NYT’s Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There
The New York Times has a long tradition of promoting fascists while crying censorship when a leftist government defends itself against coups.
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The New York Times has a long tradition of promoting fascists while crying censorship when a leftist government defends itself against coups.
It’s not a good-faith regulation to protect the populace, but an effort to either seize or severely weaken TikTok in the name of US interests.
An emerging complaint corporate media have against the nationwide peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.
Once again the Washington Post depicts efforts to address racial and gender bias as a bigger problem than racial and gender bias themselves.
The discovery of mass graves in Gaza “horrified” the UN rights chief. But it has yet to prompt so strong a reaction from US news outlets.
Media’s challenge is to frame the “plausible” genocide in a way that will not undermine long-term US/Israeli domination of Palestine.
“I know all of the cases that they cherry-picked their text fragments from. They stitched together excerpts.”
Fox created a fear-mongering narrative that distorts the reality of what is actually occurring at the southern border.
An ethnic voting bloc in Dearborn might “claim” not to be a Fifth Column—but for the Wall Street Journal, they are at best unwitting stooges.
Israel’s official list showed only one infant was killed in the October 7 attack. But most US news media ignored that evidence.
Reporting on the government institution charged with saving us from the Covid pandemic was restricted enough to leave real holes in what we knew. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—like many other organizations these days, public and private—prohibits its employees from speaking freely to reporters. At many entities, the rules mean staff members […]
David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city’s media (AP, 1/15/24). Sinclair is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company and one of the largest owners of television stations in […]
An exercise in culture jamming got two Northwestern students brought up on a charge that could have landed them in prison for a year.
The Washington Post sought to preempt DC voters by getting rid of Mayor Vincent Gray before he stood for reelection.
The New York Times’ post–New Hampshire analysis bodes very poorly for how coverage of the 2024 election will proceed.
The New York Times apparently decided that the huge pro-Gaza protest on January 13 didn’t warrant a story,
“Private equity” describes a specific for-profit corporate structure. Private equity firms form discreet “funds,” recruiting rich individuals and institutions to buy in. Funds typically focus on particular industrial sectors or types of investments. Investors’ money is locked up for a period of time, with significant penalties for early withdrawal. Private equity firms make their […]
German media giant Axel Springer is investigating one of its US media outlets for reporting truthful information about a wealthy couple.
Some people’s dystopian fears for the future are in fact the dystopian histories and contemporary realities of many other people.
Sunday show guests skewed strongly toward US politicians with strong financial influence from the military industry and pro-Israel advocates.
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