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In practice, media literacy is actually critical media literacy, indoctrinating students to adopt only leftist principles offered by leftist media outlets.

Twenty-four schools are among the city’s 106 early voting sites, posing a new challenge now that students are back in classrooms.

It’s been three days since Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned amid sexual harassment allegations but his problems are still piling up. A longtime New York state...

Un informe sugiere que el exmandatario usaría el dinero para vengarse de sus enemigos políticos y para pagar el salario de fieles colaboradores nombrados en...

By HELEN JOHNSON  The Miscellany News, Vassar College  May 20, 2021 This is the fifth article in a five-part series about the military-industrial-media complex. The fourth article,“The (im)proper meshing of the corporate media and the military-industrial complex,” can be found here. I have now examined the military-industrial complex (MIC) and the corporate media each individually; explained how the MIC has expanded to include not only the arms makers, Congress and the military, bu...

But it may still be weeks before New Yorkers know who won the Democratic primary.

Counting ballots in NYC mayors race will be faster thanks to software approval By Adam Brewster First major test for ranked-choice voting in NYC New Yorkers can expect to find out who won the citys upcoming Democratic mayoral primary more quickly than they would have if the New York State Board of Elections hadnt acted Tuesday to approve software for tabulating ranked-choice voting results. The decision means the city will now avoid a lengthy hand count of the ballots cast i...

arrow Scott Heins / Gothamist It may take until mid-July to know who has won all the New York City primary contests, but at least elections officials won’t need to hand count tens of thousands of ballots. The New York State Board of Elections finally issued its unanimous approval on Tuesday for the city to use software to tabulate the ranked-choice vote results. The approval comes after more than 18 months of back and forth between the city and state over the process required to te...

Independent journalism and news distribution play an indispensable role in informing citizens. They are a pillar of public life and pluralistic, democratic societies. At their best, they are a source of reliable, quality information that people trust and understand. As South Africa and the world commemorated World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, we have to pose and ask not so much about media freedom — rather, we should embrace the challenges faced by the publishing sector and democratic governme...

arrow A voter during the October 2020 early voting period Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock After four special elections in different parts of New York City, a small sample of voters have had their first taste of ranked choice voting. The system, adopted by voters in 2019, took effect at the start of this year and has its advocates and detractors. With nothing set to stop its broader implementation, a much wider pool of voters will use the new voting system in the upcoming citywide pr...