Media

How Do You Identify Fake News?

At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever since, and…

April 4, 2018
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Same Old Media Parade: Why Are Liberals Cheering?

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Just as they did in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, MSNBC and CNN now serve up a steady parade of war-hawks, spies and liars, presenting them as credible and…

March 26, 2018
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How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing

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You shouldn't have to do this. You shouldn't have to wade through complicated privacy settings in order to ensure that the companies with which you've entrusted your personal information are…

March 20, 2018
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Copspeak: When Black Children Suddenly Become ‘Juveniles’

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As FAIR has noted many times before (7/10/16, 1/30/18), one of the primary goals of “Copspeak”—broadly defined as the media internalizing police verbiage to sound Cool and Official—is to dehumanize those…

March 20, 2018
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"War, Journalism and Whistleblowers": Thomas Drake, Katharine Gun, Matthew Hoh, Jesselyn Radack

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This press conference took place in London on the day before the 15th anniversary of the Observer's publication of the March 2, 2003 story "US dirty tricks to win vote…

March 11, 2018
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West Virginia Strike Highlights Corporate Media’s Atrophied Labor Coverage

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MSNBC coverage of the West Virginia school workers strike: One of the last to the story, the cable channel had less coverage than any other major network except Fox News

March 10, 2018
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