Media Analysis

Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias

Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias

And thankfully, bad press matters less and less.

Aug 20, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie

Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie

How far-right operatives manufactured the “crisis” of free speech with books, think tanks—and billions of dollars.

Aug 20, 2019 / P.E. Moskowitz

Mike Pompeo Iran

How the US Media Demonizes Iran How the US Media Demonizes Iran

Lesson 1: When the missile is American, use the passive voice.

Aug 19, 2019 / Between Us, We Cover the World / Serge Halimi and Pierre Rimbert

The New York Times building

I Don’t Want ‘The New York Times’ to Join the Resistance. I Want It to Tell the Truth. I Don’t Want ‘The New York Times’ to Join the Resistance. I Want It to Tell the Truth.

I’m not trying to drive a boycott. I’m trying to get the paper of record to listen.

Aug 16, 2019 / Joan Walsh

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Is As Frustrated as Ever With Corporate Media Bernie Sanders Is As Frustrated as Ever With Corporate Media

The senator explains to The Nation why he is raising concerns not just about the presidential debates but about the media’s narrow coverage of national crises.

Aug 16, 2019 / John Nichols

Paul Ryan

Does Paul Ryan Think White Supremacist Hate Is a ‘Hoax’? Does Paul Ryan Think White Supremacist Hate Is a ‘Hoax’?

The former speaker of the House is on the Fox Corporation board—does he share the view, as stated on Fox News, that white supremacy is “actually not a real problem in America”?

Aug 9, 2019 / John Nichols

Gillibrand, Harris, Castro, and Booker after the second Democratic debate in Detroit

The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful

Progressive Democrats can and should demand deeper and sharper lines of questioning and more diverse moderators.

Aug 8, 2019 / Editorial / John Nichols

No Gods, No Masters, No ‘New York Times’

No Gods, No Masters, No ‘New York Times’ No Gods, No Masters, No ‘New York Times’

Progressives should still subscribe to the newspaper of record. Just don’t expect it to save us from Trump.

Aug 7, 2019 / Jeet Heer

Donald Trump

It Doesn’t Matter Whether Trump Is Trying to Distract You It Doesn’t Matter Whether Trump Is Trying to Distract You

We can’t ignore a president who spews Ku Klux Klan–level rhetoric, but neither can we allow him to colonize our collective imagination.

Jul 29, 2019 / Column / Eric Alterman

Ukrainian flag

Peace in Ukraine? Peace in Ukraine?

The friends and foes of a Kiev-Moscow settlement.

Jul 24, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

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