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5 Ways To Stay an Informed Voter in Today’s Media Environment

It doesn’t take long for political discussions on social media to turn negative.From vitriolic remarks, to hyperbolic statements, to name-calling, online political conversations tend to turn into a tit-for-tat verbal…

July 20, 2016
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Independent Journalism

Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth

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The close relationship between reporters and police is often marked by diffusion of language from the police PR team to the front page. In the wake of the deaths of

July 11, 2016
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Propaganda & Truth

USA Today Ducking the Question of Militarism

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The top story for USA Today on July 8, 2016: Some Western countries aren’t spending enough money on weapons of war. “NATO Nations Ducking the Check” was the headline across the…

July 8, 2016
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Rory O’Connor: “Getting the story is hard, but getting the resources to put that story out there in front of the public is even harder.”

‘What Is a Journalist if Not an Advocate on Behalf of the Public?’

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Janine Jackson interviewed Rory O’Connor for the July 1, 2016, episode of CounterSpin.

July 6, 2016
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Immigration

Vox’s CIA-Backed ‘Democracy’ Standard Is OK With Slavery and Women Not Voting

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Defining democracy is a notoriously difficult thing, but much is revealed by how media outlets choose to do so. One popular metric is called “Polity IV”—a methodology created by the

May 16, 2016
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Propaganda & Truth

“A glance out the window shows blue sky,” Gregg Easterbrook writes in the New York Times (5/12/16).

NYT’s Glass Is Half Full of Half-Truths

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“When Did Optimism Become Uncool?” wonders a New York Times Sunday Review piece (5/12/16) by Gregg Easterbrook. “The country is, on the whole, in the best shape it’s ever been in,” Easterbrook…

May 13, 2016
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5 Ways To Stay an Informed Voter in Today’s Media Environment

Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth

USA Today Ducking the Question of Militarism

‘What Is a Journalist if Not an Advocate on Behalf of the Public?’

Vox’s CIA-Backed ‘Democracy’ Standard Is OK With Slavery and Women Not Voting

NYT’s Glass Is Half Full of Half-Truths

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on A…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Man…

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying t…

The longest-running strike in the US is over—…

Environment

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate…

Kitchen Nightmare: How Plastic in Everyday Objects Leaches into Food…

Overdevelopment and Climate Change Collide in Catastrophic Flood

Justice

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the…

Extrajudicial killings from Barack Obama to Donald Trump

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a…

Media

CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls "60 Minutes" Exposé on…

The state of the free press in the US is……

Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government…

Democracy in Crisis: The Future of Journalism

Philosophy

Good vs. Evil: A Matter of Conscience

Grades and Test Scores Don’t Matter. A Love of Learning…

Great Quotations on the Mysteries of Time

The Illusionist

Politics

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use…

How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates…

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely…

Science

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

The Future Of Sharing Means You’ll Never Have To Buy…

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned…

What If We Could Literally Rewrite the Human Genome?