The Media Deficit: MSM Ignores Debt Deal’s Effect on Real People The Media Deficit: MSM Ignores Debt Deal’s Effect on Real People
By letting the GOP set the terms of the debate (just like in Iraq!), Beltway media can overlook reality.
Aug 4, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories
Every week, Nation interns cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.
Aug 4, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
‘Fifty Years in the Global Village’: Remembering Marshall McLuhan on His 100th Birthday ‘Fifty Years in the Global Village’: Remembering Marshall McLuhan on His 100th Birthday
His writing anticipated our own media age of Facebook and Twitter.
Aug 4, 2011 / William F. Baker
Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn
Times columnist Frank Bruni ignores the dramatic toll the economic downturn has taken on women.
Aug 4, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin S. Donohoe
Meet Erick Erickson, the New-Media Rush Limbaugh Meet Erick Erickson, the New-Media Rush Limbaugh
Although unknown to many liberals, Red State’s Erick Erickson is an exemplar of the new right-wing media activists pushing the GOP to extremes.
Aug 2, 2011 / Ben Adler
Small Victories, Giant Possibilities and the Mainstream Media Small Victories, Giant Possibilities and the Mainstream Media
Finding hope, small victories and larger opportunities in a world no one should write off as lost.
Aug 1, 2011 / Rebecca Solnit
Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink? Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink?
Corporate media help manufacture the Tea Party’s power every bit as much as the tea party manufactured our current debt “crisis.”
Jul 29, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories
Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention. ...
Jul 28, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
Colbert Challenges the Poverty Deniers Colbert Challenges the Poverty Deniers
Stephen Colbert, with the help of Nation friend Peter Edelman, takes on right-wing poverty deniers with integrity and humor.
Jul 28, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Wired World of Sports The Wired World of Sports
The general public is a lot more knowledgable about matters of sports labor issues, and everything else, than it was a decade ago.
Jul 27, 2011 / Feature / Will Leitch