Each month Brian and Milo bring you the Information War Report and other highlights from MAD's monthly member meetings. Be sure to engage with our list of actions you can take to uplift and defend journalism and democracy. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Summary
In this episode of the Information War Report, Brian and Milo discuss Bezos steering the Washington Post towards outright partisanship for the oligarch agenda, Gavin Newsom's platforming of extremists, Ruth Marcus' principled decision to leave the Washington Post, and plenty of actions we can all take to improve the quality of information around us. They emphasize the need for civic engagement, media literacy, and the defense of press freedom in the face of corporate influence and the constitutional crisis. The conversation also explores new terms and concepts relevant to the current political landscape like 'administrative coup' and 'competitive authoritarianism,' highlighting the responsibility of media outlets to provide accurate and fair reporting.
Should Be Front Page But Isn’t
Mainstream, corporate media fails at sufficiently informing the public because its main goal is not to inform the public, but rather to make money for its owners and shareholders while pushing self-serving narratives. These pressures leads to front pages that ignore important information. The damage-by-omission that profit-seeking newsrooms perpetrate has been made glaringly obvious over the past month as legacy media outlets fail to aggressively sound the alarm for the American public that we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis.
Every month we ask our attendees to vote on which under-covered stories were most deserving of front page emphasis. This month’s nominees are:
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