2026年3月26日木曜日

アビー・マーティン - ウィキペディア

Abby Martin - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin

Abby Martin

This article is about the journalist. For other people with the name, see Abby Martin (disambiguation).

Abby Martin is an American journalist,[1][2] television presenter, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored.[3][4] Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013),[5] and co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013).[6]

She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015 and gained attention for condemning the Russian annexation of Crimea on-air, and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the film documentary The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom.

Early life

Born in Oakland, California, Martin grew up in nearby Pleasanton,[7] where she attended Amador Valley High School, graduating in 2002.[8][9] She became interested in journalism when her old high school boyfriend enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks in 2001. "I didn't want him going to war, let alone fighting in one," she recalls. "I began to critically ask 'What is really going on?'"[10] By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University, she began questioning what she called the "selling" of the Iraq War by the media.[10][8] She received an undergraduate degree in political science and minored in Spanish.

In 2004, she campaigned for John Kerry's presidential campaign, but became disillusioned with the left–right paradigm, a concept proposing that societies have a tendency to divide themselves into ideological opposites.[11] Martin worked for a time as an investigative journalist for a San Diego-based online news site until moving back to Northern California.[12][13]

9/11 truth movement

In 2008, Martin was active in the 9/11 truth movement,[14] a movement which disputes the consensus regarding the attacks of September 11, 2001. Martin set up her own "truther" group in San Diego, California.[15][16] That year, Martin said that the attacks of September 11 were "an inside job, and that our government was complicit in what happened".[17] In March 2014, the Associated Press wrote that Martin no longer believes that U.S. government officials might have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.[18]

Media Roots

In 2009, Martin founded the organization Media Roots, a citizen journalism platform for reporting news.[19] As an independent journalist with Media Roots, Martin covered the Occupy Oakland actions during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.[20] Her documentary video footage of Occupy Oakland protests was used by the family of Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old former Marine and Iraq War veteran, in a lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department. Martin's footage was used to argue that the protests were non-violent at the time Olsen was allegedly hit in the head with a police projectile.[8][21] RT took notice of Martin's work and began employing her as a correspondent.[22] In the fall of 2010, she moved to Washington, D.C.[23]

Breaking the Set and work for RT

From 2012 to 2015, Martin hosted her own show, Breaking the Set, on RT America.[24][25] The program described itself as "a show that cuts through the false left/right paradigm set by the establishment and reports the hard facts".[26] The original opening credits depict Martin applying a sledgehammer to a television tuned to CNN.[27]

Shortly after beginning her show on RT, Martin stated in an interview with media studies professor Mark Crispin Miller that "the media dismisses things that are too controversial as conspiracy theory".[28]

In 2014, Martin gained attention for her criticism of RT's coverage of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Martin closed her show on March 3, 2014, with a minute-long statement condemning the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[29][30][31][32] Glenn Greenwald compared Martin's statement favorably to the unquestioning behavior of the United States media during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[33] Critics of Martin argue that she appeared to be reading from a teleprompter, implying that her remarks were made with the consent of the show's producers.[34][35] RT issued a statement saying: "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air."[36] RT added: "[W]e'll be sending her to Crimea to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story." Martin declined the offer, saying, "I am not going to Crimea despite the statement RT has made."[37] The New York Times wrote that RT notified Martin that what she had said about Ukraine was "not in line with our editorial policy".[38]

Martin left RT in February 2015.[39] An RT spokesperson told BuzzFeed: "Abby decided that this is the time for her to try something new. We are proud of the great work she has done as the host of Breaking the Set."[39][40]

Martin called the charges of foreign control over her and Tulsi Gabbard "neo-McCarthyist hysteria" typical of the New Cold War. She said that the "campaign to malign RT" by "the corporate media" had resulted in a chilling effect over legitimate dissident reporters. She said that she had "complete editorial control" over her RT show, as did other American RT journalists like Chris Hedges and Lee Camp.[41] She had earlier refused RT's offer to send her on a tour of Crimea, saying she didn't want a "vetted PR experience."[39]

Millennial Magazine has described Martin as an outspoken media representative for the Millennial generation who reports "stories that deserve public recognition".[42] Journalist Glenn Greenwald praised Martin for condemning the Russian invasion of Crimea during an episode of her RT program Breaking the Set, saying Martin demonstrated "journalistic independence".[43][44]

The Empire Files

In September 2015, Martin launched The Empire Files, an interview and documentary series. She has hosted guests including Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Richard D. Wolff, Ralph Nader and Jill Stein.[45][non-primary source needed]

The show was originally hosted by Telesur English, a media outlet sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela. Martin told Ben Norton writing for AlterNet: "The show is totally independent of Telesur. We merely sell them the content; they have zero control over anything we do".[46] In 2018, Telesur stopped funding The Empire Files due to increasing US sanctions on Venezuela, according to a press release published by Martin's Media Roots website. Martin, her co-producer and husband Michael Prysner, and other Telesur contract journalists had their funding blocked by the application of United States sanctions against Venezuela.[47] Academic Stuart Davis cites the cancellation as an example of how United States sanctions hamper public funding of media production in Venezuela.[47]

In August 2018 the show moved to a donation model in order to continue production.[48] The show has since become a web series exclusively, with episodes being uploaded to Martin's website, YouTube and Vimeo. Released in May 2019, her feature film documentary, The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom, concerns the Gaza–Israel conflict.[49] It was shown in the US, UK and Australia at independent theatres.[50] In May 2021, Martin released the film for free on YouTube.

Martin was interviewed and featured in the award-winning documentary feature film Seeds for Liberation (2026) by director Matthew Solomon.[51] The film discusses the Free Palestine movement and references her Empire Files.

Free speech lawsuit

In February 2020, Martin's booking to speak at a conference at Georgia Southern University on Critical Media Literacy was canceled when she refused to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel as required by law in the State of Georgia. Martin, represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed a free-speech lawsuit against the State of Georgia.[52] The conference was later canceled.[53]

In May 2021, in a federal court hearing in Georgia, District Judge Mark Cohen ruled in Martin's favor when he found that a law created to discourage the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was in violation of the First Amendment.[54][55] Judge Cohen ruled that Georgia's law "prohibits inherently expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment."[56]

Personal life

Martin is married to her Empire Files co-producer, Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran.[57]

Selected work

Film

  • Project Censored the Movie (2013), as herself[58]
  • 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013), co-director[59]
  • The Choice Is Ours (2016), as herself[60]
  • Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019), director[61]
  • Earth's Greatest Enemy (2025), director[62]

Books

  • Martin, Abby. (2011). Framing the Messengers: Junk Food News and News Abuse for Dummies. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609803582.
  • Martin, Abby. (2011). Media Democracy in Action. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609803582.
  • Martin, Abby. (2015). The Unheard Story of Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater, White Militias & Community Empowerment: An interview with scott crow and Malik Rahim. In scott crow (Ed.) Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader. GTK Press. ISBN 9780996546003.
  • Martin, Abby (2018) Project Censored. Foreword by Abby Martin.

Radio

  • Project Censored, KPFA (94.1 FM), co-host[63]

References

  1. Bakir, Vian (2018). Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315143347. ISBN 9781351388955 – via Google Books. Citizen journalist Abby Martin's tweet demands that Democrats who sanctioned torture be pursued [...]normal[page needed]
  2. ^ MacLeod, Alan (2019). "Assessing the Strength of the Five Filters Today". In MacLeod, Alan (ed.). Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429430329-4. ISBN 9780429772627 – via Google Books. when former RT journalist Abby Martin asked Senator Rand Paul why he supported Mitt Romney despite his aggressive foreign policy [...][page needed]
  3. ^ Huff, Mickey; Roth, Andy Lee (2012). Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011–2012. Project Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press. p. 421. ISBN 1609804236 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Huff, Mickey; Roth, Andy Lee (2013). Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012–13. Project Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press. p. 409. ISBN 1609804953 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Huff & Roth (2013), p. 432.
  6. ^ Anderson, John (January 22, 2013). "99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film". Variety. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  7. ^ Nemire, Jessica (March 21, 2014). "Talking with Oakland-Born RT America Anchor Abby Martin About Art and Life". "Exhibitionist". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on March 23, 2014. Born in Oakland and raised in Pleasanton, Martin [...]
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Abby Martin of Media Roots on Citizen Journalism at SFSU Media Literacy Event" (video). Media Roots. March 13, 2012 – via YouTube.[time needed]
  9. ^ Ciardelli, Dolores Fox. (September 6, 2002). "Leaving for college". Pleasanton Weekly. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Koss, Jeremy (May–June 2013). "Real Talk". SOMA Magazine. 27 (3): 52–53. ISSN 0896-5005.
  11. ^ Mckenty, Doug. (September 12, 2011). "KZYX Interview with Abby Martin of Media Roots". Thursday Morning Report. KZYX. Event occurs from 1:58—3:26. Archived August 1, 2014, at the Wayback Machine – via Media Roots.
  12. ^ Saportas, Oriana. (August 4, 2010). "Interview with Abby Martin about Media Roots" (video). Media Roots – via YouTube.
  13. ^ Kerkman, Cassandra (July 31, 2012). Mosco, Oskar (ed.). "MR Founder Abby Martin – Activist Turned Journalist". Media Roots.
  14. ^
  15. ^ "Watch as Russia Today presenter quits on live television over Moscow's actions in Crimea". www.nationalpost.com.
  16. ^ Bennett, Laura (March 5, 2014). "The Most Interesting Part of Abby Martin's Outburst on Russia Today: Its Aftermath". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  17. ^ Kirchick, James (March 4, 2014). "RT Anchors Riff Not as 'Rogue' as it Seems". Tablet. Retrieved July 28, 2019. On her program, she regularly gives air to outrageous conspiracy theories, including the notion that water fluoridation is a pernicious government plot to poison unsuspecting American citizens
  18. ^ Riechmann, Deb (March 5, 2014). "TV anchorwoman criticizes Kremlin on Ukraine". Big Story. Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. She once protested with the 9/11 Truth movement, which alleges that U.S. government officials might have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a theory to which Martin says she no longer subscribes
  19. ^ Priesnitz, Wendy. (Sept/Oct 2011). "Media Roots". The Media Beat. Natural Life, 141: 26. ISSN 0701-8002(subscription required)
  20. ^ Reitman, Janet (March 27, 2014). "The Young Renegade of TV News". Rolling Stone. 1205: 20. ISSN 0035-791X
  21. ^ Martin, Abby. (October 26, 2011). "Occupy Oakland: Police Standoff & Brutal Assault, Tear Gas" (video). Media Roots. Retrieved January 21, 2014 – via YouTube.
  22. ^ Ventura, Tyrel. (August 27, 2013). "Abby Martin Discusses Breaking The Set and Her Work at RT" (video). "Buzzsaw". TheLip.tv. Retrieved January 13, 2014. [dead link]
  23. ^ Martin, Robbie. (October 6, 2010). "Abby & Robbie Martin Introductions, Obama Administration" Deprecated link archived March 5, 2014, at archive.today. Dangerous Conversations. RadioIO.
  24. ^ van Zuylen-Wood, Simon (May 4, 2017). "At RT, News Breaks You". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  25. ^ Bidder, Benjamin. "Putin's Weapon in the War of Images". Der Spiegel. Vol. 33. pp. 134–135. ISSN 0038-7452.
    Bidder's article also appeared in other news outlets, such as "A anti-CNN russa na guerra das imagens" [Russian anti-CNN in the war of images]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Brazil. September 1, 2013. Archived from the original on September 2, 2013.
  26. ^ "Breaking the Set | About". Retrieved January 16, 2014 – via YouTube. [dead link]
  27. ^ Rankin, Jennifer (December 20, 2012). "Russia Today chases ratings with controversy". GlobalPost. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  28. ^ "Staged Terror, Fukushima Crime Syndicate, Conspiracy Reality". Breaking the Set (video). RT. November 1, 2012. Archived from the original on June 19, 2019 – via Markcrispinmiller.com.[time needed]
  29. ^ Austin, Henry (March 4, 2014). "News Anchor Slams Crimea Takeover on State-Funded Russian TV". NBC News. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  30. ^ Paget, Antonia (March 4, 2014). "Russia Today host condemns Ukraine 'occupation'". The Times (video).
  31. ^ "Ukraine crisis: Could Russia Today turn you into a Putin propagandist?". The Independent. Archived from the original on March 7, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  32. ^ Taylor, Adam (March 5, 2014). "RT journalist quits live on air, citing Russian intervention in Crimea". The Washington Post.
  33. ^ Greenwald, Glenn (March 4, 2014). "RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea – On RT". The Intercept. Archived from the original on June 23, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  34. ^ Krishnan, Joe (March 4, 2014). "Ukraine crisis: Russia Today TV host goes off-message with attack on intervention in Crimea". The Independent. Archived from the original on March 23, 2014. However, sharp-eyed viewers may have noticed that she was reading from the auto-cue and, therefore, presumably had permission from producers of the show to express her beliefs.
  35. ^ Graef, Aileen (March 4, 2014). "RT news anchor speaks out against Russian intervention". UPI. Archived from the original on March 23, 2014. Media analysts say that Martin was reading from a teleprompter and therefore more than likely had her producer's consent
  36. ^ "Russia TV host calls Ukraine intervention 'wrong' on-air". BBC News. March 4, 2014..
  37. ^ Ensor, Josie (March 4, 2014). "Russia Today host who criticised Kremlin sent to Crimea". The Daily Telegraph.
  38. ^ Rutenberg, Jim (September 18, 2016). "Larry King, the Russian Media and a Partisan Landscape". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  39. ^ Jump up to: a b c Gray, Rosie (February 19, 2015). "RT Host Who Criticized Russia's Ukraine Invasion Is Leaving The Network". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved February 23, 2026.
  40. ^ Gray, Rosie (March 9, 2015). "Jesse Ventura's Son And Oliver Stone's Son Get A Show At Russia Today". BuzzFeed. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  41. ^ "Useful Idiots: Abby Martin on New Doc 'Gaza Fights for Freedom'". Rolling Stone. October 25, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  42. ^ Hysen, Britt (February 21, 2026). "RT Host Abby Martin Takes On Corporate Media". Millennial Magazine. Retrieved February 23, 2026.
  43. ^ Mackey, Robert (March 4, 2014). "March 4 Updates on Ukraine Crisis | Russia Today Host Has Roots in '9/11 Truth' Movement". "The Lede". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2026.
  44. ^ Greenwald, Glenn (March 4, 2014). "RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea – On RT". The Intercept. Archived from the original on July 12, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  45. ^ "Empire Files | Videos". Retrieved August 11, 2020 – via YouTube.
  46. ^ Norton, Ben (June 3, 2017). "Venezuelan Opposition Spreads Lies About U.S. Journalists, Inciting Violence, Death Threats". AlterNet. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  47. ^ Jump up to: a b Davis, Stuart (2023). Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy. Haymarket Books. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-64259-812-4. OCLC 1345216431.
  48. ^ "US Sanctions Shut Down 'The Empire Files' with Abby Martin" (press release). Media Roots. Retrieved August 25, 2018. The Empire Files, which airs on TeleSUR throughout Latin America and on Free Speech TV and The Real News Network in the United States, has been funded through a contract with the TeleSUR network.
  49. ^ "Gaza Fights For Freedom | A Film by Abby Martin". Gaza Fights For Freedom. Archived from the original on August 5, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  50. ^ "'Gaza Fights For Freedom' Screening Tour with Abby Martin". Media Roots. August 15, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  51. ^ "Cast and Crew". Seeds For Liberation. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  52. ^ "Civil Rights Groups to Announce Federal Free Speech Lawsuit Against Georgia's Unconstitutional 'Israel Boycott' Law". Yahoo Finance. February 10, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  53. ^ Schechter, Dave (February 13, 2020). "Georgia Anti-BDS Law Challenged". Atlanta Jewish Times. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  54. ^ Martin v. Wrigley, 540 F. Supp. 3d 1220 (N.D. Ga. May 21, 2021), archived from the original on May 3, 2023.
  55. ^ Redden, Elizabeth (May 26, 2021). "Want Your Honorarium? Sign an Anti-BDS Pledge First". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
  56. ^ Neidig, Harper (May 24, 2021). "Federal judge says Georgia's anti-BDS law violates First Amendment". The Hill. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  57. ^ Day, Meagan (August 19, 2021). "'Antiwar Sentiment in the Military Is Stronger Than Ever.': Interview with Mike Prysner". Jacobin. Retrieved February 23, 2026. Prysner founded the organization March Forward! in 2008. Today, he's an antiwar journalist, having cowritten and produced multiple documentaries for the program The Empire Files, hosted by his wife, Abby Martin.
  58. ^ "IMDb: Project Censored the Movie (2013)". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
  59. ^ "99% // The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film". 99percentfilm.com. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
  60. ^ "The Venus Project". imdb.com. The Venus Project. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  61. ^ "Gaza Fights For Freedom". gazafightsforfreedom.com. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  62. ^ https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/
  63. ^ "Project Censored — The News that Didn't Make the News and Why". projectcensored.org. Project Censored.
[edit]
logo
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abby Martin.
logo
Wikiquote has quotations related to Abby Martin.
時刻: 0 件のコメント:
登録: コメント (Atom)

アビー・マーティン - ウィキペディア

Abby Martin - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin Abby Martin This article is about the journalist. For ot...