(Caitlin Johnstone) Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris was able to visit him with their children at Belmarsh prison for the first time since March of this year, and reports that his physical condition has deteriorated ...
A pillar of the antiwar movement, Diana Johnstone provides critical insights from her time working in Associated Press and AFP newsrooms in the US and Europe and much more. (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Diana ...
The FCC’s 1949 Fairness Doctrine required broadcast television and radio licensees to present controversial issues of public interest in a “fair, equitable, and balanced” manner, but critics have argued that it actually hinders open discourse ...
Hello world! As I sit at my desk gazing at what is fast-becoming an overgrown garden – my daughter thought earlier this April that she would beat her boredom by mowing the grass and instead ...
If approved, the proposal would require the tech giant to make more detailed disclosures and human rights commitments. Proposed resolution set forth by Sum of Us Two major Apple shareholder groups support a measure requiring ...
“One has to wonder how long China would have kept up their false narratives if not for whistle-blowing medical professionals and personal accounts of citizens on the ground in Wuhan.” Americans are often quick to ...
“For me, though, film is about emotion.” — Meet director Kevin Wilson Jr. of the 2018 Oscar-nominated My Nephew Emmett I caught up with film-maker Kevin Wilson Jr. to talk influences, film and making the ...
“I’m not sick. The world is sick & I’m the surgeon with the scalpel for false values.” - Meet comedian Lenny Bruce’s only daughter, Kitty. Lenny Bruce: comedian, scathingly sharp social satirist, oppressed by meddling moralists and ...
Government penetration and control over media of little interest to those who are subject to it. (By Joshua Cho, FAIR) Last month, CNBC (10/7/19) reassured us that fears of a potential recession are “overblown,” because the ...
The late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries marked both the rise and fall of objectivity in American news media. Even so, the golden age of objectivity, paradoxically characterized by both elitism and ethicism, was anything ...
When ‘fake news’ has been a part of U.S. journalism since the days of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, is there any hope for modern-day journalism? This is the eighth part in a Citizen ...
Our elites are engaged in normal economic activity or else looking out for the betterment of humanity, while theirs are nefariously dominating politics. (By Alan MacLeod, FAIR) Even in corporate media, you will occasionally see ...
“We have to be cognizant that multi-national corporations with interests in fossil fuels and pharmaceuticals own all of the major media.” – Jen Senko Jen Senko is a filmmaker who, with her most recent film, ...