Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
If the Paramount/WBD deal moves forward, Larry and David Ellison would gain control of a vast portfolio spanning legacy media and Big Tech.
The Digital Media Oligarchy: Who Owns Online News?
More than half of US visits to major online news sites from Dec. 2024 through Nov. 2025 went to outlets controlled by just seven families or corporate entities.
Why the Right Calls Mangione the ‘Ivy League’ Killer
Coding Luigi Mangione as an Ivy Leaguer paints him as an out-of-touch rich kid rather than an anti-establishment renegade.
NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies
The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.
‘This Decline in Local Journalism Was Noticed First by Journalists Themselves’:
CounterSpin interview with Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
“They could buy the newspaper for a song, sell the building, maybe sell the printing press…and they’ve already made their money back.”
Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.
‘We Need to Separate Capitalism and Journalism’
CounterSpin interview with Victor Pickard on the crisis of journalism
“The government is always involved in our news information systems. But the question is, how should it be involved?”
Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.
Baltimore’s Media Nightmare and the Billionairification of News
David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city’s media (AP, 1/15/24). Sinclair is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company and one of the largest owners of television stations in […]
Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things
The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.
‘We Know What Keeps Us Safe: People Need Care and Not Punishment’
“What invest/divest demands is the investing in mental health support, the investing in first responders who actually know what to do in a crisis,”
‘The Athletic Is the Negation of Local Sports Coverage’
“When you get rid of local coverage, what you also get rid of is the watchdog that is so important…. It’s not all fun and games.”
FTC Chair’s Efforts to Curb Corporate Power ‘Raise Questions’—From Corporate America
The New York Times made minimal effort to point out the monetary incentives of the critics of the FTC it highlighted.
Dehumanization Killed Jordan Neely—and Dominated Coverage of His Death
Much of the corporate press refrained from framing Neely as a victim, and far-right media outlets went even further to excuse the killing.
Wrath at Khan: Right Sets Sights at FTC for Regulating Tech
Republicans portray themselves as defending Twitter against a partisan inquisition, but the right has always stood up for corporate giants.
Musk’s Money Is Playing Old Games With New Media
There’s a long history of monied parties taking over media and watering them down, even breaking them up for parts.
YouTube’s Biggest Info Channels Carry Corporate News, Not Alternative Views
Despite the focus on YouTube’s independent and sometimes extremist offerings, 83 of the top 100 YouTube news channels are corporate media,
Documenting the Struggle Against a Hedge Fund Stripping Journalism for Parts
What is lost when billionaires who are only concerned with profiteering take over our most influential news organizations?
Jeff Bezos’ Fake News in the Newspaper He Really Owns
A front-page, “truthy-looking” Washington Post ad about Amazon’s corporate benevolence is designed to deflect from troubling realities.
Corporate Media Deny Their Own Existence, Despite Driving Biden’s Primary Victory
Election Focus 2020:Looking at corporate media’s coverage of corporate media, one gets the sense that anyone who dares to suggest that media corporations like Comcast-owned MSNBC, AT&T-owned CNN or News Corp–owned Fox News have their own commercial interests—which incentivize them to push pro-corporate politics—are kooky “conspiracy theorists.”
