Media

To Help Connect the Two New Yorks, Bill de Blasio Should Build More Community Broadband

To Help Connect the Two New Yorks, Bill de Blasio Should Build More Community Broadband To Help Connect the Two New Yorks, Bill de Blasio Should Build More Community Broadband

How high-speed Internet access is changing one Brooklyn neighborhood.

Jan 8, 2014 / Maya Wiley

Media Fail: Unemployment Coverage

Media Fail: Unemployment Coverage Media Fail: Unemployment Coverage

Eric with the latest reviews and Reed on the gaping holes in the mainstream media's coverage of unemployment benefits. 

Jan 7, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

‘60 Minutes’ Does It Again

‘60 Minutes’ Does It Again ‘60 Minutes’ Does It Again

The program’s attack on government investments in green technology ignores basic facts.  

Jan 6, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter

This Is David Brooks on Drugs

This Is David Brooks on Drugs This Is David Brooks on Drugs

David Brooks’s blinkered pot column shows how our elites are shielded from the consequences of the war on drugs. 

Jan 3, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Goldberg

The Benghazi ‘Al Qaeda’ Myth

The Benghazi ‘Al Qaeda’ Myth The Benghazi ‘Al Qaeda’ Myth

The New York Times demolishes conspiracy theories with plain, old-fashioned good reporting.

Jan 2, 2014 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

Duck Dynasty and the Fake Outrage Machine

Duck Dynasty and the Fake Outrage Machine Duck Dynasty and the Fake Outrage Machine

Let us not dignify this incident by calling it a culture war.

Dec 26, 2013 / Blog / Richard Kim

The Year in Sex (or Pop Goes the Weasel)

The Year in Sex (or Pop Goes the Weasel) The Year in Sex (or Pop Goes the Weasel)

When Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, R. Kelly and capitalism killed sexual liberation.

Dec 26, 2013 / JoAnn Wypijewski

Sympathy for Justine Sacco Sympathy for Justine Sacco

Justine Sacco’s tweet was outrageous. So was the online mob campaign that turned her into the most vilified woman in the world.

Dec 23, 2013 / Blog / Michelle Goldberg

Why Is ‘The New Republic’ Taking Money From an NSA Contractor to Run Defenses of the NSA?

Why Is ‘The New Republic’ Taking Money From an NSA Contractor to Run Defenses of the NSA? Why Is ‘The New Republic’ Taking Money From an NSA Contractor to Run Defenses of the NSA?

Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution loves the National Security Agency and takes money from Northrop Grumman to blog about it in The New Republic.

Dec 20, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

How did something as trivial as spam end up on the forefront of cyberwar?

Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Saler

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