‘What Is a Journalist if Not an Advocate on Behalf of the Public?’
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Bump it!Janine Jackson interviewed Rory O’Connor for the July 1, 2016, episode of CounterSpin.
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Bush, Blair and the Lies That Justified the Illegal Iraq War
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Bump it!The Chilcot report, released today by the British government, concluded what most have known for a long time: that Tony Blair took Britain to war on the basis of
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USA Today Ducking the Question of Militarism
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Bump it!The top story for USA Today on July 8, 2016: Some Western countries aren’t spending enough money on weapons of war.
“NATO Nations Ducking the Check” was the headline across the top of the front page.
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Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth
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Bump it!The close relationship between reporters and police is often marked by diffusion of language from the police PR team to the front page. In the wake of the deaths of
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NYT’s Glass Is Half Full of Half-Truths
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Bump it!“When Did Optimism Become Uncool?” wonders a New York Times Sunday Review piece (5/12/16) by Gregg Easterbrook. “The country is, on the whole, in the best shape it’s ever been in,” Easterbrook writes. “So what explains all the bad vibes?”
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Vox’s CIA-Backed ‘Democracy’ Standard Is OK With Slavery and Women Not Voting
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Bump it!Defining democracy is a notoriously difficult thing, but much is revealed by how media outlets choose to do so.
One popular metric is called “Polity IV”—a methodology created by the
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