American Journalism on the Brink


Local news outlets show the New York Times how to cover the growing pro-democracy movement.

The NYTimes leadership is still indifferent to democracy. Just look at its front page.

Our partner, the Media And Democracy Project, which organized the first virtual screening of Stripped for Parts last month, wrote a great article highlighting the discrepancies between local news coverage of the pro-democracy protests on April 5th and that of the New York Times.

“Big media by-and-large failed to communicate this momentous day — local news orgs covered it better, much better (as we document below)! Look at the reality of the video with your own eyes—compiled by the event organizers. The influential New York Times covered this momentous event of a 1+ million people taking to the streets to advocate for their futures and American democracy with a below-the-fold, no headline, wide-angle photo of a segment of a demonstration in North Carolina with text on page A18 on 4/6/25 (image below).”


Read the whole article here.

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