Filed Under: “Media business”

Australia’s leaders are finally speaking out against Rupert Murdoch’s lies, when will America’s?

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After decades under the thumb of Murdoch media, some of Australia’s leaders are finally declaring independence


Inside the disinformation machine: How far-right media brainwash millions daily

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Christian fundamentalists have quietly built massive propaganda empires that most Americans have never even heard of


Donald Trump lies constantly, but it took the establishment media years to finally report this

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After years of avoiding the term, large media outlets are finally beginning to use the word ‘lie’ to describe the former president’s serial deceptions


Rick Santorum and CNN’s long history of hiring bigoted and dishonest commentators

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While some CNN employees have rightfully begun to call out far-right dishonesty, the network has a long history of enabling shady pundits


Joe Rogan and our epidemic of pseudo-expertise

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Infotainment fandoms have convinced millions of people that blathering internet commentators are experts at everything


America’s profit-driven media system promotes disinformation

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Media business models predicated on maximizing audience will inevitably lead to junk news


Data journalists are great, but they must be transparent about their methods and conclusions

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As journalists begin to analyze and interpret data on their own, media outlets need to implement safeguards that work in academia


Movie studios are trying to re-make the 1930s through monopoly power

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Substack isn’t the disruption it’s marketed as, for both good and ill

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Substack and grassroots media platforms are empowering independent opinions, but what the world needs more is producers, editors, and investigators working together to counteract corporate media.


The media’s failure to scrutinize Rush Limbaugh early in his career enabled his lies and bigotry

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The talk radio icon’s chronic inaccuracy and lack of accountability were never called out as he rose to national prominence.


 

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