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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. The news about the news has been terrible over the last year: CBS News taken over by Bari Weiss; Jeff Bezos pushing The Washington Post opinion section to the right; CNN, The New York Times, and other outlets often choosing to downplay the radicalism of President Trump so they can portray themselves as neutral and objective; numerous local and national outlets laying off reporters. But The Guardian US is the rare positive news media story. The London-based paper is vastly expanding its audience and staff size in the United States. It’s covering Trump honestly and directly. Steve Sachs, managing director of The Guardian US, explains the paper’s strategy in the latest edition of Right Now. The paper’s core journalism is global, independent, and free, and he argues all three are essential.

It doesn’t pay to be a media company in the age of Trump.

Kit Klarenberg On June 15th, two young Ukrainians were found guilty of conspiring to carry out arson attacks on two homes and a vehicle intimately connected to former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Curious details of the trial unreported in the mainstream, and a post-conviction propaganda blitz led by the BBC blaming Russian intelligence actors for directing the […]

The head of the country’s military, who is also the son of the current president, said he did not “believe in ‌a free press.”

The company wants to spin-off NBCUniversal, leaving Comcast as a broadband and wireless company.

The New York Times published a blockbuster story on Kazakhstan, public money, and the U.S. president's sons. Meanwhile in DC, an aging Trump rambled about algae and golf.

Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab?