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‘The FCC Is Trying to Roll Back Protections Won Over the Past 60 Years’: CounterSpin interview with Joseph Torres on FCC and structural racism
“We have not reconciled the history of… how government regulation was just reinforcing the racial apartheid that exists in our country.”
Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.
Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.
How NYT’s Bad Reporting Helped Justify Trump’s Tariffs on Brazil
The arguments presented in the New York Times have bolstered Trump’s justification for imposing tariffs on Brazilian goods.
NYT Complains Trump Isn’t Anti-Media Enough
The New York Times is angry because it supports the muzzling of TikTok for Cold War–inspired reasons.
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Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.
Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation
Gaza’s conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.
America’s Opinion Pages Overwhelmingly Supported Trump’s Attack on Iran
56% of Americans opposed Trump’s bombing. Why wasn’t this reflected in the range of opinions presented by America’s top press outlets?
NYT Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.
On CNN, LA’s ICE Protesters Were Seen and Not Heard
A FAIR study found that CNN’s primetime coverage of the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests in early June rarely included the voices of the protesters themselves.
