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Julie Hollar on Election 2020 Coverage
December 06, 2019

Election Focus 2020: Voters are looking for substantive reporting on candidates' public records. But as we record the show, the major election story seems to be about Joe Biden's leg hair.

‘It’s This Culture of Secrecy That’s Pervading the Courts’
December 05, 2019

"If the government is going to come in and say you can't say something you have a constitutional right to say, they have to meet a very high burden."

‘Giuliani Did All the Wrong Things on That Day’
December 05, 2019

"All of the media coverage in the aftermath of 9/11 stressed how Giuliani was the king of Ground Zero, that he ran it from top to bottom. That was at a time when everyone thought it was going so smoothly."

Wayne Barrett on Rudy Giuliani, Melissa Goodman on the PATRIOT Act
November 29, 2019

Much of media's story around Giuliani was about how cool and effective he was on September 11, 2001. And much of that story is myth.

‘This Was a Test Case to See How a Couple of Photos Could Silence Women’
November 28, 2019

"We all have stuff that lives on our phones and social media that could potentially have the same effect, if it's released in the way that Katie Hill’s information was released."

After Al-Baghdadi’s Death, Media Failed to Ask Where ‘War on Terror’ Is Going
November 22, 2019

The circumscribed coverage of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death represented yet another artful evasion of any critical discussion of imperial foreign policy.

Michael Edison Hayden on Stephen Miller, Mallory McMaster on Katie Hill
November 22, 2019

Calls are coming in for the resignation of Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller, after leaked emails show him promoting white nationalist books and ideas to the far-right outlet Breitbart.

‘Years From Now, It’ll Be Clear to Everyone There Was a Coup in Bolivia’
November 21, 2019

"The Organization of American States and much of the major media misled public opinion as to what was happening with these elections, and created this belief that there had been severe irregularities in the vote count."

‘Community Control Over Police Should Be a Democratic Right’
November 19, 2019

"The police and law enforcement are needed to sustain the status quo, and put down threats to the status quo that emanate from the people, but particularly organized and politically conscious formations and efforts."

Unpacking Media Propaganda About Bolivia’s Election
November 18, 2019

Editorials read as though it were a settled fact that the Morales government stole the election, though there’s a paucity of evidence to believe that that’s what happened.