Category: Media

Good News, Bad News about News
by Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins | Apr 2, 2014 | Culture, MediaThere’s some good news about the news business for a change. The big head wound traditional media venues like newspapers and TV suffered with the advent of Internet ads is starting to heal. The bleeding has either stopped or slowed to a less-painful trickle for most divisions of the Fourth Estate, according to the […]

Progressive Budget’s Media Blackout
by Peter Hart | Mar 18, 2014 | MediaWhat if lawmakers put forward a federal budget plan to tax big financial institutions, enact a healthcare public option and increase spending to put millions of Americans to work on badly needed infrastructure projects? They did. You just didn’t read or hear much about it. If Paul Ryan had proposed it, you would have […]

More to News Than Newspapers
by Marc Cooper | Feb 1, 2014 | Books, MediaTo paraphrase Desi Arnaz, American journalists “have a lot of esplainin’ to do.” How is it that in this media-marinated era, where more information is more available to more people than ever before in history, so many can be so massively misinformed? How is it that so many can ignore the cold science of […]

Spying: The Great American Tradition
by Geoff Rips | Jan 31, 2014 | MediaYou’ve got to figure that a form of government that has lasted for more than two centuries has accrued and created some mechanisms to protect its longevity, which may not be entirely a function of ideological strength and the faith of its citizenry.
When the Business Press Made Fraud Seem Normal
by Jim Sleeper | Jan 16, 2014 | Economy, MediaIn 1920 the New Republic ran “A Test of the News,” a special supplement to the magazine (published soon after as the book Liberty and the News) by Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz showing that in the three and a half years since the Bolshevik revolution, the New York Times had reported “not what was, […]
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Artists Rally for Equality and Inclusion in Tennessee
March 20 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN
Presented by Live Nation
Featuring Allison Russell, Amanda Shires, Brittany Howard, Brothers Osborne, Hayley Williams, Hozier, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jason Isbell, Joy Oladokun, Julien Baker, Maren Morris, Mya Byrne, Sheryl Crow, The Rainbow Coalition Band, Yola and more TBA
A Benefit Concert for Tennessee Equality Project, Inclusion Tennessee, OUTMemphis and The Tennessee Pride Chamber in Partnership With Looking Out Foundation
Podcast
Listen to “Paranoia on Parade”, a 3-part audio podcast with commentary from author Dave Troy, Jack Bryan, director of the 2018 film “Active Measures," and Hamilton Fish, Editor of The Washington Spectator.
Editor’s Picks
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What It Means When DeSantis Plays God
By Dick Batchelor
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Republicans Mishandle First Oversight Hearing
By Louis Clark
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By Lisa Graves
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Trump’s Criminal Intent — Day Nine
By Jonathan Alter
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The Right Normalizes Anti-Semitism
By Charlie Sykes