From Muckrakers to Corporate Media: The need for Indy Media today w/ Mickey Huff (G&R 486)

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolution of media from muckraking to corporate media, featuring insights from Mickey Huff on the importance of independent journalism today.

It’s the 50th anniversary of Project Censored, so we had another great discussion w/ its director Mickey Huff of Project about the history of muckraking and how it evolved into the corporate media we have today. We also discussed evolution of media in the Vietnam, Watergate eras and after toward a more complicit approach with government which has led us to the current moment of Trump’s threats and intimidation of the media. Finally , we talked about the importance of independent media and investigative journalism. Guest Bio// Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored (founded in 1976) and is the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Huff is the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media and Professor of Journalism at Ithaca College. He is also the executive producer and co-host of The Project Censored Show on KPFA, Pacifica Radio, in Berkeley CA, and airs on more than 50 stations around the US and is also a podcast online. ------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links 🌐 Project Censored: https://www.projectcensored.org/ 🌐 We Need ‘More Muckrakers and Fewer Buck-Takers’ (https://bit.ly/4c6JuK0) 💚 Support the…

People in this episode

Host: Green and Red

Guest: Mickey Huff

Topics covered

• independent media
• investigative journalism
• muckraking
• corporate media
• media evolution
• Trump
• media threats

Keywords

• Project Censored
• independent media
• muckraking
• corporate media
• investigative journalism
• Trump
• media threats

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Project Censored, Media Freedom Foundation

Places: Ithaca College, Berkeley CA

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