The backlash against Marc Lamont Hill for his support of the Palestinian liberation movement is an attempt to limit the boundaries of “revolutionary desire.”
In solidarity with the Boston Globe and hundreds of media outlets across the country, we at NPQ express our dismay at the dangerous slandering of the press coming from the White House and remind ourselves and others of the media’s essential role, even if not always fully realized, in building an engaged civil society and an active democracy.
The Boston Globe has invited other news organizations to join them in expressing to their own communities in their own ways how important the free press is to democracy and to protest the constant attacks against it from this presidency.
The publisher of the New York Times is pilloried as a representative of responsible journalism on the carnival ride of a dangerous and erratic, but now increasingly predictable, presidential tweet storm.
A federal judge in California ordered a paragraph removed from a Los Angeles Times news story last Saturday, unleashing major concerns regarding erosion of press freedoms and judicial overreach. The paper will challenge this order in Court tomorrow.
Disney quickly walks back its decision to keep L.A. Times critics from attending film premieres based on a disagreement with its reporting.
Criticism plays a critical role in the public discourse required of a democracy. We should all be paying attention to Trump’s, and our own, attempts to squelch it.
The “beating heart” of a dynamic democracy is embedded in our rights to free association, free speech, and a free press. We need all three—plus the courts—to make it all work.
In three events, President Trump’s first weekend in office looked like a continuation of the campaign, not a transition. Much of the weekend was spent in size comparisons: Obama’s two inaugural crowds, the women’s march, and the new president’s inauguration.
There are a lot of interesting aspects to this small explosive story. What is a “social commerce team,” anyway?
