# From Muckrakers to Corporate Media: The need for Indy Media today w/ Mickey Huff (G&R 486) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/from-muckrakers-to-corporate-media-the-need-for-indy-media-today-w-mickey-huff-g-r-486 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/from-muckrakers-to-corporate-media-the-need-for-indy-media-today-w-mickey-huff-g-r-486.md Podcast: [Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547) Published: 2026-04-14T09:41:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/From-Muckrakers-to-Corporate-Media-The-need-for-Indy-Media-today-w-Mickey-Huff-GR-486-e3hpop5 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/118333669/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-12%2F17e49fcd-5826-e97b-abb9-81c5e6d64700.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/from-muckrakers-to-corporate-media-the-need-for-indy-media-today-w-mickey-huff-g-r-486 Duration seconds: 2445 ## Resource It’s the 50th anniversary of Project Censored, so we had another great discussion w/ its director Mickey Huff of Project about the history of muckraking and how it evolved into the corporate media we have today. We also discussed evolution of media in the Vietnam, Watergate eras and after toward a more complicit approach with government which has led us to the current moment of Trump’s threats and intimidation of the media. Finally , we talked about the importance of independent media and investigative journalism. Guest Bio// Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored (founded in 1976) and is the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Huff is the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media and Professor of Journalism at Ithaca College. He is also the executive producer and co-host of The Project Censored Show on KPFA, Pacifica Radio, in Berkeley CA, and airs on more than 50 stations around the US and is also a podcast online. ------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody πŸ”— Links 🌐 Project Censored: https://www.projectcensored.org/ 🌐 We Need β€˜More Muckrakers and Fewer Buck-Takers’ (https://bit.ly/4c6JuK0) πŸ’š Support the Green and Red Podcast πŸŽ‰ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast β˜• One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR πŸŽ™οΈ Follow Green and Red πŸ”— Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org πŸ“’ Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork πŸ“» Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org πŸ”₯ Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC) 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Produced by Bob (@b… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/from-muckrakers-to-corporate-media-the-need-for-indy-media-today-w-mickey-huff-g-r-486/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/from-muckrakers-to-corporate-media-the-need-for-indy-media-today-w-mickey-huff-g-r-486.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.