The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media
Tag: CBS
VP Debate Question on Mideast ‘Could Have Been Written by AIPAC’
The Council on American–Islamic Relations said the question was “reckless and biased” and “sounded like it could have been written by AIPAC, not CBS.”
For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Across the Anglo-American mainstream media the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter, writes Des Freedman.
25 YEARS OF CN: Assailing Assange, January 31, 2011
Today we begin a series of the Best of Consortium News over our first 25 years that will run throughout our jubilee year.
A Campaign Sinking to New Lows
The Republican presidential campaign has reached new lows for crassness, but Michael Winship sees something more sinister lurking in the ugliness.
The Dark Truth in the Movie ‘Truth’
Exclusive: Almost four decades after starring in “All the President’s Men,” Robert Redford returns portraying another famous journalist in “Truth.” But the world has been turned upside down. Mainstream media is no longer the hero exposing a corrupt president, but the villain protecting one, as…
The Corruption of Mainstream Media
America’s mainstream media still pretends it is the custodian of “serious journalism,” but that claim continues to erode as the corporate press shies away from its duty to challenge propaganda emanating from various parts of the U.S. government, as Danny Schechter describes.