Craig Aaron

Craig Aaron is the communications director of the national media reform group Free Press and a senior editor of In These Times. The views expressed here are his own.

Craig Aaron, a senior editor of In These Times, writes the monthly “Capitol Report” column on Washington politics.

Aaron is the communications director of Free Press, a national, nonpartisan organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for more democratic media. He works regularly on a variety of issues related to media ownership, public broadcasting, cable TV and the future of the Internet. Before joining Free Press, Aaron was an investigative reporter for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, where he helped create and launch www.WhiteHouseForSale.org, a site that tracked major funders of the 2004 presidential campaign. He has appeared as a commentator on ABC World News Tonight, the BBC and NPR and his work has been cited in the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and numerous other national and local publications.

Aaron served as managing editor of In These Times from 1999 to 2003. He also worked as the features, news and assistant editor of the magazine. Aaron is the editor of Appeal to Reason: 25 Years In These Times (Seven Stories Press), an essay collection and anthology published on the magazine’s silver anniversary. Aaron’s reporting, commentary and criticism have also appeared in Dissent, The Progressive, TomPaine.com, Alternet and Dollars & Sense. He has taught in the journalism department of Chicago’s Columbia College and advised the Independent Press Association. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Articles by Craig Aaron

• Comcast: Worst. Company. Ever.
  April 17, 2008
• Untangling the Next Telecom Act
  March 6, 2006
• Country's Jingoistic Jingles
  December 28, 2005
• In and Out Burglars
  November 29, 2005
• How the Right Has Won
  October 27, 2005
• Standard Issues
  October 6, 2005
• Sand, Sun and Spectrum Policy
  August 30, 2005
• Keeping Honest Journalism Alive
  July 6, 2005
• The Plot to Elect Kerry
  May 3, 2005
• Ill Communication
  February 4, 2005
• A Little More to the Left
  December 10, 2004
• A Timeline of Failure
  October 28, 2004
• I Think He Can, I Think He Can
  October 21, 2004
• Cash and Kerry
  July 27, 2004
• Bedtime for Bobos
  April 27, 2004
• Bought and Paid For
  March 26, 2004
• Every Breath You Take
  February 19, 2004
• Devil’s Advocate
  January 23, 2004
• Take Bush Home, Country Roads
  December 5, 2003
• Wall Street Windfall
  November 19, 2003
• It’s Not Sleazy. It’s HBO.
  October 3, 2003
• $200 Million Pyramid Scheme
  August 4, 2003
• Banana Republicans
  June 23, 2003
• Terror In The Territories
  April 12, 2002
• Appealing to Reason
  January 18, 2002

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