"Pink Slime Journalism" and a history of media manipulation in America
From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Ford, the rich and powerful have long exploited the press to promote their interests.
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From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Ford, the rich and powerful have long exploited the press to promote their interests.
The only other political censure in the history of Congress—that of abolitionist Joshua Giddings in 1842—was bound up with the struggle against slavery that culminated in the Civil War.
'The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the horrible news.' Berthold Brecht An Existential Task Until the end of his presidency - and even after his open complicity in subverting the Un...
It was terrible political speech, but legislatures that gag themselves are not legislatures.
The Island has had its share of colorful names. There was Major Pain, the Chilmark lawyer who fought unsuccessfully to move our county seat out of Edgartown; Mayor Blood, who gave us the name “Cottage City”; and Captain Pound, the pirate who plagued Holmes Hole Harbor. There was Harry Legg, the Helenian carpenter; Dr. Lynch, […]