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Michael Brooks

RIP Michael Brooks

July 21, 2020 Adam Levin Community/Common good, Democracy, Media, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Michael Brooks passed away yesterday. A journalist, comedian, podcaster, and socialist thinker, he was one of the most important young voices on the left.

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George Floyd Memorial

George Floyd’s Death Proves There is No “New Right”

July 1, 2020 Adam Levin Ideas, Media, Racial issues, Republican Brain Leave a comment

In the early 2000s, conservatism–excuse me, neoconservatism–was mainly focused on implementing austerity and fostering the War on Terror abroad. After the election of Barack Obama, we saw right-wing discourse shift in a libertarian direction.

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Sanders-Warren-Steyer

Beat The Press

January 21, 2020 Adam Levin 2020 Election, Media Leave a comment

Of course, I would be amiss if I didn’t mention the Gray Lady of liberalism herself, The New York Times. On Sunday they came out in support of not one, but TWO candidates for Democratic nominee: Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. Here’s some choice bits from their so-reasonable-it’s-actually-insane reasoning:

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iDENTITY JOURNALISM

Identity journalism pollutes the Democratic debate stage

September 14, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election, Candidates, Ideas, Media Leave a comment

Something I’m calling “identity journalism” has taken over the Democratic primary debates in 2019. Watching the third in a series of who-knows-how-many “debates” among

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Bob Dylan

Time is like a jet plane: Bob Dylan turns 78

May 27, 2019 Christopher Burke Media, People, Uncategorized One comment

Shuffling through my iTunes library recently, I switched to searching Artist by alphabet mode to help me find a song whose name I couldn’t

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Super Bowl

Washington Post Super Bowl Ad: A powerful message on freedom of the press

February 4, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil liberties, Constitution, Media Leave a comment

Amid oh-so-clever ads for beer, cars and snack foods, one Super Bowl LIII ad stood out yesterday—the sober message presented by the Washington Post:

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Kelly-O'Donnell

NBC Nightly News Goes Trivial when the nation needs Insight

January 21, 2019 Arthur Lieber Immigration, Media, Trump Leave a comment

What was not mentioned was that Trump not only did not express empathy for federal workers, he did not even acknowledge their existence.

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Surprising number of Republicans trust mainstream news

October 22, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Media, Republican Brain Leave a comment

When a local station runs a story about the Susan G. Komen efforts to fight breast cancer, is it liberal because it involves empathy, or is it conservative because it bypasses the entity with the greatest resources to fight cancer, the federal government?

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PEN

PEN writers’ group sues Trump over abuse of First Amendment

October 21, 2018 Renee Shur Activism, Constitution, Legal issues/Law, Media, Trump Leave a comment

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the

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Anonymous

Disheartening to hear criticism of NY Times and Anonymous

September 7, 2018 Arthur Lieber Constitution, Democracy, Impeachment, Media Leave a comment

Words like cowardly have been used to describe the person who wrote the anonymous op-ed to the New York Times.

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