By Herbert Vytiska | EurActiv.de | Translated By Samuel Morgan | EurActiv | – – Curbs on press freedom have been dramatically increased since the failed coup attempt against President Erdoğan. The Association of European Journalists (AEJ) has called on the European institutions to exert more pressure on Turkey, in face of further restrictions on […]
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journalism
Journalist Amy Goodman to Surrender and Fight Dakota Charges
By TeleSur | – – Update: North Dakota prosecutor changes charge against Amy Goodman to ‘rioting.’ The Democracy Now! host said the charge is a “direct attack” on freedom of the press. Journalist Amy Goodman says she will turn herself in next week to authorities to fight the charge of trespassing after filming a vicious […]
Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is one of those stupid guys who thinks he’s smart. The media still lets him steamroll them with nonsense. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. “The only explanation for the lopsided […]
“This Parrot is no More”: The 2016 Presidential Election did not Take Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote a book in 1991 entitled The Gulf War did not Take Place . In the same way, the 2016 presidential election did not take place. Baudrillard did not mean to say, of course, that no war was prosecuted by the US […]
Turkey Is Shutting Down over 130 Media Outlets; Can Democracy Survive?
TeleSur | – – Erdogan’s political purge following the failed coup keeps on going, with the net ever widening. Turkey is shutting down over 100 media outlets and is purging over 1,000 military personnel, it was announced Wednesday as President Tayyip Erdogan’s government continues to tighten its grip on power after a failed military coup […]
How Roger Ailes at Fox killed Journalism and gave us George W. Bush
By Russell Frank | (The Conversation) | – – Roger Ailes’ 20-year reign as the chairman of Fox News ended this week, the result of a sexual harassment scandal. He will be remembered by journalism ethicists as the poster boy for conflict of interest. But of Ailes’ many departures from journalistic norms of impartiality, the […]
Does billionaire-funded lawsuit against Gawker create playbook for punishing press?
By Clay Calvert | (The Conversation) | – – Word last week that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled wrestler Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker added a wrinkle to a case already featuring colorful characters and a US$140 million jury verdict. At a sensational and personal level, the story highlights the animus between PayPal […]
Media as a Shark’s Pilot Fish (Political Cartoon)
By Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol’s World
I Blame the US Media for Donald Trump
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez | ( TeleSur | – – The entire premise of an industry, like the U.S. media, is based on exploitation and political corruption at the cost of Black and brown folks. The media does not care about Black and brown folks because of capitalism and racism. Trump does not care […]
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