Your Band Sucks: Jon Fine on How the Indie Cultural Revolution Changed America for the Better
"If you're telling me Amazon is bad for culture, like seriously, fuck you," says memoirist of '90s alt-music scene.
Media Criticism
Nicholas Kristof Applauds Extralegal Harassment of Backpage.com Because 'Adult' Services Sometimes Involve Minors
The columnist thinks you should go out of business if some of your customers are criminals.
Time Smears Charles Koch in Headline; Changes Headline, Still Misses His Point
"Gross Domestic Product" measures that include warmaking are not a good measure of citizen well-being.
Look Who's Defending Donald Trump
The enemy of the media is many conservatives' friend. Particularly those in the media.
Gawker Editors Resign, Nick Denton Says He Stepped in to Pull 'Pure Poison' Gay Escort Extortion Story
Says it wasn't helping with Hulk Hogan's lawsuit
What the 1970 Baseball All-Star Game Can Teach Us About Media Literacy
Pete Rose didn't ruin Ray Fosse's career any more than Walter Cronkite ended the Vietnam War.
Two Years After Snowden's Revelations, Western Officials Still Anonymously Claim Unproven Harms
And some journalists are more than happy to let them.
Is Reason Trying to Make the GOP 2016 Field Look Like a Bunch of White Males?
Short answer: No. Long answer: Et tu, Greta?
No, the Cold War Didn't Teach us That Forcible Regime-Change Is Swell
David Brooks can't even learn from our Iraq mistakes right
9 Media Tropes About Free Speech
Popehat's bookmarkable guide to journalistic nonsense about the First Amendment
Is the Seasteading Dream Really Dead?
Wired argues that "Silicon Valley is Letting Go of Its Techie Island Fantasies" on insufficient evidence.
George Stephanopoulos: Clinton Foundation Donor
Former Clinton official failed to disclose $50,000 in donations to ABC.
David Brooks Suddenly Cares About Privacy When Cops Wear Cameras
Videotaping the police? A grave incursion on our privacy. Scooping up data on hundreds of millions? Bo-ring!
Why Can't We Call the UVA Case a Hoax?
Evidence of how extreme and irrational "rape culture" dogma has become
Were Libertarians Behind the "Christian Nation" Idea?
The New York Times has a hostile, blinkered vision of a forgotten religious libertarian group, Spiritual Mobilization.
Are Gun Accidents More Dangerous Than Bathtubs to Kids? Depends on the Definition of "Kids"
The politicization of "fact checking" in media and that Daily Show List of Fox Lies
Scott Walker Didn't Graduate From College a Quarter-Century Ago and The Washington Post Is On It!
Paper devotes 2,300 words to unmysterious 'mystery'
Brian Williams Helped Pave the Way to War and He Wasn't the Only One
News readers have a habit of passing off lies, especially when those lies can help make the case for war
Maybe Brian Williams Just Needs to Write a Book Denouncing the Drug War?
Politico and other media outlets hound the NBC anchor while giving a pass to serial fabricator Johann Hari.
Glenn Greenwald: The Outsider
The anti-establishment journalist who midwifed the Edward Snowden revelations talks about surveillance, reporting, and new fault lines in American politics.
Charlie Hebdo and the Wimpiness of the Press
Major journalistic outlets may applaud Charlie Hebdo's defiance of terrorists, but they can't bring themselves to emulate it.
Will American News Organizations Reprint the Most Newsworthy Cartoon of the Year?
The New York Times had 9 years to come up with a better justification for not running images of Mohammed
GamerGate: How Consumers Are Influencing the Culture Battle
Video games have become America's favorite hobby. A culture clash over identity was probably inevitable.
