The Importance of Women-Owned and -Run Media
Prior to the fall of Roe v. Wade, women warned anyone who would listen that outlawing abortion would sicken or kill pregnant patients. Women rang the alarm about this for years, during Hillary...
View ArticleThat Time Euphemisms Got Too Woke For the Media
As the state government of Florida literally bans saying certain words in school, America’s free speech warriors are readying for battle. Not with Florida, though. Not with any of the many...
View ArticleThe Media Is Determined to Repeat All Its Mistakes in Covering Trump
Last Tuesday, on June 13, 2023, for the first time in history, a former U.S. president was indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges. Donald J. Trump was arrested, charged, and booked in a...
View ArticleManufactured Outrage Is Big Business
Last month was one of the most frightening in recent memory for the LGBTQIA+ community. Pride events across the country were canceled out of safety concerns, with violent anti-LGBTQIA groups disrupting...
View ArticleThe Raid on the ‘Marion County Record’ Is Only the Beginning
Journalists from the Marion County Record—a paper that reaches a rural Kansas area of less than 12,000 people— were doing some routine reporting three weeks ago when they asked local authorities about...
View ArticleThe Media Is Bumming People Out. That’s Intentional
The world is on fire. Our system of governing is broken. Covid is on the rise again. Poverty is skyrocketing. Coral reefs are collapsing, the Earth is quaking, and flood waters are rising in arid...
View ArticleJezebel’s Closure Is More Than Just a Media Story
It’s hard to even remember what women’s media was like in the early 2000s. Sex and the City—the now-iconic HBO series, not the New York Observer column by Candace Bushnell—was leading the discourse on...
View ArticleDoes Legacy Media Want a Repeat of Election 2016?
In his Veterans Day speech, former president Donald Trump promised to hunt down and murder his political enemies. “In honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root...
View ArticleDon’t Confuse Fake Newspapers With Local Journalism
My 9-year-old daughter reads everything that comes into our house, from landscaping business flyers to the Sunday New York Times. But one afternoon, something resembling a newspaper arrived in the mail...
View ArticleMedia Can’t Stop Stoking Outrage
One candidate for the presidency is old, sometimes trips over his words, and once kept a couple of boxes of paperwork in his house. Another candidate is old, sometimes trips over his words, keeps...
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