Mika Major

How to build a radically truthful news outlet The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.

My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for a dramatic change of tactics by major media to produce "radically truthful” news that defeats the right-wing disinformation industry. Right now, the media are getting slam-dunked by fascist liars. Here’s a thread with my 10 main points. 🧵🧵🧵

The USA has the capacity to do anything it wants, to anyone, anywhere. But it cannot control the consequences of choosing to do it.

Screenshot of a tweet from @ryangrim dated 3 Jan 2026 reading: "It’s important to remember that Trump genuinely believes, and was told repeatedly by Rubio, that Venezuela had a hand in manipulating voting machines to help Biden win in 2020. What Trump did today must be understood in the context of that paranoid lunacy."

Very good point:

Cos play

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE

Just finished reading the Jack Smith transcript. I've highlighted what I consider to be stand-out moments, and our team at MSW Media will be cutting together a highlight reel for you. Stay tuned!

Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel

I'm getting all puffed because I'm doing some things I've put off for weeks. But it is to avoid doing other things I've avoided for weeks

Look out for the Bernie Bros. Oh wait, they only go after women who state facts about Bernie

That after-holidays-day nigh, and I resent it!

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What? Lee Greenwood not available? Kid Rock?

Do tell, Ms. Wiles.

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia.

2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

Tried to tell you, but noooooo! We tried to tell blacks for rump the same thing and they didn’t listen either, so fuck all y’all!

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

Excellent!

🤬🤬👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Please repost!

We all need to be Katie Phang.

1948: Jax Beer airs one of the first African American television commercials

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Most people don’t know this, but the first U.S. TV commercial to feature Black people in a non‑stereotypical way aired in 1948. Here's the true story of why it mattered.(cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

I want CBS to do an expose on Bari

Also, lying like Tampon King

News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Indeed

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Tracking the goose steps

To give 11 interviews and *still* not know if you are on the record really underscores the gross incompetence of the Trump team.

Or the toady friend who bought election machines for 26 states will just rig it.