Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations : NPR
"[S]ummoning antitrust authority, on top of the retaliatory actions the White House has already taken to bar certain outlets, is another and even more brazen attempt to try to intimidate journalists," said Bruce Brown, the president of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press…
Monday, August 31, 2026
Prosecutorial Indiscretion (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)
The Legal Accountability Center filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers.
A federal judge has re-blocked the Trump administration’s executive order curtailing mail in voting after the Supreme Court lifted her previous block last week.
Three journalists dismissed from Stars and Stripes are suing the Pentagon accusing the government of violating their First Amendment rights and asking the courts to stop their termination.
Two election monitors from the Justice Department tried to interview voters and examine voting machines at polling places during Wyoming’s primaries last week, drawing pushback from the state’s Republican governor.
Plus listener questions.
Interview:
A federal judge has re-blocked the Trump administration’s executive order curtailing mail in voting after the Supreme Court lifted her previous block last week.
Three journalists dismissed from Stars and Stripes are suing the Pentagon accusing the government of violating their First Amendment rights and asking the courts to stop their termination.
Two election monitors from the Justice Department tried to interview voters and examine voting machines at polling places during Wyoming’s primaries last week, drawing pushback from the state’s Republican governor.
Plus listener questions.
Interview:
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Climate Conspirituality (Conspirituality podcast #319)
Climate reality keeps colliding with denial, erasure, and rebranding — across media, politics, and religion. Temu conspiritualists weave melted stories about the origins of wildfires, while the high-class guys run meditation-and-regenerative-farming spectacle backed by Exxon money. Julian’s on that angle.
Derek will be telling us about how climate journalism is collapsing faster than the climate itself with mass environment reporting layoffs at NPR, CBS, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Trump gutted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. EPA webpages have been scrubbed of human-caused warming language.
Are religious institutions doing any better? In 2015, five world religions — Jewish, Catholic, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist — independently issued climate statements ahead of the Paris COP21 talks. Matthew looks at how they struggled to challenge the global economies they depend on.
Interview:
Derek will be telling us about how climate journalism is collapsing faster than the climate itself with mass environment reporting layoffs at NPR, CBS, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Trump gutted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. EPA webpages have been scrubbed of human-caused warming language.
Are religious institutions doing any better? In 2015, five world religions — Jewish, Catholic, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist — independently issued climate statements ahead of the Paris COP21 talks. Matthew looks at how they struggled to challenge the global economies they depend on.
Interview:
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
“Can We Make the Protesters Look More Violent?” – Mother Jones
Pelley told Garcia-Navarro that, hours before an episode of 60 Minuteson the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti was set to air, Weiss sent an email to his boss asking for changes to the episode. “Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.”…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/can-we-make-the-protesters-look-more-violent/
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran US media agency, voiding mass layoffs
"The judge's ruling that Kari Lake's actions shall have no force or effect is a powerful step toward undoing the damage she has inflicted on this American institution that we love," they said in a statement. "Even as we work through what this ruling means for colleagues harmed by her actions, it brings renewed hope and momentum to the next phase of our fight: restoring VOA's global operations and ensuring we continue to produce journalism, not propaganda."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/kari-lake-us-media-agency-voice-of-america
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push
Mary and Sherman, though, say it's clear that CBS's methodology for who they chose to lay off reflects the Trump administration's assault on diversity. "I'm not accusing any one person of looking at my department and deciding to lay off all the people of color," Sherman said, "but I am saying that it's not a coincidence that the layoffs that they chose to do fell along racial lines."…
Monday, December 8, 2025
RFK Jr’s Great Crusade (Conspirituality podcast, #286)
RFK Jr is one of the greatest perpetrators of a firehose of falsehoods that we’ve ever covered. The stakes were raised when he was installed as head of America’s public health system. A new longform article in The Atlantic offers an inside look at the history and current thinking of this man, as insightful for what it offers as telling for what it omits. We discuss the role of journalism in an age defined by propaganda.
Interview:
See the Show Notes here for links to articles on these related topics:
- Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns
- Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
- CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.
- The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
- RFK Jr. and the Inexplicable Appeal of Repulsive Men
- RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
- Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
- Nature: Pertussis, A Tale of Two Vaccines
Monday, November 24, 2025
Monday, November 3, 2025
Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards
40 Acres and a Mule remains the nation's most famous attempt to provide some form of reparations for American slavery. Today, it is largely remembered as a broken promise and an abandoned step toward multiracial democracy. Less known is that the federal government actually did issue hundreds, perhaps thousands, of titles to specific plots of land between 4 and 40 acres. Freedmen and women built homes, established local governments, and farmed the land. But their utopia didn't last long. After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, his successor, Andrew Johnson, stripped property from formerly enslaved Black residents across the South and returned it to their past enslavers...
Sunday, August 3, 2025
A Decade of Reveal (Reveal podcast)
Reveal celebrates its 10-year anniversary with standout stories from the archives and interviews with the journalists behind the investigations.
The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received—surprisingly quickly—a decade’s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government.
“Sometimes, you have to sue to get the records,” he said. “I have to think that there were some people over there in DC who were as concerned as we were about this.”
After that first show was made, host Al Letson didn’t know what to expect. “We weren’t sure if any public radio stations would even air it,” he said.
Reveal’s VA investigation sparked outrage. Congress held hearings during a government lockdown, and there’s been a sea change in the way veterans are prescribed painkillers. And today, the show is on more than 500 stations.
This week on Reveal, we celebrate our 10-year anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite stories, from investigations into water shortages in drought-prone California to labor abuses in the Dominican Republic. And we interview the journalists behind the reporting to explain what happened after the stories aired.
Interview:
The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received—surprisingly quickly—a decade’s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government.
“Sometimes, you have to sue to get the records,” he said. “I have to think that there were some people over there in DC who were as concerned as we were about this.”
After that first show was made, host Al Letson didn’t know what to expect. “We weren’t sure if any public radio stations would even air it,” he said.
Reveal’s VA investigation sparked outrage. Congress held hearings during a government lockdown, and there’s been a sea change in the way veterans are prescribed painkillers. And today, the show is on more than 500 stations.
This week on Reveal, we celebrate our 10-year anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite stories, from investigations into water shortages in drought-prone California to labor abuses in the Dominican Republic. And we interview the journalists behind the reporting to explain what happened after the stories aired.
Interview:
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Trump’s Lawsuits Are Ruining Media (feat. David Sirota) (Find Out podcast)
Stephen Colbert gets canceled. CBS cuts a deal with Trump. The media caves—and democracy takes the hit. David Sirota joins the crew to discuss it all.
In this episode:
In this episode:
- David Sirota exposes the link between Trump’s lawsuits and corporate media cowardice
- We dive into the SLAPP suit epidemic silencing journalists
- The crew debates how Democrats can fight fire with fire
Watch for:
⏱️ 00:00 – Why Colbert was really fired
⏱️ 08:00 – Trump’s strategy: sue, settle, silence
⏱️ 17:00 – When libel law becomes a weapon
⏱️ 25:00 – Predicting Trump’s next attack on the judiciary
⏱️ 36:00 – The danger of safe seats and gerontocracy
⏱️ 46:00 – Can 2028 break the Democratic Party open?
Interview:
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Original Sin with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (John Donvan; Open to Debate/Think Twice)
The June 2024 presidential debate was a turning point in crucial ways for President Biden and the beginning of inquiry and reflection about his candidacy. In this episode, Open to Debate’s moderator-in-chief John Donvan and chief content officer Lia Matthow sit down with the co-moderator of that historic debate, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson to discuss their book “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
As a debate organization, we wanted to know more about what transpired before, during, and after that night and what lessons can be learned for journalists, Democratic and Republican party leaders, and, of course, what can be gleaned about the importance of presidential debates in determining elections.
Interview:
Friday, April 25, 2025
Trump’s “Pincer Attack” on Journalism Is Working. But There’s Hope. (Reveal podcast)
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on the challenges journalists face in covering the White House and his own employer being in Trump’s crosshairs.
David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works, which is once again being threatened by conservatives in Washington.
The second Trump administration has aggressively gone after the media in its first few months. It’s kicked news organizations out of the Pentagon. It’s barred other newsrooms from access to the White House. And Trump supporters in Congress have targeted federal funding for public media.
In late March, the heads of NPR and PBS testified on Capitol Hill to defend public broadcasting from Republicans accusing them of political bias. Meanwhile, some major news organizations seem to be capitulating and bending to the will of the Trump administration.
Folkenflik, who’s been covering media for two decades for NPR, says journalism across the country is facing a two-pronged attack from both commercial and political forces.
“You’re seeing sort of discrete and specific and seemingly almost comedic attacks. You don’t say ‘Gulf of America’? Get to the back of the line,” Folkenflik says. “I think it’s actually part of a larger effort to control the flow of information.”
On this week’s episode of More To The Story, Folkenflik talks to host Al Letson about this unprecedented moment for journalists, why more media outlets seem to be bowing to pressure from the Trump administration, and how journalism can begin to win back public trust.
Interview:
David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works, which is once again being threatened by conservatives in Washington.
The second Trump administration has aggressively gone after the media in its first few months. It’s kicked news organizations out of the Pentagon. It’s barred other newsrooms from access to the White House. And Trump supporters in Congress have targeted federal funding for public media.
In late March, the heads of NPR and PBS testified on Capitol Hill to defend public broadcasting from Republicans accusing them of political bias. Meanwhile, some major news organizations seem to be capitulating and bending to the will of the Trump administration.
Folkenflik, who’s been covering media for two decades for NPR, says journalism across the country is facing a two-pronged attack from both commercial and political forces.
“You’re seeing sort of discrete and specific and seemingly almost comedic attacks. You don’t say ‘Gulf of America’? Get to the back of the line,” Folkenflik says. “I think it’s actually part of a larger effort to control the flow of information.”
On this week’s episode of More To The Story, Folkenflik talks to host Al Letson about this unprecedented moment for journalists, why more media outlets seem to be bowing to pressure from the Trump administration, and how journalism can begin to win back public trust.
Interview:
Thursday, April 24, 2025
How the powerful are trying to undermine press freedoms in the US (Diane Rehm)
Donald Trump’s love-hate relationship with the news media was on full display throughout his first term. He screamed “fake news” at negative coverage and labeled journalists the “enemy of the people.” But lately, he has taken his campaign beyond the court of public opinion, filing lawsuits against ABC, CBS, The Des Moines Register, and the Pulitzer Board.
David Enrich is the business investigations editor for the New York Times. He says Trump’s legal actions are part of a broader conservative movement to undermine First Amendment protections for the press.
The effort is being led, he says, by politicians, billionaires and corporations – and may soon make its way to the Supreme Court. He joins Diane tells the story in new book, “Murder the Truth.”
Interview:
David Enrich is the business investigations editor for the New York Times. He says Trump’s legal actions are part of a broader conservative movement to undermine First Amendment protections for the press.
The effort is being led, he says, by politicians, billionaires and corporations – and may soon make its way to the Supreme Court. He joins Diane tells the story in new book, “Murder the Truth.”
Interview:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Jessica Yellin on Our Anxiety Producing News Cycle (Al Franken podcast)
A potentially catastrophic breach of security within The White House has set off alarm bells for both Republicans and Democrats in D.C. Independent journalist Jessica Yellin joins us to discuss SignalGate. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are both under fire after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group chat that contained top secret war plans (or was it just attack plans?). Will anyone get fired for this?
Plus, we talk about the Trump administration’s lawlessness when it comes to deportations. What happens when a President blatantly defies a court order?
And Jessica shares why she left mainstream news and the importance of independent, online journalism, like her platform – News Not Noise.
Subscribe to Jessica’s Substack: https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/
Follow Jessica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicayellin
Interview:
Plus, we talk about the Trump administration’s lawlessness when it comes to deportations. What happens when a President blatantly defies a court order?
And Jessica shares why she left mainstream news and the importance of independent, online journalism, like her platform – News Not Noise.
Subscribe to Jessica’s Substack: https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/
Follow Jessica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicayellin
Interview:
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Reporter allegedly attacked by man saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’
An arrest affidavit in the case said Egan arrived by taxi, pulled up next to Alex – who was on an assignment at the time – at a stoplight and asked: "Are you even a US citizen? This is Trump's America now! I'm a marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!"
The affidavit described Egan as tackling Alex and putting him in a headlock before Egan "began to strangle him", causing co-workers to run out and help...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
The $100M Free Press (Conspirituality podcast)
The Free Press founder, Bari Weiss, recently hosted Peter Thiel on her podcast. While The FP markets itself as as a return to independent and non-partisan real journalism, Julian and Derek point out that's not the case at all—especially when the organization's $15M in funding comes from rightwing and libertarian VCs. Will Weiss factcheck Thiel's misinformation in real-time, as a "non-partisan" outlet should?
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