The Legal War on Journalism
The Kicker12 Maalis 2025

The Legal War on Journalism

Over the past several months, Donald Trump has mounted a series of legal attacks against the media, including a libel case against ABC, an FCC investigation into CBS, and a lawsuit accusing an Iowa pollster (and the newspaper that publishes her) of “election interference.” The sometimes far-fetched claims in these cases notwithstanding, the maneuvers are having an effect. The parent company of ABC settled the libel case, over the objections of many news staffers, and CBS has turned over inter...

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Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

For the past few weeks, MAGA media and conservative podcasters have been torn apart over President Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga. Anna Merlan, a senior reporter at Mother Jones, joins T...

1 Elo 202524min

What’s the Matter with the BBC?

What’s the Matter with the BBC?

Recent weeks have not been very comfortable for the BBC. A documentary about Gaza it refused to broadcast was aired instead by a competitor, to critical acclaim. A livestream of the Glastonbury Festiv...

11 Heinä 202526min

The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up

The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up

Last year, Branko Brkic, the founder of the Daily Maverick, a South African news outlet, left his day job to launch an advocacy campaign in defense of journalism. Called Project Kontinuum, the organiz...

25 Kesä 202541min

The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza

The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza

For nearly twenty years, Arwa Damon worked as a journalist covering conflict zones across the Middle East—much of it as a prominent correspondent for CNN. But in 2015, amid the unending horrors of th...

24 Kesä 202524min

The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East

The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning Iraqi journalist for The Guardian and the author of A Stranger in Your Own City (2023), a reported memoir of his life as an architect turned journalist during the...

23 Kesä 202543min

What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?

What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?

David Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 reporting on how Donald Trump’s lifetime of charitable giving was largely a mirage. Nine years later, he’s still reporting on how Trumpworld’s cla...

17 Kesä 202524min

‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams

‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams

For more than thirty years, Phil Williams has been the steadying voice of investigative reporting at NewsChannel 5, in Nashville. His deep dives into toxic wastewater and lobbyist access to state poli...

29 Touko 202530min

‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media

‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media

Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of funding for NPR and PBS. It’s the latest attempt by conservatives to cut back on support for public media, and in particular ta...

9 Touko 202532min

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