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      Anti-war protest in London on February 15, 2003

      20 Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Will the Media's Complicity Be Flushed Down the Memory Hole?

      As we mark the anniversary of the murderous U.S. invasion of Iraq, it's imperative to reclaim the memory of this war not only from the Bush administration officials who waged it, but also from the corporate media system that helped sell it.

      Jeremy Earp
      Mar 17, 2023

      "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen

      As mainstream U.S. media outlets pause to remember the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it's clear that there's a lot they hope we'll forget—first and foremost, the media's own active complicity in whipping up public support for the war.

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      Whatever Happened to the New York Times Fact-Checker?

      The New York Times’failure to fact-check right-wing columnist Bret Stephens on Covid-19 and mask-wearing has real-world consequences.

      Steven Harper
      Feb 25, 2023

      Labeling a newspaper column an “opinion” doesn’t create a license to play fast and loose with facts.

      All of my op-eds for the New York Times have gone through rigorous fact-checking with a conscientious Times editor. Apparently, columnist Bret Stephens is exempt from any such requirement. The Times should alert its readers to his special status so they can protect themselves.

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      The National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters is on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C.

      Why NPR's Layoffs Are a Public Policy Problem

      The struggle to find the revenue to keep NPR reporters on their beats is a failure to advocate for policies that would increase the public funding it and other noncommercial media outlets need to thrive.

      Tim Karr
      Feb 25, 2023

      More than 50 years on, it's easy to wonder what went wrong with the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the legislation that created public media as we've come to know it in the United States. Despite the popular understanding that a healthy democracy requires a free press, the U.S. Congress remains reluctant to offer public subsidies for any journalism that doesn't operate under the dictates of the commercial marketplace.

      Nowhere is this more evident than in news from earlier this week that NPR plans to cut 10% of its staff to make up a budget shortfall of $30 million. The reason NPR's chief executive gives for the layoffs is not the routine failure of Congress to fund public radio journalism at the level it needs, but a "sharp decline in our revenues from corporate sponsors."

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