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- Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas. 2025. Trump moves to close down Voice of America. March 17, BBC.com.
- Ben Casselman and Colby Smith. 2025. Commerce secretary’s comments raise fears of interference in federal data. March 5, New York Times. (pdf)
- James Gertzenzang. 2025. I’ve seen presidents clash with the press. This is different. February 22, New York Times. (pdf)
- Andrew Trunsky. 2025. She’s young, Trump-friendly, and has a White House Press pass. April 11, New York Times. (pdf)
- Maria Dunbar. 2025. Multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented,’ says PEN America. February 7, The Guardian.
- Michael Grynbaum. 2025. White House moves to pick the pool reporters who cover Trump. February 25, New York Times. (pdf)
- Andrew Duehren. 2025. The size of the tax cut. March 21, New York Times. (pdf)
- Greg Sergeant and Paul Waldman. 2023. Ron DeSantis’s book ban mania targets Jodi Picoult–and she hits back. Mar 10, Washington Post.
- Elizabeth Harris and Alexandra Alter. 2022. A fast-growing network of conservative groups is fueling a surge in book bans. Dec 12, New York Times.
- Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman. 2020. Used to meeting challenges with bluster and force, Trump confronts a crisis unlike any before. March 21, New York Times.
- Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng. 2020. Team Trump pushes CDC to dial down COVID death counts. May 13, Daily Beast.
- Helen Sullivan. 2020. Donald Trump attacks Fox News: ‘They forgot the golden goose.’ Nov 12, The Guardian.
- Gregory Wallace. 2018. National Park Service edited inauguration photos after Trump, Spicer calls. Sept 7, CNN.
- Jonathan Allen, Phil McCausland and Cyrus Farivar. 2020. Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities. May 11, NBCNews.com.
- New York Times. 2020. Tracking viral misinformation about the 2020 elections. New York Times.
- Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Trump officials are said to press spies to link virus and Wuhan labs. Apr 30, New York Times.
- Quint Forgey. 2020. Strategic national stockpile figures altered online after Kushner’s remarks. Apr 3, Politico.com.
- Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond and Betsy Klein. 2020. Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation. Apr 22, CNN.com.
- Alex Hern. 2020. Trump’s vote fraud claims go viral despite social media curbs. Nov 10, The Guardian.
- Linda Qiu. 2020. Analyzing the patterns in Trump’s falsehoods about the coronavirus. Mar 27, New York Times.
- Sheila Kaplan. 2018. Congress quashed research into gun violence. Since then, 600,000 people have been shot. Mar 12, New York Times.
- New York Times Editorial Board. 2018. The war on truth spreads. Dec 9, New York Times.
- Veronica Stacqualursi. 2020. Washington Post: National Archives admits to altering 2017 photo of Women’s March. Jan 18, cnn.com.
- Margaret Talev. 2019. Trump cancels US report on civilian deaths in drone strikes. March 6, Bloomberg.
- Ali Watkins. 2015. The other torture report: The secret CIA document that could unravel the case for torture. Jan 23, Huffington Post.
- Susan Glasser. 2019. The ‘enemies of the people’ have a few questions for the president. March 8, New Yorker Magazine.
- Andrew Marantz. 2017. Is Trump trolling the White House Press Corps? March 13, New Yorker Magazine.
- Juliet Eilperin. 2017. Under Trump, inconvenient data is being sidelined. May 14, Washington Post.
- Jane Mayer. 2019. The making of the Fox News White House. March 11, New Yorker Magazine.
- Susan B. Glasser. 2018. ‘Rigged witch hunt,’ meet Trump’s ‘red wave.’ Aug 17, New Yorker Magazine.
- Asawin Suebsaeng. 2019. Trump is forcing interns to sign NDAs and threatening them with financial ruin. Feb 19, Daily Beast.
- Julie Hirschfield Davis and Somini Sengupta. 2017. Trump Administration rejects study showing positive impact of refugees. Sept 18, New York Times.
- Scott Horton. 2010. Tear down this myth: Six questions for Will Bunch. Feb 19, Harper’s.
- Anton Troianovsky. 2018. A former Russian troll speaks: ‘It was like being in Orwell’s world.’ Feb 18, Washington Post. Accessed: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/48533-a-former-russian-troll-speaks-it-was-like-being-in-orwells-world.
- Chris Mooney and Juliet Eilperin. 2017. EPA website removes climate science from public view after two decades. Apr 29, Washington Post.
- Aaron Blake. 2017. The White House’s odd statement about giving U.S. intelligence to Putin. Dec 18, Washington Post.
- Washington Post. 2017. The Fact Checker’s tally of Trump’s false claims since becoming president. June 5, Washington Post.
- Andrew Higgins. 2017. Trump embraces ‘enemy of the people,’ a phrase with a fraught history. Feb 26, NY Times.
- Dan Froomkin. 2014. White House getting cold feet over exposing CIA’s torture secrets. Dec 5, The Intercept.
- Ben Casselman. 2017. The White House takes its attacks on jobs data to a new (and dangerous) level. Mar 13, Fivethirtyeight.com.
- Ben Casselman, Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Maggie Koerth-Baker. 2017. Is Trump already messing with government data? Feb 24, Fivethirtyeight.com.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2015. NYT trumpets US restraint against ISIS, ignores hundreds of civilian deaths. May 26, The Intercept.
- Jean Seaton, Tim Crook and DJ Taylor. 2017. Welcome to dystopia: George Orwell experts on Donald Trump. Jan 25, The Guardian.
- Danielle Kurtzleben. 2017. With ‘fake news,’ Trump moves from alternative facts to alternative language. Feb 17, npr.org.
- Samuel Earle. 2016. Unreality politics. Dec 7, Open Democracy.
- Campbell Robertson and Mitch Smith. 2017. ‘What’s the big deal?‘ ask Trump voters on Russian hacking report. Jan 7, New York Times.
- Sam Kleiner. 2014. The Obama Administration just got busted over excessive secrecy–again. Apr 23, New Republic.
- Rhett Jones. 2017. Trump’s bullshit executive orders become even more bullshit on White House website. Feb 14, Gizmodo.
- Gabriella Coleman. 2011. Anonymous: From the Lulz to collective action. Apr 6, The New Everyday.
- Justin Doolittle. 2014. The New York Times calls torture ‘torture’ when the perp is an official enemy. Jan 30, Truthout.
- Dennis Halliday. 2013. WHO refuses to publish report on cancers and birth defects in Iraq caused by depleted uranium ammunition. Sept 13, Global Research.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2012. “Militants”: Media propaganda. May 28, Salon.com.
- Lou Dubose. 2012. Occupy: The movie. Feb 14, Washington Spectator.
- Husna Haq. 2013. Obama Administration targets Fox News reporter in ‘chilling’ echo of AP probe. May 20, Christian Science Monitor.
- Chris Woods. 2011. US claims of ‘no civilian deaths’ are untrue. July 28, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
- David Barstow. 2008. The generals’ revolt: How the Pentagon spread its message (interactive version). Apr 20, NY Times.
- Liliana Segura. 2008. Private military contractors writing the news? The Pentagon’s propaganda at its worst. Oct 17, Alternet.
- Sarah Ellison. 2011. The man who spilled the secrets. February, Vanity Fair.
- Bill Keller. 2011. Dealing with Assange and the WikiLeaks secrets. January, New York Magazine.
- Phillip Dorling. 2012. Revealed: US plans to charge Assange. Feb 29, Sidney Morning Herald.
- Kevin Bogardus and Rebecca Brown. 2008. Cheney gets last laugh. June 19, The Hill.
- David Barstow. 2008. Behind TV analysts, Pentagon’s hidden hand. Apr 20, New York Times.
- Charles Homans. 2008. Last secrets of the Bush Administration. Dec 3, Washington Monthly.
- Michelle Chen. 2008. Cheney’s office declares exemption from secrecy oversight. Jun 7, TheNewStandard.
- Bill Moyers. 2008. Is the fourth estate a fifth column? Jul 11, In These Times.
- James Bamford. 2008. The shadow factory. Oct 14, Democracy Now!
- Warren Strobel. 2008. Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaeda. McClatchy Newspapers, Mar 10.
- Nick Davies. 2008. How the spooks took over the news. The Independent, Feb 11.
- Associated Press. 2007. Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties. Aug. 24. MSNBC.com.
- William Fisher. 2007. Executive privilege used to expand government secrecy. Jul 31, Truthout.
- Dan Eggan. 2006. White House trains efforts on media leaks. March 5, Washington Post.
- Stephen C. Webster. 2012. ‘Anonymous’ intercepts secret law enforcement hacking probe. Feb 3, Raw Story.
- Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen. 2008. White House said it routinely overwrote email tapes from 2001-2003. Jan 17, Washington Post.
- Jane Mayer. 2011. The secret sharer. May 23, New Yorker Magazine.
- Media Lens. Media ignore credible poll revealing 1.2 million violent deaths in Iraq. Sept 18, Media Lens.
- David Gritten. 2006. Iraqi civilian deaths shrouded in secrecy. Mar 22, BBC News.
- Mark Silva. 2006. Bush team imposes thick veil of secrecy. April 30, Chicago Tribune.
- Richard Willing. 2006. Tax dollars fund study on restricting public data. USA Today, July 5.
- Gina Holland. 2006. Supreme Court restricts whistleblower lawsuits. Associated Press, April 10, USA Today.
- Nancy Chandross. 2007. Woodruff: turning personal injury into public inquiry. ABC News, Feb 26. (more context here).
- Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. 2003. How Bush’s campaign for war was a victory for spin. San Francisco Chronicle, July 27.
- Media Lens. 2005. Burying the Lancet (part 1; part 2). Sept 5-6, Media Lens.
- Christopher Lee. 2005. Prepackaged news gets GAO rebuke. Washington Post, Feb. 21.
- Amanda Griscom Little. 2004. Just Put Your Lips Together: Bush admin tries to take the whistle away from potential blowers at the EPA. The Daily Grist, Oct 8.
- Henry Waxman. 2006. Bush Administration Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Advertising and Public Relations Contracts Since 2003, GAO Finds Feb 13, Common Dreams.
- Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound. 2003. Scathing new report on White House secrecy. Dec 12, US News and World Report.
- Jon Whiten. 2006. Subverting, not preserving democracy. July/Aug, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
- U.S. House Judiciary Committee (Democratic Staff). 2005. Preserving democracy: What went wrong in Ohio.
- James Risen . 2006. National security whistleblowers allege retaliation. Feb 15, Sacramento Bee.
- Nick Turse. 2005. Fallen legion: The casualties of the Bush Administration. TomDispatch.com.
- Nick Turse. 2005. Bush’s burgeoning body count: Fallen legion 2. Nov 25, TomDispatch.com.
- Nick Turse. 2006. The bureaucracy strikes back: Fallen legions 3. Feb 12, TomDispatch.com.
- Rory O’Connor and William Scott Malone. 2006. The 9-11 story that got away. May 18, Alternet.
- Agence France Press. 2006. U.S. propaganda aimed at foreigners reaches public: Pentagon Document. Jan 27.
- William Fisher. 2004. Activists crawl through web to untangle US secrecy. Nov 29, Inter Press Services.
- Bob Fitrakas. 2004. Diebold, electronic voting, and the vast right-wing conspiracy. Feb 25, Free Press.
- Christopher Lee. 2005. Administration rejects rules on PR videos. Washington Post, Mar 15.
- David Axe. 2006. Editor who ran afoul of military in Iraq reflects on his experiences. Feb 27, Editor & Publisher.
- Nicholas J.S. Davies. 2006. Burying the lancet report. Feb, Z Magazine.
- Scott Shane. 2005. Increase in the number of documents classified by the government. July 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305B.shtml.
- Gayle MacDonald. 2001. Media fears censorhip as Bush requests caution. Oct 11, Toronto Globa and Mail. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1011-02.htm
- Patrick J. Sloyan. 2003. How the Mass Slaughter of a Group of Iraqis Went Unreported. Feb 14, The Guardian UK. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/1/47/printer
- Michael Messing. 2004. Iraq, the press, and the elections. Dec 16, New York Review of Books. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_04/120904J.shtml.
- Mark Lewellyn-Biddle. 2004. Voting machines gone wild. Jan, Third World Traveler. Online at www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Election_Reform/Voting_Machines_Wild.html.
- Gary Kamiya. 2005. Iraq: The unseen war. Aug 23, Salon.com. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082305O.shtml
- Dahr Jamail. 2005. Censorship. Jun 23, Iraq Dispatches. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/12135
- Christopher Brauchli. 2004. Protecting the president from dissent. Daily Camera, Aug 30. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0830-09.htm
- Dana Priest. 2004. A clash on classified documents. March 31, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37357-2004Mar30¬Found=true
- Adam Clymer. 2003. Government openness at issue as Bush holds on to records. Jan 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_02/010403A.wh.secrecy.htm
- Matthew Yglesias. 2004. Credibility gap. March 30, The American Prospect. Online at www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/03/yglesias-m-03-30.html
- Memory Hole. 2003. Media Misquote and Excise Bush Comment About “Scripted” Press Conference. Online at www.thememoryhole.com/media/scripted-scrub.htm
- Associated Press. 2004. Images of U.S. soldiers’ coffins released. April 22. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0422-11.htm
- Linda McQuaig. 2003. 9/11 movie paints Bush as hero. June 1. Toronto Star. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
- Rebecca Carr. 2004. Government secrecy growing since Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. March 14, Palm Beach Post. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
- Karen Kwiatkowski. 2004. The new Pentagon papers. Salon.com, Mar 10. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0310-09.htm
- Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest. 2004. The lie factory. Jan/Feb, Mother Jones. Online at www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
- Dana Milbank. 2004. The administration v the administration. June 29, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2004Jun28.html?referrer=emailarticle
- Scott Sonner. 2004. Old Forest Service photos raise flap. April 13, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6413-2004Apr12¬Found=true
- Ed Garvey. 2004. Right wing now hijacking PBS by moving to control content. June 9, Madison Times. Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
- Mike Allen. 2004. Pentagon deleted Rumsfeld comment. April 21, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A28729-2004Apr20¬Found=true
- Edward Lazarus. 2001. The Bush Administration and secrecy: Limiting what we can know about the government, while expanding what it can know about us. Findlaw.com, Nov. 27. Online at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011127.html
- Blaine Harden. 2004. What you don’t see at Olympic Park. June 21, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56373-2004Jun20.html?referrer=emailarticle
- theMemoryhole.org. 2003. White House alters web pages about Iraq combat. Memoryhole.org. Online at http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/iraq-combat/
- Progressive Newswire. 2004. CNN to Al Jazeera: Why report civilian deaths? Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
- Robert Dreyfuss. 2002. The Pentagon muzzles the CIA. American Prospect 13(22). Online at http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
- Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004. Scientific integrity in policymaking: An investigation into the Bush Administration’s misuse of science. UCUSA.org. Executive Summary online at http://www2.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1322
- Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. 2003. The secrets of September 11. Newsweek. Online at http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp
- Andrew C. Revkin and Katharine Q. Seelye. 2003. Report by the EPA leaves out data on climate change. June 19, New York Times.
- Elisabeth Bumiller. 2001. Bush keeps a grip on presidential papers. Nov 2, NY Times.
- Robert Bryce. 2002. The loyal lieutenants: Bush applies litmus test of allegiance in choosing inner circle. Weeklywire.com.
- David Ray Griffin. 2005. The 9/11 Commission report: A 571-page lie. 911truth.org. Online at www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050523112738404
- Abid Aslam. 2006. Incomes fall, hunger worsens as Bush says we’re ‘doing fine.’ Feb 28, OneWorld.net. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022806D.shtml
- Federation of American Scientists. 2003. Remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney to the American Society of News Editors. fas.org, April 9. Online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2003/04/vp040903.html
- Federation of American Scientists. 2003. Project on Government Secrecy. Online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
- Charles Lewis. 2003. Even in wartime, stealth and democracy do not mix. Center for Public Integrity. Online at http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=506&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
- The Propaganda Remix project. Online at http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
- Paul Boutin. 2003. Grand old protest. slate.com, Jan 24. Online at http://slate.msn.com/id/2077553/
- Dennis Roddy. 2003. Bush-backing letters to editor eerily similar. Jan 25, Post-Gazette.com, .
- Elizabeth Bumiller. 2003. Keepers of Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights. May 16, New York Times.
