President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 20, 2018. Standing with Trump are Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP
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The Best of Frenemies: The Trump-Media Logrolling

Trump and the establishment media log roll with each other. The major media built up Trump. Trump’s attacks effectively elevate a select few media celebrities.

by Sam Husseini

Finnish Newspaper Greets Trump and Putin With Billboards Defending ‘Free Press’

With protesters in the streets of Helsinki, U.S. and Russian presidents get cold and critical greeting in nation’s capital city.

Finnish Newspaper Greets Trump and Putin With Billboards Defending ‘Free Press’

Like every other place the U.S. president has traveled in Europe over the last week, large protests also took place in the Finnish capitol of Helsinki on Sunday—a day ahead of a highly anticipated and much-hyped meeting with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin. Both leaders were also greeted with a large billboard advertisement

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Why The Saudis And Their Allies Want To Shutter Al-Jazeera

Professor Philip Seib on how Al-Jazeera has been an ire for Middle Eastern rulers, who prefer to control the news that reaches their citizens.

Why The Saudis And Their Allies Want To Shutter Al-Jazeera

(Opinion) -- On June 5 four Arab states - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt - declared a soft war on Qatar. They had a long list of demands, ordering Qatar to

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Exploring The Top Censored Stories Of 2016 With Project Censored’s Mickey Huff

As public trust in the mainstream media plummets amid widespread censorship and propaganda, media literacy expert Mickey Huff joins Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline’ to shed light on the year’s top censored stories.

Exploring The Top Censored Stories Of 2016 With Project Censored’s Mickey Huff

MINNEAPOLIS --- Censorship, a tool often wielded by despots, is also a pastime of democratic governments and their corporate media lapdogs. Whether journalists are operating as part of a free press or as the puppets of a repressive government, the goal is the same: control public perceptions by carefully bending information to suit a particular

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Mnar Muhawesh

Mnar Muhawesh

Mnar Muhawesh is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News, and is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, neoconservativism within the media and journalism start-ups. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Muhawesh also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Muhawesh is also a wife and mother of a rascal four year old boy, juggling her duties as a CEO and motherly tasks successfully as supermom. Contact Mnar at mnar@mintpressnews.com. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh

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Critics: Comcast And Charter Deal A Dupe

Transforming cable industry’s “three giants into two behemoths” should be no comfort to consumers or regulators, says Free Press.

Comcast, the cable and internet service giant, is attempting to smooth the road for its mega-merger acquisition of Time-Warner Cable by selling off some its services and assets to the nation's third-largest cable provider, Charter. But critics of Monday's announced deal say neither consumers nor regulators should be fooled by the scheme that

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