2009

• Is Jon Stewart Our Ed Murrow? Maybe...

  Eric Alterman

  It's a sad comment on the state of the media that we have come to rely on funnymen to tell us the truth about our country.

• Death of Newspapers: Long Live Journalism?

  GRIT TV

  The Nation's John Nichols and other established journalists discuss the future of publishing and print journalism.

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  The People's Press Conference

  Ari Melber : Media Activism

  A new initiative empowers citizens to submit and rank questions for the president to answer.

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  Miseries of Il Manifesto

  Norman Birnbaum : Italy

  Italy's small, independent, radical daily is an indispensable voice on the left.

• The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers

  John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney : Publishing Industry

  The collapse of journalism threatens democracy itself--that's why we need a government rescue.

• Love Me, I'm a Conservative

  Katha Pollitt : Conservatives & The American Right

  Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat joins the New York Times's op-ed lineup. Depressing.

• John C. Hyde, Journalist and Author

  Rebecca Clarren

  Remembering a journalist, biographer and head of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

• It Can Happen Here

  Eric Alterman : Media Analysis

  Media watchdogs who slept through the Bush era now have little interest in examining just how many of our liberties were lost.

• The Post's Stimulus Chimp

  Les Payne : Racism & Discrimination

  The uproar over the New York Post's racially insensitive cartoon has nothing to do with Al Sharpton and everything to do with the ugly history of stereotypes.

• War Is Over (If You Want It)

  Eric Alterman : George W. Bush Administration

  This just in: we won the Iraq War. And for the past eight years George W. Bush kept us safe.

• What Would Molly Think?

  Betsy Moon

  Molly Ivins would have loved the outcome of the November election. In a way, she saw it coming.

• The Defamation League

  Eric Alterman : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

  Abe Foxman and Bill Kristol gutlessly attack Bill Moyers and David Grossman.

• Gaza Agonistes

  Eric Alterman

  There's panic in the neocon playground as young liberal Jewish bloggers refuse to be silenced.

• Das Boot: The Unsinkable Warmonger

  Mark Ames : Afghanistan

  After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?

• Historians in Handcuffs

  Jeff Kisseloff : History

  The Bush administration has systematically blocked historians' access to government archives. Does Obama hold the key to set information free?

• Les Payne's Too-Quiet Departure

  Peter Eisner : Corporate Media & Consolidation

  A legendary African-American journalist is cast off by Newsday, and the profession is poorer for it.

• Ranters and Corantos

  Richard Byrne : History

  A Folger Library exhibit examines Renaissance journalism and the birth of newspapers.