“Our society is generating poverty and inequality, and generating it way more for low-income women of color than it is for anybody else.”
Aug 19 2016
NYT Cites FAIR’s Criticism of NYT
By FAIR
In an explainer about Donald Trump hiring Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO, the New York Times references FAIR’s criticism of the Times’ handling of the distorted ACORN story, which was promoted by Andrew Breitbart.
Aug 19 2016
‘If You’re So Proud of This Technology, Put It on the Label’
CounterSpin interview with Patty Lovera about GMO labeling
“If we’re going to tell people that they are voting with their dollars and they’re making decisions, you have to give them all the information. And when we came to that line, the industry wasn’t willing to do that.”
Aug 19 2016
‘They Are Incentivized to Arrest People Because It Raises Money’
CounterSpin interview with Donna Murch on for-profit punishment
“Nearly everyone who’s being arrested or incarcerated is incurring criminal justice debt. And in many states you can be stripped of your right to vote until you pay off all of your criminal justice debt. So I talk about that essentially as a modern day poll tax.”
Aug 19 2016
Felicia Kornbluh on the Politics of Welfare
By CounterSpin
We’re told we’re in a moment of reconsideration, perhaps, of the notion that depriving needy people of assistance would lead to their gainful employment and well-being. A true reconsideration of the 1990s welfare overhaul would require a so-far invisible recentering of the people in its crosshairs: low-income women, particularly mothers raising children on their own.
Aug 17 2016
NYT Touts Honduras as Ad for ‘American Power’–Leaving Out Support for Murderous Coup Regime
A Times writer offers the results of Honduran anti-violence programs as “a striking rebuke to the rising isolationists in American politics,” who “seem to have lost their faith in American power.” But she failed to explain how American power paved the way for the shocking rise in violence in Honduras.
But Nazario failed to explain how American power paved the way for the shocking rise in violence in Honduras.
Aug 15 2016
Humanitarian Nightmare for Colombia’s Wayuu Fails to Awaken Corporate Media
The documented deaths of more than 4,700 Colombian indigenous children in just the last eight years are a humanitarian nightmare, but corporate media appear unmoved.
Aug 15 2016
Election Meddling: Bad if Done to USA, Bad to Complain About if Done by USA
By Adam Johnson
When US media—to say nothing of the leading contender to be the next president of the US—allege that foreign elements are steering our politics, that’s rational, serious discourse. When others do it, it’s laughable, unhinged blabbering.
