Phil Donahue’s vindication: Media icon unloads on Fox, Cheney and what happened at MSNBC
Legendary TV host was fired for opposing Iraq war. Here's how he feels seeing the return of those who got it wrong
 As has been well-documented, and will hopefully long be taught in journalism schools nationwide, the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not the American mainstream media’s finest hour. There are plenty of obvious examples — Judith Miller’s reporting for the New York Times, &n
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 “Poverty and income inequality, Scott, are shaping up to be key issues, not just here in the capital this year but at the White House as well.”
——Reporter Nancy Cordes to anchor Scott Pelley (CBS Evening News, 1/8/14)
With poverty at 15 percent, inequality rising and Republican politicians talking about addressing the problem by cutting federal programs that help the poor, one might expect poverty to occupy a solid spot on media agendas.
This isn’t the case, according to a new FAIR study of nightly network news shows. The study looked at ABC World News, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News for a 14-month period (1/1/13– 2/28/14) in the wake of the 2012 elections. FAIR examined stories in the Nexis
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Distorting Russia
How the American media misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine.
 The degradation of mainstream American press coverage of Russia, a country still vital to US national security, has been under way for many years. If the recent tsunami of shamefully unprofessional and politically inflammatory articles in leading newspapers and magazines—particularly about the Sochi Olympics, Ukraine and, unfailingly, President Vladimir Putin—is an indication, this media malpractice is now pervasive and the new norm.
There are notable exceptions, but a general pattern has developed. Even in the venerable New York Times and Washington Post, news reports, editorial
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NBC's Peacock Productions in quiet fight with rising writer's union
Top stars stay silent as Writer’s Guild of America-East accuses NBC’s Peacock managers of union-bashing NBC Universal has two seemingly unrelated problems on its hands. First, there’s MSNBC’s falling fortunes: the cable network has launched a new schedule with Ronan Farrow at the helm, an attempt to get past a series of mis-steps that resulted in the departures of long-term anchor Martin Bashir and short-lived host Alec Baldwin.
Then there’s a more intricate and increasingly public issue: an attempt by the writer’s union to gain recognition at Peacock Productions, the non-fiction production arm of NBC News. The Writer’s Guild
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During a live broadcast on Wednesday, RT America presenter Liz Wahl announced she was stepping down, citing her disagreements with the network’s editorial policy. RT issued a statement following her resignation.
Read about Abby Martin, Liz Wahl and media
wars
Ms. Wahl's resignation comes on the heels of her colleague Abby
Martin's recent comments in which she voiced her disagreement
with certain policies of the Russian government and asserted her
editorial independence. The difference is, Ms. Martin spoke in
the context of her own talk show, to the viewers who have been
tuning in for years to hear her opinions on current events – the
opinions that most media did not care about until two days ago.
For years, Ms. Martin has been speaking out against US military
interven
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Today RT America anchor Liz Wahl resigned on air, claiming she disagrees with the channel’s editorial stance. And here’s what I have to say about it.
These days it takes a lot of courage to work for RT. Never before
have I seen RT and its journalists bullied like this. See for
yourselves what they did to poor Abby. First, she openly voiced
disagreement with Russia’s stance on air – and was virtually made
an American hero. But then Abby reminded everyone how much she
disagrees with America’s stance as well, adding she takes pride
in working at RT, where she is free to express her views. Less
than an hour passed before Abby had her name dragged through
something I have difficulty finding a decent name for this late
at night. The US mainstream media even went as far as claiming we
had orchestrated the whole thing as a publicity move. They
labeled Abby a conspiracy theorist, bringing to light her past as
an activist. In less than 24 hours, they first sang her prai
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 The key to what is precisely wrong with corporate journalism is explained in this nutshell by the US commentator Michael Parenti:
‘Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for "objectivity”. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.’
Examples of bias towards the orthodoxy of Western power are legion every day of the week. On January 30 this year, David Loyn reported for BBC News at Ten from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan as US troops prepared to withdraw from a
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The Nation's Lee Fang with some pertinent information that must have been accidentally misplaced by Dancin' Dave Gregory during Sunday's Meet The Pr
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Respected left-wing journalist Chris Hedges joins the backlash against "We Steal Secrets." What's really going on?
 Last week the author and longtime war correspondent Chris Hedges, a leading figure in left-wing journalism, published a movie review as his weekly column for Truthdig. It’s not his usual beat, but this was no usual review. Hedges issued a thoroughgoing takedown of <
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