The media—stenographers to power.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

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

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

Go where there is silence and say something.

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

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