Category: Media

A Life in the Fray

American magazine owner Martin Peretz and editor Hedrick Hertzberg, of the New Republic magazine, Washington DC, August 1984. (Photo by Cynthia Johnson/Getty Images) A Life in the Fray A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of […]

Today In War Propaganda

Caitlin Johnstone Jul 9, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The New York Times has a new article out with the headline “Cluster Weapons U.S. Is Sending Ukraine Often Fail to Detonate” and the subheading “The Pentagon’s statements indicate that the cluster […]

David Weigel On Political Reporting

Andrew Sullivan Dave is a political reporter. He’s worked for The Washington Post, Slate, Bloomberg Politics, and he’s currently at Semafor. He’s also a contributing editor at Reason. In 2017 he wrote a book called The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, and he’s also a […]

The Fox News throne

June 17, 2023 Happy Saturday, Insiders! Jesse Watters rose to fame on Fox News as Bill O’Reilly’s attack dog. But is he the man to win back viewers after the network’s acrimonious split with Tucker Carlson? Today’s big story digs into whether Watters can resuscitate the network’s most […]

Why Propaganda Works

Caitlin Johnstone Jun 16, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s not really deniable that western civilization is saturated with domestic propaganda geared toward manipulating the way the public thinks, acts, works, shops and votes. Mass media employees have attested to the […]

Derrick Broze Interviews James Corbett in England

Appears in this episode The Corbett Report The Corbett Report explore the world of politics, history, science and economics from a radically alternative perspective. From geopolitical conspiracies to monetary manipulation, repressed history and social engineering, The Corbett Report goes where other podcasts fear to tread. VIDEO COURTESY: THE […]

CNN, wildfires, & AI

June 8, 2023 Hi, Insiders! This is Lisa Ryan, an executive editor on Insider’s audience team, writing to you from a very smoky New York City. Apple released its much-anticipated Vision Pro headset this week. The two biggest problems seem to be: 1. You look goofy wearing it, […]

Inside CNN’s epic fail

June 5, 2023 Hello, Insiders! Nicholas Carlson, global editor in chief, here. The Atlantic published a devastating profile of CNN CEO Chris Licht on Friday. He comes across as someone with no vision — and no backbone.   Several of Licht’s peers have shared their horror with me […]