Access Journalism Is a Fool’s Errand
In an effort to keep them in good stead, reporters have coddled Republicans who claim that legacy media is biased against them. It's only served to push coverage further to the right.
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We Can’t Fight Monkeypox “Ourselves”
Legacy media has reintroduced shame-based conversations from the AIDS era centering on behavioral change to contain an epidemic without mentioning vaccines. Have we learned nothing?
This Is How Media Gatekeepers Enable Abusers
From CNN's Chris Cuomo to the Washington Post's Marty Baron, the U.S. newsroom has a long tradition of empowering perpetrators of sexual assault and harassment by amplifying their voices and silencing survivors and their allies.
The Media Doesn’t Care About Abortion Rights
And now, with the Supreme Court hearing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, that could mean the end of abortion access for most of the country.
Does Money Advice for Women Actually Help?
There’s an increase in finance-related content for young women because they need and want it. But is the advice helpful? Or simply condescending?
How the Media Is Gatekeeping Black Writers
Industry buzzwords like “diversity” and “inclusion” are meaningless unless and until newsrooms start hiring more Black and Brown editors and journalists to publish the stories that affect their lives.
How the Anti-Vaxx Movement Explains Trumpism
Donald Trump's fear-stoking and hysterical takedowns of established facts fuels a dangerous movement that has brought back diseases scientists long ago vanquished. Will defiant ignorance kill us?
The GOP’s Response to Khashoggi’s Murder Shows There Is No Bottom
There is no position too unspeakable, too egregious, too grotesque for this president and his party to take.
Unless You’re A White Guy, Facebook Thinks You’re Black
The algorithms used to determine how to target ads are based on biased data that assumes most social-media users are white men. That’s not only wrong—it’s racist.
Who’s to Blame for a Generation of Angry White Men?
The media is missing the point in its sympathetic coverage of white male killers, the biggest threat to women, people of color, Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ people … all of us.