Tag: media bias
The Rise of Authoritarian Journalism in France
A period of media frenzy has revealed, and accelerated, a political shift: In the weeks since the Hamas massacres on October 7, France’s government and mainstream media have managed a double feat. They have expelled from the “republican arc” (the spectrum of the politically acceptable) the left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) and simultaneously admitted the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) to the fold. The RN, founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen as the Front National, was once deemed unworthy of … Read more
The Media, Disability, and Me
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December 14, 2023
Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning.
Over the past decade, I thought I had finally figured out how to earn a living as a disabled person. I work as a speaker, a consultant, and an activist, but writing
“The New Yorker” Goes All In on Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Sharon McMahon Has No Use for Rage-Baiting
The Instagram influencer’s workshop on abortion was not meant to persuade anyone. But by the end of the 2,000-person, five-hour Zoom history lesson, at least a few attendees were thinking differently about one of the most fraught topics in American politics. “I personally believe in the sacredness of life,” Shelley Smith, a conservative participant from California, told me afterward. But “something that was important for me to learn was [that] my personal beliefs shouldn’t trump someone else’s body autonomy.”