Tag Archives: free press

Three months ago, Sean Spicer said that banning media outlets from presidential press conferences is something that dictatorships do. Yesterday, the White House did just that.

By Mark | February 25, 2017

At some point prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump, angered by what he perceived to be negative press coverage, banned reporters from the Washington Post, Politico, and Buzzfeed from his campaign events. When asked this past December by Politico’s Jake Sherman whether or not we might expect to see the same kind of aggressive […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blacklist, Breitbart News, Buzzfeed, CPAC, Dan Rather, Dean Baquet, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fake news, First Amendment, journalism, New York Times, Politico, Sean Spicer, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Washington Post, White House Correspondents’ Association | 11 Comments

How to survive in a world without facts

By Mark | December 1, 2016

The utter disregard for truth that we’re seeing with Trump isn’t something that’s completely new… I just went through the archive here and found a number of instances over the past decade or so, where we’ve lamented the fact that truth was becoming a thing of the past. Back in 2008, I apparently even posted […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Ideas, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alison Camerota, Barack Obama, Birthers, citizen journalism, CNN, conspiracy theories, Detroit Free Press, fact check, future of journalism, Glenn Thrush, global climate change, Hannah Arendt, Hillary Clinton, House Committee on Science Space and Technology, James Fallows, journalism, Judith Miller, Lamar Smith, lies, lying, Margaret Sullivan, media literacy, New York Times, post-truth, press, Scottie Nell Hughes, swift boating, the future of journalism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the sad state of journalism, totalitarianism, voter fraud, voter impersonation, Washington Post, Ypsi-Arbor Progressive Book Club | 97 Comments

Discussing what the election results reveal about the changing political landscape of Michigan with former head of the Michigan Democratic Party Mark Brewer, exploring what future holds with State Reps Yousef Rabhi and Jeff Irwin, and talking about the recent rise in racial intimidation with the ACLU’s Mark Fancher… on this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | November 11, 2016

Like me, I suspect a lot of you are still a bit shellshocked, trying to make sense of Trump’s victory this past Tuesday night, and what it’s going to mean for us as a people going forward. If you’re like me, your somewhat paralyzed by the magnitude of it all, wondering how you’re going to […]