Media
Another In-Depth Interview With My Sons About Today’s World
What starts with COVID and ends with butt jokes? This interview!
Wirecutter’s Black Friday Pick Is a Fair Contract
Black Friday gives the website's staff some much-needed leverage.
The ‘Top Gun’ Sequel Is Flooding Reality TV With Weird Military Propaganda
Don't mind this military promo in the middle of your favorite reality TV show.
The New York Times’ War On Its Newest Unions Is Heating Up
Employees at Wirecutter are threatening a strike over Black Friday weekend, the site's busiest time of the year.
The BBC Is Being Gripped By a Wave of Transphobia
TERFism has enveloped the highest levels of the British media—and we can't be complacent about it.
Does Brian Williams Need Forgiveness?
Revisiting the defining moment of the longtime NBC News anchor's career.
It’s Time For the Social Media Workforce to Organize
Something is happening in the world of social media managers and editors—and it looks a bit like the beginning of a labor movement.
Please Fuck Off: Broadcast Legend Katie Couric
Let me be clear: what Couric did isn't shocking. The fact that she admitted it openly is.
Big Scoop From Axios: Kyrsten Sinema Rules!
Somehow, the site keeps getting big exclusives about how awesome the Arizona senator is. Weird!
The Guardian’s Censoring of Judith Butler Part of a Pattern, Current and Former Staffers Say
'The British editorial staff seem to be allowing transphobia to crop up even where it's not even relevant.'
Qatari Government Gets Nice Press Hit in the New York Times
Silly me for expecting the Times to weed this kind of blatant puff piece out before it hits print.
The Union Wave Hitting America’s Biggest Newspaper Chain
'It’s not that we’re breaking new ground here, we’re just catching up with the rest of the industry.'
This Is What Propaganda Looks Like
Why is the New York Times rushing to explain away a drone strike which killed ten innocent people?
The Media Is In a World of Its Own on Afghanistan
Americans overwhelmingly oppose the war—but you'd never know that from the media coverage this past week.
A Boss is Still a Boss
The shakeup at Current Affairs shows once again who the enemy is.
My New Favorite Thing is Conservative Weirdos Blaming Afghanistan on Wokeness
If there's one thing the Taliban hates, it's gender studies symposiums!
The Lies the Pundits Keep Telling Us About Afghanistan
So much of the outrage about the U.S. withdrawal is built on fantasies that pundits won't stop peddling.
The New York Times Won’t Stop Gaslighting Its Unionizing Workers
Audio obtained by Discourse Blog shows the paper's CEO trying to blame the union for a recent breakdown in talks. Sources say the truth is just the opposite.
