Media Obscure Enormity of Trump Corruption
Why would a majority of the public believe that Republicans and Democrats are equally corrupt? A FAIR study suggests that media play no small role.
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When Trump’s Prosecutions Become Persecutions, Headlines Should Say So
While the tempo of Donald Trump’s political prosecutions has increased, headlines routinely fail to highlight the authoritarian nature of these persecutions.
‘They Needed Atrocity Propaganda to Justify Mass Slaughter of Palestinians’ CounterSpin interview with Adam Johnson on How to Sell a Genocide
"The New York Times used 'massacre' 124 times. They used 'slaughter' 53 times. They used neither words to describe the killing of Palestinians."
When Trump Threatens to Overturn an Election, NYT Suggests He Might Have a Point
New York Times editors had to have known that its investigation would be a gift to an administration that maintains that Democratic wins are not legitimate.
Brian Mier on Brazilian Election
You can smell what US corporate press are cooking with the New York Times headline that the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was "a blow to Brazil's right."
Metro Times Defends the Truth in an Era of Lies
Establishment corporate media have to have the courage to say that the Earth is round, the sky is blue and the Earth rotates around the Sun.
‘Experimenting on People on the Night of Their Execution Can’t Be Right’: CounterSpin interviews with Dahlia Lithwick (2014) and Liliana Segura (2020) on the death penalty
"We used to hang people in the town square. It used to be that it wasn't meant to be clinical. It was meant to be a gruesome public spectacle."
‘We Have to Step Back and Look at How Tolerant We Are of Violence in Homes’: CounterSpin interviews with Soraya Chemaly (2016) and Jane Manning (2021) on domestic violence
"When the justice system refuses to act in cases of gender-based violence...they are effectively depriving us of safety and of the equal protection of the law."
Adam Johnson on How to Sell a Genocide
Disinformation has been a key part of Israel’s US-supported war on Palestinians since before October 7, 2023, but it has been amped up since.
Don’t Pretend the ‘War on Drugs’ Has Anything to Do With Fighting Drugs
Media exposes reinforce the narrative that the US is in fact fighting against drug cartels—and not using the “drug war” apparatus as a politico-economic weapon.
Why We Should Be Skeptical of Generic Ballot Predictions
Generic ballot predictions over the past quarter of a century have sometimes wildly over-predicted, and sometimes wildly under-predicted, the winner.
Western Media Accept Trump’s Plundering of Venezuelan Oil as Business as Usual
Objections to the new Venezuelan oil plan were mostly procedural and out of concern for appearances, not driven by any principled opposition to US predation.
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