Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
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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Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Project 2025’s plan for turning government funded independent media into President’s bully pulpit
Voice of America, PBS, NPR to become propaganda machines of the fascist leader…
Think of what MAGA white supremacists and Christian nationalists can do when they replace journalism with their preferred messages.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election
According to a recent report from NewsGuard, a company that aims to counter misinformation by studying and rating news websites, the websites are so prolific that "the odds are now better than 50-50 that if you see a news website purporting to cover local news, it's fake."
NewsGuard estimates that there are a staggering 1,265 such fake local news websites in the US – 4% more than the websites of 1,213 daily newspapers left operating in the country...
Monday, March 25, 2024
Domenico Montanaro – NPR’s senior political editor/correspondent (Al Franken podcast)
Domenico Mantanaro joins us to cover the political landscape! 
- Trump trials,
- the general election,
- the Robert Hur report, and
- Congress.
- Plus, is Donald Trump taking over the RNC to help bail him out of his financial problems?
- And as a reporter, how does Domenico maintain objectivity vs neutrality?
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Fears US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election
Job losses, declining circulations and local newspaper closures could mean spread of misinformation in pivotal election year…
Friday, March 1, 2024
Bias hiding in plain sight: Decades of analyses suggest US media skews anti-Palestinian
The displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 remains a top Palestinian concern, because it turned about 80% of Palestinians into stateless refugees.
"Rarely, however, is the history of how these people became refugees incorporated into the reporting," and neither is the body of international law and consensus on their rights, states journalism scholar Marda Dunsky, who conducted the analysis. An analysis of 30 major U.S. print and broadcast outlets over four years – from 2000 to 2004 – found that the coverage lacked this important context during the second intifada...
Saturday, February 24, 2024
How you can tell propaganda from journalism − let’s look at Tucker Carlson’s visit to Russia
"Ultimately, the distinction between journalism and propaganda is the difference between Gershkovich and Carlson.
Gershkovich sits in a Russian prison for investigating the truth about Putin's Russia in service to the American public and his employer. Carlson flies around the world praising authoritarian leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orban, while "rooting" for dictators like Vladimir Putin when they attack their neighbors. "Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which I am," he said in 2019 about the Ukraine-Russian conflict.
To expose abusive governmental power and hold it accountable "to the opinions of mankind" is literally written in America's Declaration of Independence. To travel abroad praising dictatorships for their subways and cheeseburgers while ignoring their murderousness, and to return "radicalized … against our leaders" because foreign supermarket prices are low, is certainly not journalism. It is propaganda..."
Thursday, December 7, 2023
A New Trump Administration Will ‘Come After’ the Media, Says Kash Patel - The New York Times
Donald Trump, who has already promised to use the Justice Department to "go after" his political adversaries, is expected to install Mr. Patel in a senior role if he returns to power...
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