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‘Manchin Has Taken the Lead in Diluting Ethics Provisions’
“Joe Manchin has positioned himself at the forefront of seeking to slow down and weaken the climate regulations.”
HBO’s Anti-Maduro Propaganda Is Cruder Than Venezuelan Oil
Western media have long developed a kind of shorthand that demands total impunity for US-backed politicians like Leopoldo López in Venezuela.
Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal
Corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices.
Censorship Is OK When Transphobes Do It
The Guardian redaction has some trans activists wondering if the rhetoric of the far-right media is bleeding into the mainstream.
David Moore on Manchin’s Conflict, Jim Naureckas on Covid and Media
“We’re going to have a representative of fossil fuel interests crafting the policy that reduces our emissions from fossil fuels.”
‘The Demonization Was Meant to Pacify Readers to Accept the Brutality’
“Africa, Africans and descendants of Africans, including in this country, were really made into the Other.”
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Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal
Corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices.
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds
New York City’s two big tabloid dailies gave far more coverage to crime than to the affordable housing crisis in the past year.
TV News Coverage of Southern Border Lacks Refugee Sources, Historical Context
TV news coverage of the southern US border largely ignores the experiences and voices of those most impacted by the immigration system.
Sunday Shows Hit Snooze on Climate Alarm
If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, journalists have to move beyond debating its existence or importance, and start looking at both its causes—very concretely, looking at culprits—and its solutions.
Leading Papers Talked Up Establishment’s Senate Candidates
Democrats celebrated dual Georgia Senate race victories this week, which gives them, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaker vote, a bare majority in the Senate. But not all Democrats are created equal, and the one-vote margin makes the politics of each individual in that majority more consequential. In 2020, several states witnessed competitive Democratic […]
