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Text over a black background, reading "Palestinian militants" with "militants" crossed out and replaced with terrorists. "Israeli officials" is crossed out and replaced with "the Israeli occupation." | Illustration: Lex Villena; France24

Middle East

How Middle East Outlets Reframe the News To Fit Their Narrative

Changing phrases to be for or against Israel is part of the job.

Matthew Petti | 8.15.2023 3:35 PM

24/7 Politics: Cable Television & the Fragmenting of America From Watergate to Fox News, by Kathryn Cramer Brownell. | Princeton University Press

Television

The Battlefields of Cable

How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV

Jesse Walker | 8.15.2023 8:00 AM

Defund NPR: End Government Subsidies for Public Broadcasting | Illustration: Lex Villena; Jakub Gojda

Politics

Ax Government Funding for NPR

NPR is no Xinhua, but Elon Musk is correct that it doesn't need government subsidies.

Liz Wolfe | 4.13.2023 12:05 PM

Fox News

Political Ignorance

Fox News 2020 Election Coverage Decisions Demonstrate that Demand for Misinformation is a Bigger Problem than the Supply

Major Fox talk show hosts knew that Trump's claims of a stolen election were false, but chose not to say so on air, for fear it would anger their audience.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.20.2023 10:15 AM

Liz Harrington | Screenshot: Real America's Voice

First Amendment

No, You Don't Have a First Amendment Right To Get Your Speech Aired on Cable News

On Tuesday night, Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington made the baffling claim that, if mainstream news channels failed to air the former president's campaign announcement in full, it would mean that "we do not have the First Amendment."

Emma Camp | 11.17.2022 4:41 PM

31 | Yui Mok/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Cancel Culture

GB News Stands Up to U.K. Cancel Culture and Wins

Advertisers found that appeasing an illiberal mob wasn’t a safe choice after all.

J.D. Tuccille | 6.23.2021 7:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Chris Kleponis/SIPA/Newscom

Reason Roundup

Eight Minutes of Televised Trump Tonight Could Cause Chaos: Reason Roundup

Plus: Israel boycott bill divides Democrats, Cyntoia Brown gets clemency, and the "skills gap" was a lie.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.8.2019 9:30 AM

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Censorship

'I Believe in the First Amendment,' Says FCC Chair, Rejecting Trump's Censorious Tweets

Ajit Pai notes that his agency has no authority to consider journalistic content in making license decisions.

Jacob Sullum | 10.17.2017 1:45 PM

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John Stossel

John Stossel: The Man. The Myth. The Moustache.

The TV newsman looks back on his career at 20/20 and Fox News, and talks about the future of video.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.11.2017 6:00 AM

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