The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack released its 845-page final report on Dec. 22, 2022, Claire Leavitt writes.
“Every person in Mississippi has the right to know how our legislative public servants are making decisions and why,” Donna Ladd writes.
“Free Press journalism is here, it is statewide, it is stronger, more trusted and more determined than ever,” Donna Ladd writes.
“We believe every Mississippian deserves access to a free and fair press regardless of their economic circumstance,” Kimberly Griffin writes.
Duvalier Malone believes democracy is at stake due to voter-suppression efforts and suggests that the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act should pass to rightly protect the voting rights of U.S. citizens.
“Kimberly and I have assembled a team at the Mississippi Free Press who aren’t easily fooled, who believe in difficult proactive reporting, and who report causes and then solutions,” Donna Ladd writes. “Our team is not lured by the two-way horserace model that lets so much vital reporting slip through the cracks and helps ingrain the kinds of public and media ignorance that led us to this moment. We don’t bow to politicians or parties of any stripe, and we work to anticipate the story, not scramble to catch up later.
As someone told me last week in Los Angeles: ‘The MFP model must spread.'”
“I suspect Elon Musk’s desire in buying Twitter goes beyond a desire to control and shape public discourse, ” Media scholar Nolan Higdon writes. “Today’s equivalent of the Gilded Age oligarchs—the handful of super-rich Americans gobbling up increasing chunks of the media landscape—will have that, but they will also have access to a trove of personal data of users and news consumers.”
Working Together Jackson, a nonpartisan organization, responds to the garbage-disposal debate by asking city leaders to immediately approve the contract with Richard’s Disposal.
People are losing faith in democracy throughout the Western Hemisphere. Support for democracy has declined by almost 10 percentage points since 2004. The 2021 round of AmericasBarometer offers important insights into what’s driving declining support for democracy in the region.
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