Government Should Not Define What a Reporter Is — or Isn’t
Sen. Diane Feinstein and a horde of members of Congress of both parties want to decide who is and who isn’t a reporter. Sen. Feinstein says a “real” reporter is a “salaried agent of a […]
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IRS Suppressing Nonprofit, Investigative Journalism?
Editor’s Note: Raging Chicken Press readers may recall that earlier this summer we announced that we intended to turn Raging Chicken into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization. This article was an unexpected outcome of our […]
Glenn Greenwald vs Meet the Press & Complacent Reporting | Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks
Editor’s Note: Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks is dead on about what has happened in Mainstream Media in the US. This morning’s exchange between NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory and Glenn Greenwald […]
BREAKING NEWS: AP, Media Fumble News Story
On the Sunday before the final presidential debate, Mitt Romney and some of his senior staffers played a flag football game with members of the Press Corps on Delray Beach, Fla. Ashley Parker of the […]
Just What is “Breitbarting”?
Well, for one thing, it is not journalism. When I wrote “The Pride and Reward of Falsification: Post-Objectivity as Post-Responsibility” for the recent book News with a View (edited by Burton St. John and Kirsten Johnson) centering […]
Union Basics the Media Often Gets Wrong—and Ways Right-Wing Messaging Sneaks into Labor Coverage
by Laura Clawson – Labor Editor, Daily Kos Editor’s Note: As readers of Raging Chicken know, I was in Providence, RI this past weekend for Netroots Nation 2012. The last session that I attended before we had […]
The “He Said/She Said” of Education
Jay Rosen provides a smell test for he said/she said journalism: There’s a public dispute. The dispute makes news. No real attempt is made to assess clashing truth claims in the story, even though they are in some sense […]