‘Go. Leave. You Can’t Be Here’

Staff / Truthdig Nov 19, 2011 Neither Brookfield Properties nor the NYPD wants journalists asking questions about an unmarked truck that has been pointing a surveillance camera at protesters in Zuccotti Park for the past few weeks. So much so that a police officer declared journalist Nick Turse’s note-taking at the site to be illegal and ordered him to leave. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdig Wins Top Honors at L.A. Press Club Awards

Staff / Truthdig Jun 27, 2011 The Los Angeles Press Club held its 53rd annual Southern California Journalism Awards on Sunday night, and Truthdig emerged triumphant from the historic Millennium Biltmore hotel, taking home prizes for Best Website Exclusive to the Internet, Best Online Sports Writing and Online Journalist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Assange Ordered Out of Jail on Bail

Staff / Truthdig Dec 15, 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given a bit of a break on Tuesday when a British judge ordered that he be released from jail for the small bail fee of $310,000. However, this small measure of freedom comes with a few strings -- and an electronic monitor -- attached. Dig deeper ( 1 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 )

End of an Era for Lebanon’s Free Press

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 24, 2009 For decades, Lebanese journalism has been applauded as the freest, most outspoken and most literate in the heavily censored Arab world Alas, no more The Lebanese media are being hit – like the rest of the world – by the Internet and falling advertising revenues But this is Lebanon, where politics is always involved Is something rotten in the state of the Lebanese press? For decades, Lebanese journalism has been applauded as the freest, most outspoken and most literate in the heavily censored Arab world . Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2009 Josh Silver from FreePressnet joins us to discuss the Glenn Beck phenomenon, Obama's health care plan and our country's dependence on for-profit medianet on the Glenn Beck phenomenon and our country's dependence on for-profit media. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Newsroom Carnage Continues at The Washington Post

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2008 This just in: The Washington Post is the latest major newspaper to undergo the apparently inevitable newsroom downsizing process, clearing out 100 more journalists with a "blunt instrument," as former Post (and former New York Times) writer Sharon Waxman reports in her WaxWord blog. "The Washington Post as I know it has jumped the shark," Waxman laments. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Report: Corporate Propaganda Has Infiltrated TV News

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2006 An expose by the Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press caught 77 local stations passing off advertisements as legitimate news. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Propaganda? What Propaganda?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 13, 2005 "There is no U.S. footprint" is the proud boast of one of the Pentagon's propaganda contractors, and it prompts the questions: Why not? What are they ashamed of? One thing is that most of us in this democracy did not know we were paying for this vast official propaganda operation until we read it in Jeff Gerth's excellent investigative piece in The New York Times. A truly free press is our most valuable export, and its reputation should not be undermined by the Bushies' addiction to government propaganda. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )