RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:
-"Big Fat Bribe": Colbert's Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Merger (Democracy Now!, 7/23/25)
-Colbert's Cancellation Is a Win for Trump - and the Corporate Assault on Dissent (7/19/25)
-Bill Moyers' Legacy (Project Censored interview, 7/14/25)
-Mamdani, Democrats and Media (with Norman Solomon & Janine Jackson on CounterSpin, 7/11/25)
-Zohran Mamdani & the Future of the Democratic Party (C-SPAN, 6/28/25)
-Media Corruption, Smears and Misleading IDs (5/29/25)
-Robert W. McChesney, a Scholar/Activist Who Fought for Media Democracy (3/27/25)
-Journalism's Battle with Trump Chaos (Interview, 2/22/25)
-State of the Media 2024 (Interview, 10/19/24)
-Is Netanyahu's goal to drag the US into war with Iran? (Interview, 10/13/24)
-Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him (Democracy Now!, 8/20/24)
— Prof. Cohen's 2017 Indy Media Course Blog —
Media critic Jeff Cohen was founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an associate professor of journalism. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist group RootsAction.org in 2011. Cohen has coproduced documentary movies, including "The Corporate Coup D'Etat" and "All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone." He is the author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. He has been a TV commentator at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and was senior producer of MSNBC's Phil Donahue primetime show until it was terminated three weeks before the Iraq invasion. His columns have been published online at such websites as Salon.com, HuffPost, CommonDreams and Truthout--and in dozens of dailies, including USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution and Miami Herald.
ORDER NOW Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media
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WATCH "Information Wars" on corporate media (from Jackson Browne's album Looking East)
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