We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

Go where there is silence and say something.

Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.