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Long a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the American media is now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among journalists that freedom of the press was one of the glories of our system. It helped to make the government accountable and to air diverse points of view — even unpopular ones — to be tested in the marketplace of ideas. Media organizations were at the forefront of the fight to vindicate First Amendment rights, with The New York Times inv...

The fight against election misinformation has a new target: your cable company.

Advertisement: Its a narrative that started early, with Max Boot of the Washington Post opining shortly after the election that hes "never been more grateful for President Trumps incompetence," because he "cant even organize a coup détat properly." It culminated in Adam Serwer of the Atlantic arguing that Trumps "assault was most often futile, almost always buffoonish." To be clear, no one is saying that Trumps efforts were inconsequential, just because he failed to steal the election. Even ...

And the Senate sets a Feb. 9 date for Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

Fox News, OANN and Newsmax need to be held to account for spreading The Big Lie about the 2020 election, and for the networks ongoing role in spreading outright lies as truth. For America to heal, there must be oversight of media that violate minimal standards of impartiality and accuracy. Fox News, Newsmax and OANN need to be held to account for spreading The Big Lie about the 2020 election and for their ongoing role in spreading outright lies as truth. For America to heal, there must be medi...

Fox News Foes Face Uphill Fight to Get Cable Network Dropped Bloomberg 1/22/2021 (Bloomberg) -- The fight against election misinformation has a new target: your cable company. Popular Searches Critics of networks like Fox News and Newsmax argue that the outlets fueled uncertainty about election results and should be dropped by cable providers, just as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have begun to more aggressively police their content. After this month’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, they say, t...

Every time former CIA Director John Brennan appears on cable news to warn America about some new “insidious threat to democracy,” I am reminded again that he deserves to be in federal prison. In this corrupt media environment, however, the official who oversaw an illegal domestic-spying operation on the legislative branch of the United States government, who tried to cover it up and blame innocent Senate staffers when discovered, and who then brazenly lied about it to legislators and ...

Glenn Greenwald tells RT his Biden administration predictions

Left-wing journalists feel threatened by their loss of control of the “narrative” and by free speech they don't agree with.

These two will be fun to watch flailing in the coming years.