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‘People here remember how the South Bronx became the most famous slum in America.’ Photo: President Jimmy Carter during his Bronx visit in 1977. (Teresa Zabala/The New York Times) 29 June 2023 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Let us…
We know how to take back control of our lives. We know because we are humans. Not robots or consumers or insipid algorithms. We are humans. 04 May 2023 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Below you will read…
President Biden talked about freedom of the press during his remarks at the 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He made no mention of the Australian journalist Julian Assange who is still in prison in the UK at the behest of…
After being banished from the ‘mainstream,’ popular writer and dissident Chris Hedges is back with a weekly broadcast on The Real News Network. 07 November 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The Chris Hedges Report The Real News…
The ‘media’ is always telling us not to trust the media. Isn’t it time we started to listen to them? By James Porteous 14 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News by James Porteous In theory, North East…
‘Combined, the three networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — devoted 562 minutes to the first full month of the war in Ukraine.’ The Price Of ‘Selective Inattention’ – Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, And The Climate Apocalypse 05 May 2022 |…
The US and UK #StandForUkraine even as they persecute Julian Assange. The United Nations’ special rapporteur Nils Melzer aims to set the record straight in his new book, The Trial of Julian Assange. Photo: A protest outside Australia House, London…
Weaponising the media normalises war and undermines democracy, making it ever harder to reach or accept a peaceful settlement Debating the debate over the Russian war in Ukraine 04 May 2022 | Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera English The war…
We trace the path from actual ‘war correspondents’ to our rather odd, antiseptic, human-interest version of ‘war.’ Photo: Screenshot: Opening Night of Shock and Awe – CNN 16 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News By James Porteous…
As Ghada Hania points out, there is a stark difference between war coverage in Ukraine and other… ‘uncivilized’ battles for freedom Photo: Screenshot – CBS correspondent Charlie D’Agata 07 March 2022 | GHADA HANIA | Mondoweiss | With additional video…
The term was originally used to describe pirates’ wielding of friendly (and false) flags to lure merchant ships close enough to attack. Nothing has changed, really. Illustration: (US State Dept. Gregory) 18 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media…
There are many challenges facing shuttered newspapers that might have decades or even centuries of archival material to preserve. Photo: (Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr) 24 November 2021 | Andrew Egan | Tedium A slow death by a thousand paper cuts Newspapers and…
