Powerful Exhibits on Both Coasts Explore Borders and the Plight of Refugees

Liesl Bradner / Truthdig Jun 2, 2016 Artists at galleries in Los Angeles and New York zoom in on some of the world’s 60,000 displaced people—and one “solution” for dealing with them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Flack for Wal-Mart Poses as Journalist to Infiltrate Union Event

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 16, 2012 Working as a flack for a public relations company representing Wal-Mart, Stephanie Harnett committed one of the big no-nos of journalism by falsely identifying herself as a reporter. Using a phony name, she claimed to be a student journalist in order to infiltrate a union press conference earlier this month. This week Harnett left the PR company, Mercury Public Affairs. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Comes the Revolution

Richard Reeves / Truthdig Feb 17, 2012 Andrew Breitbart, the publisher of Breitbart.com and a couple of other popular websites, set the tone for a program at the University of Southern California last Wednesday by calling George Stephanopoulus of ABC News a little rat with a runny nose. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Future of Journalism Is Written in Neon

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Apr 13, 2010 The salvation of journalism rests with young people who are talented, ambitious, intelligent, obsessive and crazy enough to jump into what is rapidly becoming a low-paying, insecure business. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Hollywood’s Woman Problem

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2010 It's Oscar night, but that should not cause us to ignore the results of a recently released study of the 100 top-grossing films of 2007 showing that men filled almost all the directing jobs, with women accounting for only about 3 percent. Writing and producing find similarly problematic, but less pronounced, gender gaps. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Morning Review’: Prop. 8 and the Big 3

Staff / Truthdig Nov 21, 2008 Check out the most recent "Morning Review Friday with Roy Ulrich," where UC Irvine Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses Proposition 8's current legal status, and Truthdig's own Titus Levi engages in a fruitful debate on the virtues and pitfalls of a bailout of the auto industry in Detroit with the Cato Institute's Dan Ikenson. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Communication Scholars Speak Out About Negative Campaigning

Staff / Truthdig Oct 24, 2008 A group of top American communication professors have crafted and signed a statement calling on the McCain campaign, primarily, to stop its negative campaigning. "The purposeful dissemination of messages that a communicator knows to be false and inflammatory is unethical. It is that simple," the statement says. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Fact-Checking McCain’s ‘Ayers’ Commercial

Staff / Truthdig Oct 12, 2008 In this time of confusion and strife, it's a good thing there's FactCheck.org to shine a light through the political fog that surrounds us all. Or something like that. Anyway, the FactCheck folks took a close look at the McCain campaign's shadowy little commercial number, "Ayers," and found it to be problematic on several counts. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Edwin O. Guthman

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2008 Truthdig tips its hat this week to Edwin O. Guthman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, World War II veteran, professor and former press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy. Guthman, who died Aug. 31, was a true class act, a mentor to many and, as the Los Angeles Times noted, a top-notch editor who earned the No. 3 spot on President Richard Nixon's enemies list for what the Times called his "aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories." Updated Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The End of an Institution

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Aug 29, 2008 I suppose I should be sad to watch the decline of the once mighty political media, an institution that trained and nurtured me. But that's not how I feel. For this was the institution that cheered when President Bush took us to war. This is also the institution that is getting this Democratic National Convention wrong, obsessed with a phony feud between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, wasting time interviewing that small but vengeful cult, the die-hard Hillaryites. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg Talk Compromises and Surprises

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2007 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Antonio Villaraigosa (pictured above with USC Annenberg's Dean Geoffrey Cowan) convened at Creative Artists Agency's swank new Beverly Hills HQ Tuesday for a conference on bipartisan politics, and this perhaps scripted meeting of high-wattage minds (and personalities) produced some thought-provoking -- and surprising -- conversations and announcements. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )