VIDEO: How Profit Motive Distorts The News

And why liberals and Democrats should talk about it

A few readers have asked me to elaborate on the connection between Decoding the News and the rest of Off Message content. What’s a video series about media criticism (and really about, snooze, media literacy) got to do with a project that’s otherwise about fostering internal liberal critique, and dispelling the notion that vigorous debate betrays the ho…