The Media Is Bumming People Out. That’s Intentional
Legacy media’s new favorite beat is doomerism, driving outrage clicks on the defeatist idea that none of us can do anything to improve the state of the world.
Pressing Issues
The Raid on the ‘Marion County Record’ Is Only the Beginning
The Right's war on the fourth estate is nothing new. But when cops raided a rural Kansas newspaper office and its editors’ homes over an investigation in progress, a new horrifying precedent was set.
Manufactured Outrage Is Big Business
Republicans believe that stoking their constituents’ rage by inventing controversies wins at the voting booths. So why aren’t news outlets exposing these campaigns of terror for what they are?
The Media Is Determined to Repeat All Its Mistakes in Covering Trump
The crimes of the former president are still being covered by legacy news as if they were a circus act and not an international security crisis. And they seem determined to keep it that way.
That Time Euphemisms Got Too Woke For the Media
The GOP is defunding libraries, censoring history and science, and banning words and books, but media men are flipping out about the occasional awkwardness of inclusive language.
The Importance of Women-Owned and -Run Media
If journalism is the first draft of history, then it’s critical that women aren’t just the story, but also the storytellers.
This Is How Media Shapes the Narrative
When a paper of record makes unsubstantiated claims, other media outlets see them and spin them out in a subversive game of telephone. Is this how we really want the first draft of history to be written?
What Does It Mean to Reinvent Journalism?
There's a reason why every new news site looks, feels and reports the same way.
Elon Musk Is Really Good At Being Really Bad
As the owner of Twitter, Musk is proving to be a disastrous CEO. And his fragile ego and bizarre fascistic politics threaten to make matters even worse for the once-successful social-media platform.
There Aren’t Two Sides to Attempted Assassination
In the wake of David DePape's violent attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, legacy media is refusing to call it what it is: the second attempt to murder the second person in line for the presidency.