On this episode of Start Making Sense, Tom Stevenson analyzes the war in Iran, and Tara McGowan explains the new media landscape for young and news-avoidant voters.
Newspapers for sale the day after US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, at a newsstand in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Tom Stevenson analyzes the latest news and long-term prospects of Trump's Iran war, for both Iran and the US. Tom is a contributing editor for the London Review of Books, where he writes about, among other things, politics in the Mideast.
Also: what news are people getting these days, and where are they getting it? Especially the people we call “news avoidant” & “low information” voters–the ones we want to vote for Democrats in November: what are the big stories for them? Tara McGowan explains– she’s founder and CEO of Courier Newsroom, a digital media company that operates a network of local news outlets.
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Tom Stevenson analyzes the latest news and long-term prospects for Trump’s Iran War, in both that country and the US. Tom is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books, where he writes about, among other things, politics in the Middle East.
Also: what news are people getting these days, and where are they getting it? Especially the people we call “news avoidant” & “low information” voters–the ones we want to vote for Democrats in November: what are the big stories for them? Tara McGowan explains–she’s founder and CEO of Courier Newsroom, a digital media company that operates a network of local news outlets.
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The primary force behind the settlement that will allow Trump’s allies at Paramount to take over Warners-Discovery and CNN was Gavin Newsom, who pressured California Attorney General Rob Bonta to end the anti-trust fight defending media independence. Norm Eisen explains – he’s co-founder and executive chair of the Democracy Defenders Fund and Democracy Defenders Action, and, the New York Times reported, “the leader of a coalition of entertainment and news industry professionals who opposed the deal.”
Also: After Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House newsroom, the TV networks united in refusing coverage of his events – including Fox News. John Nichols has our analysis.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.