Media critique

U.S. elites ignore, or even cheer and enable, severe rights abuses as long as the victims are Muslim, only to vehemently object when far more benign offenses happen to them or their friends.

How did ”multiple sources” all innocently feed the same false information to multiple media outlets? The refusal of CNN and MSNBC to say only compounds the damage they have caused.

Factually false assertions about Donna Brazile, the DNC, and WikiLeaks documents were widely spread this week by U.S. journalists.

Now we have the "Russia-hacked-the-voting-systems-of-21-states" to add to this trash heap of debunked official claims. Is this a healthy climate?

If aggressive war, torture, and illegal spying didn't result in Bush officials getting ostracized, then why should anything?

Any discussion of why Hillary Clinton lost, or what the Democrats must reform, is woefully incomplete if it excludes this issue.

“Portraying homeless people as inevitably or essentially disgusting serves to dehumanize those who are merely struggling to survive,” say scholars of homelessness.

There is no reason to believe someone obtained The Intercept’s NSA document prior to publication, and every reason to believe they did not.

Threatening an anonymous critic with exposure seems more like corporate bullying and censorship than journalism.

U.S. media outlets have repeatedly been caught publishing exaggerations and falsehoods about Moscow. That behavior is dangerous.