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Media and Democracy Heroes are the reporters and advocates who refuse to normalize lies.

Join the Media and Democracy Project’s 2025 Review & Celebration to honor them and look ahead to 2026. Special guests, announcements, more…
Thurs Jan 22 - Zoom - 8pm ET / 5pm PT

RSVP here! https://www.mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/event/875645/

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Apr 1, 2025

Dan Gillmor Apr 1, 2025

Sad to see the Center for Public Integrity shutting down. In its day the nonprofit journalism organization did some of the finest investigative work in the field. https://www.cjr.org/news/center-for-public-integrity-shutting-down.php

Center for Public Integrity is shutting down

Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.

Columbia Journalism Review

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Dec 3, 2024

James Gleick Nov 16, 2024

“‘Lesson 1. Do not obey in advance.’ Lesson apparently not learned.’”

Do read James Fallows on the “death-cloud of misinformation” that elected Trump and continues unabated.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/after-the-election-swimming-in-the?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

After the Election: Swimming in the Sea of Disinformation.

“It really is nothing new, but you are watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.” Writers and thinkers on where the denial of reality can lead.

Breaking the News

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Oct 7, 2024

Jeff Jarvis Oct 7, 2024

Media should be covering media as a political actor--and a big story--but they rarely do....
‘Every day is a new conspiracy’: behind Trump’s ironclad grip on rightwing media
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/07/trump-rightwing-media-tv-podcasts-sites?CMP=share_btn_url

‘Every day is a new conspiracy’: behind Trump’s ironclad grip on rightwing media

What rightwing outlets cover increasingly differs from the mainstream, furthering the bubbles a divided US lives in

The Guardian

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Oct 7, 2024

Show thread

delong Oct 4, 2024

...in 2016. Nobody is offering any excuses for their actions today:

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Most of Us Do Not Recognize How Hard the Corrupt Supreme Court Republican Majority, the "New York Times", & so Many Others Are Working to Elect Donald Trump
Yes, and grave moral fault attaches to them all...
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Most of Us Do Not Recognize How Hard the Corrupt Supreme Court Republican Majority, the "New York Times", & so Many Others Are Working to Elect Donald Trump

Yes, and grave moral fault attaches to them all...

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Sep 11, 2024

Jeff Jarvis Sep 11, 2024

And here I was complimenting The Times' debate coverage this morning. Then this. The Times must Times. #BrokenTimes @DougJBalloon

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Jan 24, 2024

[email protected]❌👑Jan 23, 2024

I’m attending The Media and Democracy Project’s event, “A conversation with journalist/editor/author Margaret Sullivan” – sign up now to join me! https://www.mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/event/584804

A conversation with journalist/editor/author Margaret Sullivan · The Media and Democracy Project

Join us via Zoom for a conversation with Margaret Sullivan. "How journalism can help save democracy. An exploration - and an action plan!" We are honored and ecstatic to have Margaret Sullivan join us for a conversation and Q & A. She is an author, journalist, and editor. She has been a Public Editor at the New York Times, a columnist for the Washington Post, and currently writes for the Guardian and recently joined the Columbia Journalism School as Executive Director of the Newmark Center. https://margaretsullivan.substack.com She is the author of"Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy" and most recently "Newsroom Confidential" https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/newsroom-confidential/

Mobilize

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Jan 24, 2024

Brad Friedman Jan 11, 2024

Will Corporate Media Step Up to Meet 2024's Unprecedented Challenges?: Today's #BradCast

Guest: @froomkin of Press Watch; Also: A whole bunch of long-overdue accountability news for a whole bunch of rightwingers!...

FULL STORY, LISTEN: https://bradblog.com/?p=14894

Will Corporate Media Step Up to Meet 2024's Unprecedented Challenges?: 'BradCast' 1/10/2024

Guest: Dan Froomkin of Press Watch; Also: A whole bunch of long-overdue accountability news for a whole bunch of rightwingers!...

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Nov 14, 2023

Jennifer Nov 13, 2023

The media is finally getting its shit together and writing accurate headlines about the former president. This is my favorite from today. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45822510/trump-veterans-day-speech/
#Media #Elections #USPolitics #Trump

Nazi-Curious Madman Currently Under Indictment For 91 Felonies Gives Speech

Trump's rhetoric, coupled with his stated plans for his next presidency, should clarify for any thinking human being the fact that he must not be elected next year.

Esquire

Fix Media Now (MAD_democracy)Nov 13, 2023

Gladwyn d’Souza Nov 6, 2023

In one of the most perilous moments of crisis the world has seen in 75 years, and with the basic notions of free speech under assault, most newsrooms aren’t fighting back. They are, instead, pulling their punches in a defensive, “rope-a-dope” crouch, and thus failing to truly inform — when democracy itself is at risk.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html

With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy

News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad and fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.

The Philadelphia Inquirer