political media 
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SOURCE: NPR
2/13/2023
Evidence of Political Pressure in Firing of West Va. Radio Reporter
Insiders claim a growing pattern of political pressure from the office of Governor Jim Justice to use the threat of defunding to defang public radio coverage of state affairs.
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SOURCE: New Statesman
6/30/2022
Seeing Through America's "Crisis Industrial Complex"
by Nikhil Pal Singh
While the elite media class indulges in lurid fantasies of an armed breakup of the nation, those who live precarious or impoverished lives find themselves already enmeshed in a civil war; the real red/blue conflict is about who will control the infrastructure of repression built up over the last half century.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/29/2021
The Secret to Success for Biden’s First 100 Days
by Amber Roessner
Since Franklin Roosevelt, new presidents have been measured by the standard of the "First 100 Days." As a result, they've learned to aggressively manage the media and in turn received blowback from the press corps. The presidential "honeymoon" period is a thing of the past.
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SOURCE: Vice News and Retro Report
10/14/2020
Enemies of the People: Donald Trump and the Political Press
A Vice News and Retro Report collaboration on the media coverage of the 2016 campaign asks what responsibility the news media bears for the election result.
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