You can track the arc of modern American journalism from its apex at the Pentagon Papers and Watergate curving downward to Iran-Contra before the nadir of Bush’s war in Iraq.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. May 20, 2012.
Why do respected universities help perpetuate the myth that Ailes runs a news organization and that he occupies as an esteemed position within the journalism industry?
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. April 12, 2012.
The GOP candidates, flattered nonstop for years on Fox, suddenly found themselves competing for the channel's attention and fighting for kingmaker Roger Ailes' affection.
Mike Daisey argued that he had to stretch the facts in order to get at a "greater truth." These 10 works prove you can tell great stories without giving up on accuracy.
For all the daily hand wringing about celebrity overdoses and DUIs, there is little real reporting on the science of addiction, or how to make progress fighting it.
Bill Moyers, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Moyers & Company. February 22, 2012.
Bill Moyers talks with media critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson about money in politics, the media's missteps and the way the GOP's jeers shape debate results.
Maria Armoudian's book offers an unflinching look at media's capacity to shape the world, for better or for worse, breaking down how society and the media perpetuate evil.
A family supporting their "princess boy" and a love song for women of color are just some of the ways that Colorlines, a daily news site, seeks to articulate love.
Fox News has long blurred the line between corporate interests and journalistic integrity. But the phone hacking scandal is a step too far--it's time for Murdoch to go.
Anyone lamenting the end of traditional media would do well to attend the AMC conference and experience the excitement of a metaphorical phoenix rising from the ash.
The loss of print journalism is impoverishing our civil discourse and leaving us less and less connected to the city, the nation and the world around us.
We need to stand up for NYT reporter James Risen and against the sleazy, Bush-like tactics of the Obamacrats and the burgeoning national security state.
To understand these men and women and the tasks they are set to, we need journalists who do real reporting, not just pass on their own wet dreams to a gullible public.
The latest Koch brother affront is an "unheard of" breach of academic freedom--a donation to FSU only on the condition they can oversee the faculty appointees.
We have people posturing as journalists on TV who get paid as business spokespeople, financial reporters who retire to work for Goldman Sachs -- media parasites.
The winner of the second annual Izzy Award, named after muckraking journalist I.F. Stone, discusses independent media and this critical moment in journalism.