Thomas Frank

The Slashing of the NY Daily News Staff Is A Reminder That We Need More Than Ever To Build Compelling Media. But It Must Be A Real Alternative Designed To CHANGE The NARRATIVE, By Telling OUR Stories.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 8:00pm

Big headline yesterday concerned the further the decimation of print news, "Tronc Fires Half the Staff of the New York Daily News in Latest Attack on Local Journalism." Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now said,

Where Is the Support in the Left Media for the #DNCFraudLawsuit? Say It Ain't So - Both Thomas Frank and TYT Panel Shirk From Standing With DNC Collusion and Fraud Issues. Where Are Our Allies?

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 8:01pm

With the #DNCFraudLawsuit Gaining Momentum, Where Are The Left Journalists Covering Electoral Fraud/Voter Suppression/DNC Collusion of The Rigged the Dem Primary?/Loads of Evidence of Documented Foul Play, Here's Just Some From New York and Chicago/If Elections Are the Foundation of Democracy, Then Where Are We As A Country When They're Proven To Be Corrupted?

As the political waters become murkier and murkier, in most every direction at the moment, it becomes more and more incumbent on us to be ever vigilant citizen watchdogs and journalists. We must watch closely those who we we're inclined to think of as allies.

Corporate Media Is The Poison/The Baffler: "#RIPMyShillaries: An end to the era of professionally explained candidates"

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Wed, 11/30/2016 - 12:02pm

Last night I went to a dentist appointment and they had the ubiquitous big flat screen tv which was tuned to CNN. If I had just entered a restaurant I probably would have walked out; if obliged to sit in a waiting room more often than not I ask if anyone is watching it, and either ask to switch it off or to change the channel. There was even a flat screen tv in the patient's room where I had my teeth cleaned.

"SWAT TEAM: The Media's extermination of Bernie Sanders" by Thomas Frank

Submitted by MarilynW on Sat, 10/29/2016 - 11:39pm

The November issue of Harper's has a shocking cover, illustrating Frank's article. Bernie Sanders is at a podium and there's a giant rolled up Washington Post newspaper hovering over him about to swat him. Thomas Frank was a Sanders voter. I'm sure most of you know him from his book "What's the matter with Kansas." His interviews are great too, a very witty man.

Thomas Frank plus the new Guccifer leaks

Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 12:02pm

Hope you all don't mind me dumping these two different issues in one essay, but caught them all this morning while busying around and thought they were worth sharing.

Here is Thomas Frank talking about his new book LISTEN, LIBERAL!

The subject of my new book is the Democratic Party’s failure over the last few decades to do anything really meaningful about income inequality.

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