Ted Rall: To be a Leftist in America today is analogous to how black people felt until recently while watching TV: you don’t see anyone like you.
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Long Form Long Form Long Form! Is the Future of Print Journalism
Ted Rall: The New Yorker and The Economist are prospering because they doubled down on their commitment to detailed long-form journalism about ongoing issues.
What’s Really Up with These Facebook Bans?
Tom Hall: Facebook’s expulsion of Alex Jones provides an opportunity for a wholly self-serving and essentially dishonest pretense that Facebook has some moral compass.
So You Want to Start a Progressive Podcast—Here Are 10 Tips to Create a Successful Show
Thom Hartman: Your podcast must be relentlessly entertaining. It must conform to the rules of broadcasting, from voice modulation to clean transitions to resets of topic if a single podcast covers more than one. Keep things popping.
Why at Least One Progressive Likes David Brooks
Walter G. Moss: Various liberal and progressive publications have found fault with some of the details of Brooks’ reparations article, but come on! He’s a conservative and yet willing to recognize that reparations to African Americans might be a good idea.
For Journalists, Self-Censorship Is Credibility Suicide
Ted Rall: You know journalists have lost their way when they cheer the arrest and potential extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange.
To Ola Bini, a Political Prisoner Caught Up in the Assange Debacle
Vijay Prashad: Is the Ecuadorian government acting for the U.S. government, asking you to say things about Assange, things that you would obviously not know?
An Election Challenge: Time for Change at NewsGuild?
Steve Early: It’s likely that many Guild loyalists—if they are eligible to vote—will be casting their ballots based on how they think the union is faring against powerful employers in a rapidly changing industry.
Tucker Carlson: Misogyny on Parade
Berry Craig: Beyond “bloviating bigot,” I was at a loss for the best words to further describe Carlson’s serial sexist and misogynist retching.
Why Taxpayers Should Pay for Local News
Joe Mathews: When people know they themselves are paying for the local media, they are more likely to read it, and complain if it’s not really serving them. This local funding, and the accountability it brings, should make the local news livelier and more grounded in community, and more interesting.
The Continuing Censorship (Criminal) Enterprise of the Left?
Paul Haeder: Self-censoring, check mating, and constant paranoia that the man will gut me for thinking and saying and writing these screeds, that is the way of the Capitalist world.
Newspaper Junkie
Murray Polner: I’m also bothered because at times the Times seems to fall for insider leaks from the huge and very secret “Intelligence Community” in our post 9/11 national security state.
Pacifica Issues Taken to Attorney General Becerra
Michael Novick: Since KPFK went to a “strip-programming” model about a decade ago, with gate-keepers controlling access to the airwaves and limiting free speech and community engagement, its audience has been cut in half.
