Media

On Iran, Disinformation Has Become the Norm

More than most countries in the Middle East and West Asia, international attention is gravitating toward Iran, which has become one of the crucial news hotspots of the world. Iran...

Afghan Media Is Collapsing

In a heavily guarded street in Kabul’s green zone near a bunch of Western embassies, a TV station was founded just a few years after the 2001 fall of the...

CDC Director’s Comment About Comorbidities Missed Full Context of Report

The CDC has often been accused of muddled and inconsistent messaging in recent months. In December, the CDC had to revise the percentage of cases in the country that were...

How the Media Got Russiagate Wrong

A GHOST is haunting American journalism—the specter of serial misreporting about events of major national import. In one instance after another, the media has over the past several decades not...

Report: Taliban’s War on Journalists Closes Half of Media Outlets

A survey of Afghan media outlets and journalists conducted by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) revealed that nearly half of Afghanistan’s independent media organizations had closed...

Biden’s Cronkite Moment: Is He Losing the American Public?

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Last week President Joe Biden had his own Cronkite moment for his handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. During the Tet Offensive in February 1968,...

The Polls Are Clear: Americans Didn’t Like Biden’s Afghanistan Pullout

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Presidents can’t dictate policy based on polls of course, but Biden has only doubled down in his opinion that he’s the smartest guy in the...

America Needs Better Information About Nuclear Weapons States

It has been over a year since candidate Joe Biden ran on a platform that emphasized diplomacy with key nuclear powers and called for a reassessment of the reliance on...

The American Public May Be Turning on Joe Biden

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Is Biden willing to admit he had his Cronkite moment? During the Tet Offensive in February 1968, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson seemed to realize that the Vietnam...

Wake Up: China Is Engaging in Media Warfare Against Taiwan

Can the People’s Republic of China (PRC) invade and conquer Taiwan? Experts differ, but the current debate considers only the military balance—and whether the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has the...

Unfair Obituaries and the Case of Colin Powell

A great American died this week, a victim of myeloma and Covid-19. Upon his death, he also became a victim of the journalistic tendency to highlight moments of controversy that...

U.S. Media Notes Kim ‘Stealing the Show’ at North Korean Parade

The media has been highly complimentary of Kim Jong-un’s appearance at the parade held earlier this week in North Korea, especially noting how great the North Korean leader looked. And...