Media
White Women Need to Do Better: The Death of “My Favorite Murder”
It’s so important that we not only make sure to represent victims of color well, but also cease to promote or accept tone policing, respectability politics, and straight, white people serving up opinions that go unchecked.
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This Ombud’s For You: What the End of the NYT’s Public Editor Means
Right now seems like an especially weird time to get rid of a first-line advocate for media transparency.
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Behind The Scenes: Why Writers Publish With Bitch
Ever thought about why writer’s write for Bitch? Here’s a little story.
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Backtalk: May Day & Handmaid Horrors
Amy and Dahlia talk about May Day activism across the globe and the difficulties and opportunities in imagining work systems that work better. And they dig into The Handmaid’s Tale series, examining the novel’s grounding in anti-Blackness, as well as where the show diverges from the novel... Read more »
Clinton Derangement Syndrome: The Clicks That Keep on Giving
Why can’t we accept that women whom we believe are unlikable for “legitimate” reasons are also subjected to misogyny?
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Popaganda: Journalism in a "Post Truth" World
Media is the way we come to understand the world and what happens in it and what we as regular people can do to shape our societies. And this role, this reality, has been altered, in some pretty big and disturbing ways thanks to Trump. To help make sense of this new dystopian media landscape,... Read more »
Backtalk: Pepsi Fail & The Harasser Factor
Dahlia and Amy chat about bad Pepsi optics, capitalism, and cola. Pepsi’s latest ad stars Kendall Jenner, the most cheerful group of protestors, and a slew of asinine signs. Profiting off of grassroots and the slew of recent protests is a new low, even for a soda company whose sole job is to... Read more »
Heads Up, Media: Racism is Not a “Controversy”
Why are we seeing some of the most disturbing revelations of racism, xenophobia, and hate speech filed neatly away under the vague header of “controversy”?
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Soft Serve : The Media Normalization of Mike Pence
It’s one (terrible and ill-advised) thing to politely pretend that Pence’s tenure in Indiana wasn’t uniformly awful for anyone who wasn’t Mike Pence. It’s another to rewrite history.
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NBC and the Manufacturing of Donald Trump
The Apprentice groomed millions of future voters to believe that women and people of color are less competent than white men, who are natural leaders; business ethics are a joke; gratuitous offensiveness is admirable honesty; and Trump’s judgment matters more than anyone else’s.
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