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“60 Minutes” Correspondent Pelley Calls Out CBS Execs for “Murdering” Program
The meeting came less than a week after mass firings at the network – an incident workers have dubbed “Black Thursday.”
Pentagon Announces Policy Designating Its Press Office as a “Classified Area”
“This is the most transparent War Department in history,” a Pentagon official said following the policy barring media.
Student Journalist Awarded by CBS Condemns Network’s Shift Right at News Emmys
“Journalism that serves the people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial,” said Santiago Campos.
Eid al-Adha in Gaza Isn’t Like It Was Before the Genocide. We Celebrate Anyway.
“This Eid, we will try to live it simply and reclaim even a small part of our traditions,” said one Gaza resident.
By Serving as Stenographers to Power, Corporate Media Abetted Israel’s Genocide
Failure to accurately cover the destruction of Gaza is inimical to the basic professional canons of journalism.
Is There a Future Without Incarceration? Abolitionist Art Shows Us One.
Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.
Trump Celebrates Colbert’s Ouster at Hands of CBS Owners Aligned With His Admin
CBS owner Paramount Skydance is now seeking another megamerger that would put more media under Ellison family control.
Jewish Holiday of Shavuot Links Economic Justice With Expanding Social Freedom
The divisions the ruling class manufactures and depends upon hinder the universal liberation that the Torah envisions.
Director of E. Jean Carroll Film Says Distribution Was “Quite a Challenge”
The documentary examines Carroll’s legal fights against Trump for sexual assault and defamation.
We Must Resist the Collapse of Conscience in the Age of Trump
Trumpism can only thrive in a culture stripped of its conscience. To combat this, conscience must become contagious.
FCC Orders Early Review of ABC Licenses the Day After Trump Attacks Jimmy Kimmel
The only Democratic commissioner calls the move “the most offensive assault on the First Amendment so far by this FCC.”
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Cosmic Wonder as Resistance to Despair
Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein urges curiosity and joy as tools to confront fascism and break imposed limits.
Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory
“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.