In today’s world a column called “News To Make You Furious” may seem superfluous, but we think it’s important. It started on the 10th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster when Greg Palast went to the crash site to see the effects a decade later. His report made US furious, but looking around we couldn’t see any other outlets reporting on it. That’s frequently the case with news… lots of big stories, important or trivial, suck all the oxygen out of the media room and many of the things we should be paying attention to get buried. Especially today, when stories which could affect us for generations gets buried under Trump’s Tweets or KellyAnne’s Alternative Facts, we think it’s important to dig deeper on the important stuff. What do we mean by that? Here’s what we covered in 2017…
Looking farther back in Fury…
Again, News To Make You Furious is somewhat redundant in today’s world. It’s more so because so many of the problems we addressed have become “I told you so’s” in Trumpworld. From For-Profit Prisons and Civil Asset Forfeiture to the Death of the Middle Class and Media Consolidation, many of these infuriating issues haven’t just not gotten better, they’ve gotten much worse and are continuing to slide. Here’s a sampling of some of our Furious articles that are unfortunately just as relevant today as they were when we wrote them. And remember, these are ONLY a sample…
