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BY Writers and Scholars Opposing Censorship
Open Letter to John Mulholland, US editor of The Guardian
February 18, 2021
BY Janine Jackson
‘Washington Has Been Asking the Wrong Question on North Korea’
February 17, 2021
BY Janine Jackson
‘If Our Goal Is to Stop Killing Afghans, We’re Going About It All Wrong’
February 17, 2021
BY Ari Paul
‘Woke Capital’ Isn’t Real—but Conservative Fearmongering Is
February 16, 2021
BY Joe Emersberger
Ignoring Repression and Dirty Tricks in Coverage of Ecuador’s Election
February 16, 2021

The Guardian must make clear that its writers have the freedom to comment critically on Israel without suffering career consequences.

“We need to shift our priorities now, from war to human needs. And in the case of Korea, a peace agreement would actually allow all parties to do that, so that all sides can start to reduce their arms.”

“There really isn’t any basis to say that continuing this war has any connection to protecting people in this country, to keeping Americans safe. There is no military solution to terrorism.”

The Republican Party is looking toward a rebranding where it can channel anti-business rage toward standing athwart social progress on race, gender and sexuality.

Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno jailing political opponents, whom he praised to the skies when he needed them to gain power in 2017, is evidence of sound character to the New York Times—not evidence that Moreno is a cynical person who undermined democracy.

Just because the Democratic impeachment managers have decided that it’s strategically unwise to point out the culpability of half of the jurors in their trial doesn’t mean the media must adopt the same framing.
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I will also add: I have talked to many writers over the past week who have wanted to come out for me publicly but have been worried about their career consequences. The effect on free speech is VERY real. Guardian is a prestigious gatekeeper and ticking them off hurts a writer.
Truly appreciate this letter signed by 40+ academics, journalists, activists (inc. Noam Chomsky and Cornel West) protesting my firing from the @guardian over a tweet critical of military aid to Israel.
To "co-sign" please reply or RT with "co-signed."
https://fair.org/home/open-letter-to-john-mulholland-us-editor-of-the-guardian/
List of co-signatories so far. Thank you also to @FAIRmediawatch for hosting this open letter and for thier excellent work holding the liberal press accountable.
2Unbelievable amount of credit due to the reporters at FAIR. The insanity of media coverage over the last year in regards to China and COVID had almost completely blackpilled me. Thank you for calling out the NYT for its derangement. Sincerely.
https://fair.org/home/nyts-china-syndrome/

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 […]

A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates.

Despite the increase of young people planning to vote, corporate media have largely forgotten about them in the weeks leading up to the election.

Establishment media overwhelmingly turned to columnists, pundits and government officials for interpretation of the uprisings—rather than to the activists facing tear gas on the frontlines.

While one cannot describe China’s national security law as an act of “colonialism” or “imperialism,” since Hong Kong is part of China, FAIR conducted a study comparing media coverage of Hong Kong’s national security law and actual colonialism by the US in Puerto Rico, and by its ally Israel in Palestine.
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