All we need to know about political messaging we learned in kindergarten A conversation with my kindergartner. An inspiring discussion. We can say this to adults too.
The World Cup, Rupert Murdoch, and monopolistic influence on US media Media owned by billionaires, Murdoch to Musk, is fracturing American democracy. Let's look at our media concentration rules.
Post seems like it wants to be the "Uber of news." Let's be careful. Twitter is becoming more of a far-right clown show by the day. I saw someone refer to Elon Musk as "QElon" and that captures the feeling over on Twitter right now. Musk is handing over documents to Bari Weiss, the dubiously self-canceled ex-NYT rightwinger. He's working with an authoritarian-leaning writer
Twitter is being used by a billionaire to shift public opinion. Time to go elsewhere When your opponent controls the playing field, you will always lose that fight. Let's democratize our media.
Responding to your MAGA relatives this Thanksgiving Talk about media and how rightwing billionaires harm average Americans. It works! A visit with family and friends is in the cards for many of us this weekend. Sometimes, tough conversations come out during those visits. Political issues in America are taking on more and more import with each year
Overreliance on polling is sinking American democracy Democratic leaders: be bold and strategic, instead of making every decision based on data Boosters for COVID-19 have become a high-stakes issue. This summer, Americans thought COVID would fade, and we would be looking at a more-normal fall. But then new variants arrived. The story of boosters highlights a critical
Media bothsidesism hasn't improved since 2016. Aargh! How has the media not yet figured out how to deal with bad-faith liars?? In 2016, after the election, to reassure myself things might not be that terrible, I leaned on the expectation this president would draw attention to some major problems in our public information sphere. I thought that
How the Trump base was cultivated by lies about "line cutting" – from Reagan, through Fox I was inspired by Seth Cotlar’s take on how modern conservatism got to where they are at today, but there’s one aspect he didn’t cover. From a red area, I watched Republican media, and Republican elites, cultivate the GOP base to want someone like Trump. Republicans have