Media Industry News and Blog Posts

Al Jazeera has become one of the most widely recognized international news agencies. Though some perceive Al Jazeera to be state media controlled by Qatar, the situation is more nuanced.

Are journalists lacking ambition in a disordered news cycle? Or has the public’s degenerative attention span stopped allowing for continued interest in the world’s most momentous affairs? Here are five reasons why major stories fall out of the mainstream media’s view.

Right-rated outlets Fox News and Newsmax recently joined many Lean Left outlets in signing a letter protesting the Trump administration's ban of AP from the Oval Office. Their backing could be about journalistic principles, or business.

Here is how some of the members of the AllSides team reacted to Trump’s comments and the subsequent media commentary about the war.

Ahead of German elections, 60 Minutes aired a segment in which it accompanied German police on raids of those who have committed speech crimes. The feature bears striking resemblance to a 2022 report from The New York Times.

Under the second Trump administration, press rooms once made up of mostly liberal outlets are beginning to go the other way. Some changes at the Pentagon have ultimately resulted in the removal of several outlets from the left and the addition of ones from the right.

But after Trump’s second week in office, we are beginning to see the downsides of the old/new president’s unrelenting offensive. Just as his various audiences inevitably miss some of his most debatable and less popular ideas, they’re also going not going to notice some of the things that the White House wants them to see.

The New York Times published an opinion from a 17-year-old without any journalist experience who argued TikTok should be banned because it's too addictive. Meanwhile, authors at other left-wing publications have argued the ban has to do with pro-Palestinian speech, not teen health.

The Guardian claims it's “fiercely independent” and "without a billionaire bankrolling" it, yet it's owned by an endowment fund valued at $1.5 billion.

Brendan Carr promises to dismantle the tech and mainstream media cartels, and has even teased the idea of revoking NBC’s license. So as to eliminate wokeness, to compel free speech on tech platforms, and to do whatever else the president asks. Yet, does Carr have a point? Social media has deranged public discourse. Mainstream media has become a pale shadow of its former self: vanished revenue has forced it to push partisan division just to survive. Perhaps it should be dismantled. Or, regulated.