Interesting discussion here about the vast decline in media consumption since the election, from the left to the right. Web traffic, social media engagement and app user sessions suggest that while th
Rick Santorum can spew his racist nonsense about Native Americans in part because the major cultural institutions in the nation have not done anything to contribute to reminding the mass numbers of Am
The Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation have a long essay on how the media has completely failed to cover climate change: Yet at a time when civilization is accelerating toward disaster, climate
Above: A Democrat the Media Can Love The endless array of articles claiming Democrats are doomed if they can’t win REAL AMERICANS has reached its apotheosis: bemoaning the fact that southern Dem
In my new gig as a blogger for the International Observatory of Human Rights, I talk about the ways journalists, human rights workers, and humanitarians are turning to animation to present graphic sub
Greg Sargent has been on a tear for the past forty-eight hours as he discusses the non-partisan media’s inability to handle Trump. Yesterday, he wrote that: … the Justice Department’s in
Just what Twitter needs. Another bunch of liberals and lefties feuding with Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald I fear may have responded to Erik Loomis’ post because this blog superficially fits Greenwa
Smithsonian magazine revisits the political satire of 1960’s children’s show Rocky and Bullwinkle. I’ve been doing some research into children’s media these days (as you can