Media

Skin Product Company Offers Journalists Cash for Favorable Coverage

Staff / Truthdig May 10, 2011 The scholarly sounding American Institute of Advanced Medicine is circulating a letter that asks newspaper editors to publish a promotional press release in exchange for $100 for every new customer the "editorial" ad creates. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Faked It for the Cameras

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2011 There was just one camera in the room with President Obama when he announced the death of Osama bin Laden -- the one beaming his address to television. Afterward, a group of still photographers was let in and the president went through the motions, walking to the podium and pretending to speechify for 30 seconds. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdig Wins 2011 Webby for Best Political Blog

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 Once again, Truthdig has won the Webby Award, the juried version, in the "Blog -- Political" category for the second year in a row The competition consisted of four widely read sites on top of their game: "Close Read" on The New Yorker, Comedy Central's Indecision (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Al-Jazeera: ‘Return Our Journalist’

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2011 Al-Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz, 39, has gone missing after landing in Damascus on Friday to cover the events in Syria, the news agency says. Dozens of journalists are reported to have been detained by the Syrian government since the uprisings began in mid-March. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pulitzer Source Says New York Times Didn’t Submit WikiLeaks Reporting

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2011 Forbes reports that The New York Times didn't win for WikiLeaks stories because it didn't enter them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.K. Courts to Journalists: Stow It

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2011 Parliamentary official John Hemming has drawn attention to a new type of court order forbidding members of Britain's fourth estate to cover cases deemed too sensitive for public consideration The order, known as a super-injunction (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News to Drop Glenn Beck’s Show

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2011 Although Glenn Beck himself is characterizing the change as a "new phase" of his "partnership" with Roger Ailes' conservative-magnet cable channel, the bottom line of this story is that Beck's show will be phased out of the Fox News programming lineup later this year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

From Jefferson to Assange

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 8, 2010 It is outrageous for any journalist, or respecter of what every American president has claimed is our inalienable, God-given right to a free press, not to join in Assange’s defense . Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Nov 4, 2010 As the 2010 elections come to a close, the biggest winner of all remains undeclared: the broadcasters. The biggest loser: democracy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Too Much Fox-Flavored Kool-Aid for Juan Williams

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig Oct 22, 2010 Juan Williams is living evidence that watching too much Fox News will rot your brain. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The State of Our Interracial Unions

Marcia Alesan Dawkins / Truthdig Aug 28, 2010 Though Dr Laura’s comments are definitely offensive, what’s more offensive is that she really isn’t saying anything new Throughout our nation’s long history of racial mixing, mainstream culture has regarded interracial relationships as abnormal . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Riding the Milky Way in Tucson

Deanne Stillman / Truthdig Aug 27, 2010 A couple of days after I arrived in Tucson, there came a party invitation The public was invited to the top of Mount Lemmon for a viewing of the annual Perseid showers, a breathtaking display of shooting stars While I generally brake for sand, I also hit the road for star parties. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )