media

Published
March 11, 2023

Commentary: Private texts confirm it – Fox isn’t a news network

The communications that went public add further proof that the right-wing media network is nothing more than a hypocritical grift.
Published
February 8, 2023

Maine Voices: What constitutes news depends on where you get the news

I decided to take media analysis into my own hands and was discouraged by what I found.
Published
January 25, 2023

Victor Navasky, historian and Nation editor, dies at 90

He presided for years over the liberal weekly The Nation and wrote influential books on the anti-Communist blacklist and Robert F. Kennedy’s justice department.
Published
January 5, 2023

Maine Voices: As the West shrugs, the world’s first Christians are being starved, ethnically cleansed

The U.S. and the EU must take a stronger stance on Azerbaijan’s brutal blockade of 120,000 civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh, or else the second Armenian Genocide is on our doorstep.
Published
December 18, 2022

Maine Voices: Make America bored again, please

The madness of year-round politicking deprives us of the important ability to focus on the everyday stuff.
Published
September 18, 2022

Commentary: A history of the ‘Big Lie,’ from Plato to TikTok

The development and circulation of great national myths has been going on for centuries.
Published
September 10, 2022

Commentary: Let’s break our terrible habit of both-sidesing things

Find out what’s true and what’s not, present the former and condemn the latter when necessary. It’s that simple.
Published
August 7, 2022

Our View: Mega-mergers can be nightmarish. Just ask Stephen King.

When power becomes consolidated in fewer and fewer hands, the market gets skewed, and workers and consumers ultimately suffer.
Published
August 7, 2022

Maine Voices: What if the balance demanded by the Fairness Doctrine could exist today?

A frequently chaotic and polarizing media landscape could benefit from an updated version of the broadcasting rule.
Published
August 3, 2022

Bill Donovan, journalist who covered Navajo Nation for five decades, dies at 76

His knowledge of the Navajo people, history and tribal government was encyclopedic, said Tom Arviso, former publisher of the Navajo Times.