Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.

Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism

CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.

Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.

Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social Justice

Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was  whistled past by the press corps.