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    11 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News VERY SMALL DONORS ARE RALLYING FOR RSN — Unsurprisingly when we are in trouble the small donors are the first to respond. It’s always a positive sign that we are starting to break through. It’s not much money yet but it’s a start. Who can join in? Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: Arwa Mahdawi | New 'Objective' CNN Appears to Be Making Itself Objectively Rightwing Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian UK Mahdawi writes: "CNN wants to be the new Fox News and it's not even trying to hide it." The cable network’s CEO dramatic hiring and firing of on-air talent seems designed to woo the Fox News crowd C NN has a very odd definition of ‘objectivity’ CNN wants to be the new Fox News and it’s not even trying to hide it. Earlier this year Chris Licht became the new CEO of the cable network and immediately made it clear that he was going to change the network’s direction. ...

  What must we expect of journalism in this crisis? To tell America the unvarnished truth Robert Reich Sep 3 Biden’s core message Thursday night was clear. American democracy is under attack. But Friday’s media coverage of the speech was just more he-said/she-said reaction — as if the media were covering a typical political race instead of a contest between democracy and authoritarianism. The New York Times  quoted Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy as claiming Democrats are the ones “dismantling Americans’ democracy.” The  Times  failed to point out that McCarthy’s claim is inaccurate, and that McCarthy himself was one of 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election even after the attack on the Capitol. The same article quoted Ronna McDaniel , the chair of the Republican National Committee, as calling Biden “the divider in chief” and accusing him of exhibiting “disgust and hostility towards half the country.”...

  September 2, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 3 Just a week ago, a judge ordered the release of the affidavit on which the FBI applied for a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. That document revealed that Trump had taken highly classified documents from the government and held them in insecure locations. That document was horrifying, but it referred only to documents the government had already recovered, not the ones for which it would go on to search for on August 8. Today the unsealing of a court filing revealed that the August 8 search turned up more than 11,000 documents or photographs that were not classified, 31 documents marked CONFIDENTIAL, 54 marked SECRET, and 18 marked TOP SECRET. In addition, agents found 48 empty folders marked CLASSIFIED, and 42 empty folders marked to be returned to a military aide. Those documents were not filed with the envelopes. This story is unprecedented and explosive. As Sue Gordon, who was principal deputy director of national intelligence from 2...