Media Torture
Defending torture -- and the torturers -- is now a long accepted practice in American journalism, one that brings you much acclaim and access to power, bylines, headlines, and lucrative contracts.
Defending torture -- and the torturers -- is now a long accepted practice in American journalism, one that brings you much acclaim and access to power, bylines, headlines, and lucrative contracts.
Tom Watson | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media
The Internet has been a destructive force for many business models, but none threatens the basis of the republic as much as the digital knife busily sawing at the fraying Achilles tendon of American newspapers.
Will Bunch | Posted 04.05.2009 | Media
Jon Stewart's epic, eight-minute takedown of CNBC's clueless, in-the-tank reporting of inflatable bubbles and blowhard CEOs shouldn't be viewed as a stick in the eye -- but a teachable moment.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Air America conducted a poll that asked a question raised by Time Magazine's Joe Klein: "Should Obama pardon George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
The Republicans today are conforming to an ideology based on a myth that other Republicans created in 1997, a copy of a copy without an original.
Ari Melber | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov -- while the press has fixated on the Blagojevich scandal, the allegations of torture by officials in the current administration receive scant attention.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media