Tag: American Media

US Media Downplays and Ignores ICJ Ruling Declaring Israeli Occupation Illegal

CBS News was the worst. The network, which once employed genuine journalists like Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, has so far not aired a single report on the court’s decision.

US Media Downplays and Ignores ICJ Ruling Declaring Israeli Occupation Illegal

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.

Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

Source: US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.

The Israeli Right Wing’s Genocidal Dream of the “River to the Sea”

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been openly championing an Israel “from the river to the sea.”

And while ceasefire rallies composed of Palestinians and other supporters, including Jews, have aspirationally chanted “from the river to the sea,” Netanyahu, his cabinet, and religious zealots have been actualizing just such a reality through actions taken and statements made on behalf of the Jewish state. It is an insidious, catastrophic irony, generally ignored by the US press.

Source: The Israeli Right Wing’s Genocidal Dream of the “River to the Sea”

Matt Taibbi: America, the Single-Opinion Cult – scheerpost.com

Narrowing permitted ideas on both left and right, one unsuitable voice at a time.
 
People like AOC can couch these moves in terms of prevention of violence all they want, but it’s just too conspicuous that what’s left of major commercial media also happens to be much engaged in the trumpeting of government messaging, to the point where the people reading the news are government officials. It was once considered healthy for the press to play to mass audiences and position itself as a skeptical thorn in the side of officialdom.
There is no institution like that left in American life. What we have instead is an increasingly pissed-off population that needs to look about eighty results down in every Google search to find its point of view represented. Who thinks that situation is going to hold?

Matt Taibbi: America, the Single-Opinion Cult – scheerpost.com

Sanders Proposes ‘New Deal for Journalism’ to Ensure Media Serves Public Interest

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Calling for Australia’s ABC

Nonpartisan, publicly funded media is “an idea that we should explore,” said the senator.

Source: Sanders Proposes ‘New Deal for Journalism’ to Ensure Media Serves Public Interest