In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the declining relevance of “legacy” media and the essential work of a truly independent press. They also discuss media censorship and propaganda around Israel and Hamas and what appears to be an unfolding genocide Gaza, as well as the coming 16th Annual Izzy Awards at the Park Center (named after the late great muckraking reporter, I.F. Stone), which honors the best independent journalism in the public interest.

Then, Mickey and Eleanor deconstruct how establishment media are slanting Gaza coverage in Israel’s favor, including at the New York Times, which has gone so far as to control language and censor their own journalists, while demonizing those who offer counter-narratives based on transparently sourced factual reports from the region.

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Raza Rumi is Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College in upstate New York and has held a variety of other academic appointments in his career, including at Cornell University and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

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