Vox Omits US Military Role in African Instability
Vox had much to say about causes of African conflict, but pointedly left out any reference to the role of US training programs.
Vox’s US Government-Linked Experts Present Options for Korea: Sanctions or War
Vox presents viewers with an array of US government-linked talking heads who insist the only options to resolve the conflict in Korea are devastating sanctions or apocalyptic war.
What Corporate Media Failed to Learn About Canadian Single-Payer
When it was announced that several journalists would travel with Sen. Bernie Sanders in October for a hospital tour of Canada to learn about its single-payer system, one question immediately sprang to mind: What would corporate media do to smear universal healthcare this time?
Vox Hedges Headline in Fit of Single-Payer Skepticism
Vox’s headline-meddling provides an insight into corporate media’s approach to hot-button issues like single-payer health insurance.
How Media Spread CIA’s Sectarian, Anti-Iran ‘Mideast Cold War’ Narrative
A new Vox video is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald Trump’s vehemently anti-Iran administration, is ratcheting up aggression against that country.
With No Disclosure, Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
Vox, effectively a Comcast subsidiary, writes a glowing explainer on why Comcast’s $500 million investment is solid and has huge upside, on the same day as the investment.
Vox’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest, Explained
While Vox coverage of its corporate parents, siblings and cousins isn’t uniformly positive, all too often it is. Even in stories that aren’t more or less verbatim PR copy, disclosures ought to be mandatory—especially when it’s as direct as covering Comcast and NBC corporate.
Fast Food Automation, an Old Idea, Gets New Life to Bash Fight for 15
Putatively liberal outlet Vox spends a great many column inches trying to stop the national labor movement known as “Fight for 15” from increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Comcast-Funded Website Plugs Comcast-Owned TV Show Promoting Comcast-Backed Trade Pact
News “explainer” Vox ran a seemingly innocuous write-up on Friday of President Barack Obama appearing on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon the night before, “slow jamming” the benefits of the highly controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. It would be funny if it weren’t a borderline parody of everything wrong with corporate-owned “new media”:
Vox’s CIA-Backed ‘Democracy’ Standard Is OK With Slavery and Women Not Voting
Vox, which constantly tells its readers that life is actually swell, with the momentum of history indisputably on the road to justice, decreased poverty and less war, consistently uses a method of ranking countries to prop up its argument that “democracy” is on the rise. But dig into the criteria being used and you find a troubling definition of “democracy” that serves the interests of US power—and wealthy elites.
Vox’s Puff Piece on Goldman Sachs Doesn’t Reveal Goldman Sponsors Vox
Vox’s Matthew Yglesias (4/25/16) gave a generous write-up to Goldman Sachs’ new commercial banking subsidiary, GS Bank, without noting that Goldman Sachs is a sponsor of Vox.
Bolivian President Isn’t Radical Enough for Corporate Media
Vilifying left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean leaders is nothing new from the US media–from Chile’s Salvador Allende to Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, from Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to Mauricio Funes of El Salvador. Bolivian President Evo Morales is no exception, as he caught the attention of the website Vox, a new outlet that sets out to “explain the news” with an emphasis on data analysis.
