Journalists had a chance to join Assange in his struggle to rebuild journalism. Instead, they fled the battlefield, leaving him as a sacrificial offering to their corporate masters. (Common Dreams) Court hearings in Britain over ...
Mainstream outlets are largely ignoring the IDF’s near-daily attacks, which began in early August. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Israeli air and ground forces continued to attack Gaza Monday while continuing to tighten a devastating ...
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 ...
After both liberal and conservative media outlets ran away with conflicting studies on Trump rallies and hate crimes, is anyone telling the truth? Three Texas professors from the University of North Texas and Texas A&M-Commerce ...
“Every single meeting of Julian Assange seems to be ‘suspicious’ for CNN.” A former staff member at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange lived for almost seven years dropped a bombshell in late ...
Not until the rise of the internet would technology have as great an impact on news as the telegraph. This is the seventh part in a Citizen Truth series on media bias and the history ...
The advent of the “pennys” marked a transition towards a broader appeal and more objectivity in newspapers. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 The first five ...
“That a network insider has blown the whistle on how all this works, and how MSNBC and NBC have become Ground Zero for these political pathologies of militarism and servitude to security state agencies, while not surprising, is nonetheless ...
“Dozens of migrants attacked U.S. border enforcement by throwing rocks and bottles. Ultimately, American authorities had to use tear gas to stop the attacks,” Boris Epshteyn for the Sinclair Group. On Monday the Sinclair Group handed ...
The first four parts of this series have discussed the basics of media bias, as well as press in the colonial, revolutionary and constitutional eras of U.S. history. This segment concerns a period of history ...
So far, in the “Understanding and Unpacking Media Bias” series, we have discussed the basics of media bias as well as partisanship as it related to the press during the colonial and revolutionary periods of ...
It’s been a while since I published the first two articles in this series, so click here to review the first article, which provided a brief introduction to media bias and its related terms, or ...
As part of my ongoing series at Citizen Truth, titled “Bias In The Media. An Expose,” we are going to examine how the mainstream media has covered recent scandals involving Republicans and Democrats. Namely, we ...
Historical context is essential to a true understanding of bias and partisanship in U.S. news media. This article focuses on the advent and early development of newspapers in the colonial era, from about the mid ...
Americans spanning the political spectrum share battle cries about media bias, but what is it, and why does it exist? It’s not unusual today to hear complaints about mainstream media. “Fake news,” “media bias,” ...
Media watchdog group, FAIR, calls Vox’s North Korea video a display of hawkish fearmongering that leaves out the United States’ role in creating Korean Peninsula tensions. The media watchdog agency, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting ...
An analysis by FAIR found that a clear corporate media pro-war bias existed in articles that reported on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s speech at Stanford University last January. According to a report by Fairness ...
After the outbreak of protests in Iran three weeks ago, several major corporate media outlets ran stories on the protests using pictures claiming to be from the Iranian protests. Too bad they used the wrong ...