I learned a simple truth from my late friend, the people’s historian Howard Zinn: You can’t be neutral on a moving train.
With the chaos of the Trump presidency fading into the rearview mirror (for now), much of the corporate news media has rushed to return to “normal”: retreating to the daily noise of presidential approval polls, gas prices, and personality squabbles.
As if the planet weren’t still hurtling towards climate catastrophe. As if normal wasn’t the same soil in which Trumpism grew. As if we could all afford to take a vacation from tackling the root causes of the many crises we now face.
That’s why I’m so grateful to be part of The Intercept: an independent, nonprofit newsroom that rejects the fiction of journalistic objectivity, but never shirks from tough investigations that reveal the truth about those in power, no matter which party they work for.
Unfortunately, the post-Trump slump in news readership has had a harsh financial impact. While The Intercept was fortunate to be founded with the support of a major philanthropist, we’ve increasingly come to depend on the generosity of readers. But we’ve gradually lost more than 20 percent of our monthly donors since the election.
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