Media

Report: Media Favored Horserace Over Issues in Presidential Primary Report: Media Favored Horserace Over Issues in Presidential Primary

How did the media cover the 2012 primary campaign?

Apr 23, 2012 / Ari Melber

Machine-Made News Machine-Made News

The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

Apr 23, 2012 / Lewis Lapham

Sunday Talk Shows Still Skew Right and White, but There’s Light at the End of the Week

Sunday Talk Shows Still Skew Right and White, but There’s Light at the End of the Week Sunday Talk Shows Still Skew Right and White, but There’s Light at the End of the Week

Up with Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris-Perry are diverse in terms of gender, race and parts of the brain utilized.

Apr 20, 2012 / Leslie Savan

Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare

Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare

Neither Republicans nor Democrats treat parenting as work, and thousands of poor women are living in poverty today as living proof of that fact.

Apr 16, 2012 / Laura Flanders

The Real Hilary Rosen Scandal

The Real Hilary Rosen Scandal The Real Hilary Rosen Scandal

Her firm, SKD Knickerbocker, sells its perceived access to the White House, while lobbying for corporate tax breaks and for-profit colleges.

Apr 13, 2012 / Lee Fang

‘National Review’ Drops Another Racist Writer ‘National Review’ Drops Another Racist Writer

The conservative magazine let go of another contributor for offensive racial remarks. There is a reason this keeps happening. 

Apr 12, 2012 / Ben Adler

A Brave and Independent Russian Editor A Brave and Independent Russian Editor

In testing Russia’s press freedoms, Caucasian Knot mixes rigorous investigative journalism, videos and live-tweeting from hunger strikes.

Apr 9, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Has Trayvon Martin’s Case Received Too Much Coverage? Has Trayvon Martin’s Case Received Too Much Coverage?

What does Trayvon Martin's case reveal about the way we discuss race in this country?

Apr 5, 2012 / The Brian Lehrer Show

Moscow’s ‘Optimistic Channel’ Moscow’s ‘Optimistic Channel’

Just down the road from the Kremlin is a television station with opposition spirit. 

Apr 3, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Promised Lands Promised Lands

 Eric Alterman on Bruce and Reed on free speech in the media.

Mar 30, 2012 / Eric Alterman

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