By avram anderson and Shealeigh Voitl The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership series began in 1981 following the 1980 presidential election, marking the beginning of the Reagan era. The 20-volume publication, totaling 3,000 pages, presented a series of policy proposals that the conservative think-tank believed would “revitalize our economy, strengthen…
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By Kevin Gosztola In March 2023, when my book on the case against Julian Assange was published, the detained WikiLeaks founder was waiting to find out if an appeals court in London would allow him to appeal extradition to the United States. Now, Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against…
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By: Steve Macek In January 2024, top executives at X (formerly Twitter), Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Snap, Discord, and TikTok appeared at a Senate hearing to answer questions about protecting children and teens online. In attendance were parents whose children had been harmed by or died as…
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By Shealeigh Voitl When Condé Nast bought the online music publication Pitchfork in 2015, Condé’s Chief Digital Officer Fred Santarpia told the New York Times that the acquisition brought “a very passionate audience of Millennial males into our roster.” Three years before, in 2012, roughly 88 percent of respondents to…
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By Sue Wilson (Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics) THE AIR BELONGS TO US – But they’re trying to take it away Media. Everybody is screaming about the media. Who we love, who we hate, who owns it, who uses it fairly, who outright lies…
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By Mischa Geracoulis Project Censored’s directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, have repeatedly asked what would happen if journalism disappeared. With 2023 in the rearview and 2024 presidential elections on the horizon, a look back at the state of local news across the United States gives additional pause to…
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By Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek The power of news is often described using visual metaphors. Good journalism is said to be illuminating, meaning it provides clarity and insight; exemplary reporting is praised for “shining light” on a subject or “bringing to light” crucial facts and original perspectives. And the…
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By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News,…
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By Steve Macek During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality. In Texas, Suzette Baker was fired from her job as director…
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By Mischa Geracoulis In How to Interpret the Constitution (2023), Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein argues that any theory of constitutional interpretation used by Supreme Court justices must be defensible in terms of beneficial outcomes, to make democracy “better.” Better is subjective, though. Considering the current Supreme Court, “better” begs…
