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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.
Benefit of the Doubt? The Shaky Ethics of Giving Prime Time to Trump’s Propaganda
Peter Laarman: There was no “ethical dilemma” here for the networks. As Princeton’s Eddie Glaude said on MSNBC, the ethical imperative here was to deny giving critical aid and support to a congenital liar and manipulator.
The Problem Is Not Civility
Steve Hochstadt: The problem is that a few prominent conservative opinion leaders, headed by our President, have gone way beyond incivility to hatred.
PBS Examines Facebook, Monday & Tuesday Nights: Time for a Hard Look
Larry Wines: If you’ve heard the questions posed in hearings when the heads of tech giants have testified, you know what boobs our lawmakers are when it comes to even a basic ability to comprehend the capability of the internet.
The Left Will Never Thrive Without Its Own Smart, Entertaining and Well-Funded Media Organization
Ted Rall: Not in the derpy leaderless consensus style that destroyed the Occupy movement, but top-down by brilliant Machiavellian can’t-be-bought leftist schemers who know how to motivate and build an organization.
An Unexpected Farewell: Local Columnists Disappearing
Steve Hochstadt: While national newspapers are weathering this storm, local newspapers are closing. Since 2004, about 1,800 local papers have closed or merged. The smaller the paper, the more likely it would close.
Where Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport
Democracy only works if there is ample participation. These local boards can ensure that these radio stations are run well. But if effective, logical people don’t join these local boards the stations may be poorly governed and decline. Democracy is not a spectator sport.
All the Anonymous B.S. That’s Fit to Print
Ted Rall: What is scary is that the stewards of a grand 167-year-old publishing institution can cavalierly abandon the basic standards of journalism in search of a social media splash in their tepid jihad against a sitting president.
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