Corporate media

Piers Morgan Called To Testify in Hacking Scandal (VIDEO) Piers Morgan Called To Testify in Hacking Scandal (VIDEO)

Once upon a time t CNN would be airing the hottest hearings of the day. Now  they're at the heart of the story, as Lord Justice Leveson calls CNN anchor Piers Morgan to &...

May 24, 2012 / Laura Flanders

All the Media Money Can Buy

All the Media Money Can Buy All the Media Money Can Buy

Why do journalists run interference for the 1 percent, when their job is to expose their schemes?

May 23, 2012 / Column / Eric Alterman

Dial M for Murdoch

Dial M for Murdoch Dial M for Murdoch

British investigations reveal the shocking extent of his shady tactics. Can we really believe he hasn’t used the same methods here?

May 2, 2012 / D.D. Guttenplan

Sean Combs’s New Channel: Comcast’s Crumb? Sean Combs’s New Channel: Comcast’s Crumb?

Comcast’s new minority-owned channels are the direct result of a deal cut with civil rights organizations. So where are the women’s channels?

Feb 24, 2012 / Laura Flanders

Drought

Capitalism vs. the Climate Capitalism vs. the Climate

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

Nov 9, 2011 / Feature / Naomi Klein

Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America’s Wildest School Board Race

Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America’s Wildest School Board Race Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America’s Wildest School Board Race

Denver's contest for local school board seats has already cost $600,000, as big-money backers of school privatization, charters and “choice” try to buy control of educa...

Oct 21, 2011 / John Nichols

Major News Corp Shareholders Vote to Replace Directors Major News Corp Shareholders Vote to Replace Directors

Will widespread shareholder discontent put a chink in Rupert Murdoch's armor?

Oct 18, 2011 / D.D. Guttenplan

How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People

How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People

Politicians don’t just need the billionaire media mogul’s cash—they need his newspapers, magazines and TV networks, too.

Aug 10, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman

Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink? Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink?

Corporate media help manufacture the Tea Party’s power every bit as much as the tea party manufactured our current debt “crisis.”

Jul 29, 2011 / Leslie Savan

Busting Murdoch’s Trust

Busting Murdoch’s Trust Busting Murdoch’s Trust

Rupert Murdoch is far from blameless—but he’s merely a symptom of the real disease: so much power in a single media corporation.

Jul 27, 2011 / The Editors

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