How Media Lens forged a path for independent journalism

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We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media is broken, cannot be trusted, and is far more likely to disseminate falsehood than tell the truth. So it is only fair to wish a happy 25th birthday to the earliest of these dissident outlets – Media Lens. Media Lens first published in July 2001. The timing was perfect, with George W Bush starting to mobilise ahead of the Iraq…

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Why The Economist hates wealth taxes

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This is an AI-written (but human-edited) summary of Gary’s recent video: Why The Economist Hates Wealth Taxes Wealth taxes are on the cover of The Economist this week. Zack Polanski and Zohran Mamdani are pictured. The magazine is against them. We’ve read it so you don’t have to. What The Economist Says The Economist runs two articles on wealth taxes and barely bothers to argue against them. The substantive objections amount to two sentences: wealth taxes would be “confiscatory,” and “seizing the assets of society’s most productive people is a road to economic ruin.” Gary takes each apart in turn. Every…

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