leaves no room for inquiry. But over the last half century, a tiny minority of scientists have wielded doubt as a political weapon to halt what they did not want said: that tobacco kills or that the climate is warming because of what we humans are doing...It is clear, scientifically responsible, and historically compelling--it is an essential and passionate book about our times.” ―Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University, author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps

728-How the fossil fuel industry got the media to think climate change was debatable

729-Climate Denial Efforts Target Media, Cities Filing Liability Suits

730-UN Torture Report: ‘Demonized’ Assange Has Faced ‘Psychological Torture’ - The UN special rapporteur on torture has blasted four nations for imposing psychological torture on Julian Assange. 

731-‘Nothing!’ Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange

732-Corporate Journalists Push Tax Attack on Medicare for All

733-Climate change deniers dominate YouTube searches on warming crisis, study finds

734-After Assange’s Espionage Act Indictment, Police Move Against More Journalists for Publishing Classified Material

735-After Exposing 'Corrupted' Brazilian Government, Journalist Glenn Greenwald Faces Deportation Warning and Death Threats

736-Australian media workers denounce police raids  “Is there going to be a future for journalism?”

737-‘The most villainous act in the history of human civilization.’ Michael E Mann speaks out

738-A Million Extinctions Eclipsed by One Royal Grandbaby

739-Canada election: Charity confused against climate change ads

740-Climate Change Is Impacting Every Aspect of Modern Life, But the Press Fails to “Connect the Dots”

741-Harvard scientists took Exxon’s challenge; found it using the tobacco playbook  A new study finds a stark contrast between Exxon’s research and what the company told the public

742-Here are two big things that were wrong with climate change coverage in 2018    Major outlets reported too little on climate change driving extreme weather and too much on Trump, two analyses find

743-How Facebook and YouTube try to Silence Climate State!

744-Media Failed to Connect Climate Crisis and Utility Blackouts

745-Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement - Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement

746-According to NYT, ‘Relentless Flooding’ in Midwest Just Happens

747-Only 10 of 170 questions at the first Democratic primary debates were about the climate crisis, making it obvious we need a climate debate Less than 6% of questions focused on climate, and half of candidates weren't asked about it at all

748-Only 6% of the questions at the first Democratic primary debate were about climate change -- and they weren't great  Five of 10 candidates on stage were not asked about climate change at all

749-Revealed: How the Tobacco and Fossil Fuel Industries Fund Disinformation Campaigns Around the World

750-Revealed: top UK thinktank spent decades undermining climate science - Institute of Economic Affairs has links to 14 members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet

751-The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns

752-The Media Uses Coal Miners To Attack the Green New Deal—Then Ignores Their Pension Fight   In 34 stories about coal miners, the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico did not once cover miners’ pension and healthcare demands

753-The Vancouver Sun’s Op-ed Denying a Climate Crisis a Symbol of Wider Journalistic Malpractice  A journalist’s role is to seek truth, especially in the face of an emergency. But the media is not doing its job.

754-The Worst Environmentalists in the World - The New York chapter of the League of Conservation Voters is a cesspool of fossil fuel greenwashing.

755-Treat climate change like the crisis it is, says journalism professor - Sean Holman gives the Canadian media a failing grade for their coverage of the climate crisis

756-Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job

757-U.S. Has the Most Climate-Change Deniers of Any Rich Country: Survey

758-What if we covered the climate crisis like we did the start of the second world war? Bill Moyers

759-Why are the US news media so bad at covering climate change?  The US news media devote startlingly little time to climate change – how can newsrooms cover it in ways that will finally resonate with their audiences?

760-Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi: The Deep Rot That Infects American Journalism, Part 1

761-CNN Retracts Pedophile Claim Against Assange After Wikileaks Threatens Lawsuit     “An analyst on our air earlier today asserted that Julian Assange was a pedophile, and regrets saying it. In fact, CNN has no evidence to support that assertion.”

762-Corporate Censorship Is a Serious, and Mostly Invisible, Threat to Publishing  When states suppress ideas, we condemn it. What should we do when companies do the same?

763-Corporate Media Filled With Nameless Voices Attacking Progressive Democrats

764-Don’t Be Fooled: Media Still Selling Out Assange

765-Former Newspaper Editor Who Exposed CIA Found Dead

766-Has Mainstream Media Been Fair To Elon Musk & Tesla?

767-Macron pursuing journalists who exposed French complicity in possible Saudi war crimes in Yemen

768-Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights

769-Max Blumenthal Arrest Exposes Hypocrisy of Western Media and ‘Human Rights’ NGOs

770-Media Continue to Push Misinformation About Venezuela and Drug Trafficking

771-More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide

772-NBC Debate Questions Show Media Is Out of Touch With Voters

773-NEW DATA: Media Ignoring Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Gravel 2020 Campaigns - Despite The Media Blackout, Their Support Is Only Rising

774-Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio?

775-‘NY Times’ disgracefully joins the propaganda campaign to push for war against Iran

776-‘NYT’ readers call out the newspaper for abetting war against Iraq and now Iran

777-‘Protests turn violent’ with ‘gunfire’ — PBS lies about its own report on Israeli attacks in Gaza

778-According to NYT, 'Relentless Flooding' in Midwest Just Happens - The Times failed to link the floods overwhelming the city with a changing climate

779-CNN and the New York Times skip climate change in the fourth Democratic debate

780-Michelle Alexander explodes an open secret in the ‘NYT’: progressives keep quiet about Palestine out of fear for their careers

781-New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval

782-New York Times Persists in Russia Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory

783-New York Times Provides Cover for Austerity Cranks

784-NY Times admits it sends stories to US Government for approval before publication.

785-NYT Parrots US Propaganda on Hezbollah in Venezuela

786-NYT Presents Social Security Cuts as ‘Solution’ to Problem of Social Security Cuts

787-Revealed: How the Tobacco and Fossil Fuel Industries Fund Disinformation Campaigns Around the World

788-Facebook’s newest ‘fact checkers’ are Koch-funded climate deniers-The fatal flaw in Zuckerberg’s effort to deal with fake news.

789-Student journalists at Northwestern apologized for photographing protesters. Then, the backlash began.

790-The Death of a Foreign Correspondent  The death of freelance journalist Arnaud Dubus symbolizes the demise of his beloved profession. 

791-The Guardian's War on AssangeThe Guardian's war on Assange

792-There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press

793-UN official’s briefing on torture of Assange boycotted by US media

794-United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time  At least 63 professional journalists were killed doing their jobs in 2018, a 15 percent increase over last year, Reporters Without Borders said.

795-How the Western media support state terror – while millions die

796-Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted

797-NYT’s Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda

798-Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried By Reuters for Over a Month  It is up to all of us to not be passive consumers of news, and continually bear in mind that the news we are getting about official enemies may be less than half the story

799-With Trump Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela, Critics Warn News Outlets Failing US Viewers Once Again  "If the US had a major state TV network it would sound exactly like this. 100% pure, uncritical cheerleading."

800-Wikileaks

801-CJR's covering climate change event proposes better journalism for a better climate

802-KING: Hillary Clinton camp now paying online trolls to attack anyone who disparages her online 

803-Roughly half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found

804-A Ugandan Climate Activist Was Cropped Out Of A News Agency Photo Of Greta Thunberg At Davos  Vanessa Nakate told BuzzFeed News she was heartbroken to see websites use a photo featuring four white activists but not her.

805-Bots are pushing conspiracy theories about Australia's fires - Where are the Australian bushfire conspiracies coming from?

806-Coronavirus doubters follow climate denial playbook - Whether denying coronavirus or climate change, many deploy the same unfounded strategies and messages.

807-How to Win the New Climate War by Michael Mann

808-Major news networks devoted less than 4 hours to climate change in 2019. Total.

809-Media outlets need to stop greenwashing fossil fuel industries

810-The Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation - The disinformation industry has deployed these strategies across multiple issues.

811-How Disinformation Spreads, According to Chuck Todd - Chuck Todd has had a front-row seat for the spread of disinformation. Here’s how he sees it happening and the media’s role in it

812-NY Times Editor Says Biden Sexual-Assault Article Was Edited after His Campaign Complained

813-NYT Recycles Polling to Tell Dems Once More: Move to the Right

814-NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren Debate (YouTube)

815-Record Inequality and Corporate Profits Are What Media Call a ‘Strong Economy’

816-Sanders’ Plan to Fight Global Climate Disaster Too Ambitious, Says NYT  It’s as if the paper can’t resist slipping in gratuitous digs at Sanders any chance it gets, even as the world burns.

817-The New York Times Needle and the Damage Done - Have we learned nothing from political journalism’s failures of four years ago?

818-The Most Censored Stories of 2019! (YouTube)

819-U.S. drops to 45 in ranking of countries based on freedom of the press

820-Media dead silent as Wikileaks insider explodes the myths around Julian Assange

821-The Ideology Behind Michael Grunwald's Repugnant Assange Tweet  The Time correspondent wrote, "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange."

822-Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup

823-Chris Hedges: Mainstream Journalism is Dead (YouTube)

824-‘Unlike anything we’ve seen in modern history’: Attacks against journalists soar during Black Lives Matter protests

825-‘Freedom Is Blossoming’: After Dismembering a Journalist, Saudi Arabia Goes on a PR Spree

826-Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth

827-Covid Denial and Climate Denial: Same Tactics, often Same People (YouTube)

828-COVIDeniers: Anti-Science Coronavirus Denial Overlaps with Climate Denial

829-NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump

830-NY Times Under Fire for Terminating Editor Lauren Wolfe After Pro-Biden Tweets

831-How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2020

832-Sunday Shows Hit Snooze on Climate Alarm

833-NY Times Provides US Government Propaganda by Manufacturing Quote by Top Chinese Official

834-NYT’s China Syndrome

835-The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.

836-How Financial Interests Influence News Making Decisions (YouTube)

837-Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One

838-Bipartisan US Attacks on Journalism Amid revelations of Trump-era spying, Trevor Timm calls out the attempt by Biden’s DOJ to criminalize news gathering in the case against Julian Assange.  

839-ACTION ALERT: NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil 

840-The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations

841-The Media’s Climate Blindspot  When climate coverage ignores the global South, it’s bad for everyone.

842-Revealed: murdered journalist’s number selected by Mexican NSO client

843-As US Broils and Europe Floods, Media Dismiss EU Climate Plan as ‘Ambitious’

844-The NYT stopped shilling for cigarettes. Why won't it stop shilling for fossil fuels? As climate disasters devastate America, activists aren't the only ones wondering why the paper of record is still advertising fossil fuels.

845-Why Are ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Washington Post’ Producing Ads for Big Oil? It looks like real news, but “native advertising” is greenwashing for the climate-wrecking industry.

846-Graph showing how NEWS fails to cover climate change

847-The war in Afghanistan was far, far different from how it has been depicted in American media.

848-Why won’t TV news say ‘climate change’?

849-Analysis Shows Facebook Allows 99% of Climate Disinformation to Go Unchecked - The new study coincided with Facebook's new initiative to combat climate lies, which civil society groups criticized as "too little, too late."

850-Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media

851-Manchin’s Coal Conflict of Interest Not of Interest to Corporate News

852-NYT Runs Interference for Billionaires Who Don’t Want Their Wealth Taxed

853-Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation

854-Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal

855-Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation - Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.

856-The Legal War Against Mother Jones Keeps Getting More Intense - You can do a lot of damage to the independent press by tying it up in court.

857-The Science Of Propaganda Is Still Being Developed And Advanced

858-The Media’s Lies About Colin Powell’s Lies

859-Deathly Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him

860-PATRICK LAWRENCE: Instead of a Free Press - In the failed corporate coverage of Steven Donziger and Julian Assange there is an imposition of darkness, ignorance inflicted on Americans with intent. 

861-When All The Media Narratives Collapse - In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.

862-Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs - "These people can violate our standards without any consequences."

863-Yang, Andrew Forward - Notes on the Future of Our Democracy  Andrew Yang who ran for U.S. President in 2020 and is forming the Forward Party wrote an excellent book with a fresh take on U.S. problems and potential solutions. Especially interesting is what he wrote about the mass media in chapter 12 "How We Know What We Know" and chapter 18 "Constructive Institutionalism or The Priests of Decline."

864-American Commissars by Chris Hedges

865-NYT Responded to Subway Shooting With ‘Relentless String of Copaganda’

866-Report on how social media don't really try to fight climate misinformation

867-Nightly News Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis

868-Pseudo-Journalists Are Attacking Elon Musk with Lies, but the Harm Is Very Real

869-US Spy Operation That Manipulates Social Media Revealed (YouTube)

870-Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War by Chris Hedges

871-Yes, The New York Times Really IS Shilling for Big Oil

872-Staged Negative Film about Tesla & Elon Musk Linked to EQT that Owns Renewable Energy Company

873-Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class

874-Katie Halper Violated Media Taboo Against Israel Criticism

875-Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC

876-The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell - In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written

877-Can False Balance Kill You? It Sure Can

878-Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure

879-First Twitter Files of 2023 shows how intelligence community gained influence over the platform

880-The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism

881-Chris Hedges Report

882-20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame

883-US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential. It’s not just that media figures who sold the most devastating war crime of the 21st century never faced any professional consequences—they’re more powerful and influential now than ever.

884-For the Record, NPR Absolutely is US State Propaganda

885-NYT Blames US Public for Collapse of Pandemic Safety Net

886-NYT Lies About Snowden To Peddle 'Evil-Leaker' Propaganda, Then Stealth-Edits When Caught

887-US Media Denounce Twitter’s ‘State Media’ Label—When It Affects NPR

888-False NYT Spy Claim on Iran Nukes Needs Correction

889-What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over - The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities’ targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.

890-The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi - Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics.

891-Black Alliance for Peace  

892-If you don't want to get clickbaited, use this website for your EV news (YouTube)

893-NYT Says More Worker Suffering Needed to Bring Inflation Down

894-Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones

895-The Chris Hedges Report Podcast on how corporate power has neutered comedy with comedian Lee Camp

896-Raid on Kansas Paper Shows Perilous State of Free Press

897-For NYT, Cluster Munitions Are Completely Wrong—When Russians Use Them

898-As the World Burns, A Cowardly News Media Endangers US Democracy - News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad and fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.

899-NYT Runs Interference for IDF as It Bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp

900-Steve Schimdt breaks down how the New York Times failed democracy (YouTube)

901-Book Excerpt: Last Year, Americans Were Battered by News Abuse - How critical news stories were compromised by lies, misdirection, and propaganda in the service of elite interests.

902-FBI and White House likely coerced social media platforms into removing posts Appeals court rules

903-Elon Musk Exposes The Government In New Interview (YouTube)

904-In Even the Best Coverage There Is No Accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry

905-Rights Groups Demand Governments Protect Exiled Journalists, Dissidents

906-Elon Saved Free Speech

907-News Corp attacks EVs with coordinated campaign of lies and propaganda

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