BY Joshua Cho`

WaPo Backing Limited Impeachment Was Constitutional Disaster

February 27, 2020

BY Teddy Ostrow

Media Vapors Over Vaping Cloud Public Health Goals

February 27, 2020

BY Jim Naureckas

Bernie Sanders Can’t Win (by as Much) Unless Youth Vote Surges (Like It Recently Has)

February 26, 2020

BY Dean Baker

NYT’s Look at Democratic Tax Plans Is an Orgy of Really Big Numbers

February 25, 2020

BY Janine Jackson

‘We Have to Look at the Underpinnings of Environmental Degradation’

February 25, 2020

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Washington Post photo of Donald Trump accompanying impeachment story

WaPo Backing Limited Impeachment Was Constitutional Disaster

A critical flaw with corporate media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s impeachment was how it obscured the extent of the Trump administration’s litany of impeachable offenses.

NPR Depiction of Vaping

Media Vapors Over Vaping Cloud Public Health Goals

There’s been a moralist war on nicotine vaping for years, despite the scientific near-consensus that it is far safer than conventional cigarettes, which kill 480,000 Americans a year. 

Mother Jones: Turnout in previous elections among Americans 18-29

Bernie Sanders Can’t Win (by as Much) Unless Youth Vote Surges (Like It Recently Has)

Election Focus 2020: Even when you assume that Bernie Sanders supporters won’t vote as much as they say they will, and will vote when they say they won’t, Sanders still wins

New York Times photo of an Elizabeth Warren rally (Photo: Mason Trinca/NYT)

NYT’s Look at Democratic Tax Plans Is an Orgy of Really Big Numbers

Election Focus 2020: The New York Times gives a a true orgy of really big numbers in the form of trillions of dollars of additional taxes and spending, providing readers with no context that would let them know how much impact these taxes are likely to have on the economy and/or their pocketbooks.

‘We Have to Look at the Underpinnings of Environmental Degradation’

“Environmental degradation is about… these US corporations, backed by US government, that are allowed to run roughshod over peoples’ lands in the name of, again, profit.”

Bernie Sanders Plunges to First Place

Election Focus 2020: While some coverage is still stuck in denial on Bernie Sanders, for the most part corporate media have moved on to the next stage of grieving, which is anger.

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Amy Klobuchar (right) answers ABC's request for a candidate willing to redbait Bernie Sanders.

ABC Asking for Attacks Was a Lazy Way to Run a Debate

Election Focus 2020: The first half hour of the debate was almost entirely given over to non-policy sparring over electability (including the bogeyman of socialism) and experience.

Washington Post depiction of drought (photo: Jon Nazca/Reuters)

Media on Climate Crisis: Don’t Organize, Mourn

While US media have indeed ramped up their coverage of the climate crisis, they continue to give short shrift to what are arguably the most important factors for determining our future: what specific human practices are responsible for the changing climate, why carbon emissions continue to rise, and what we can and should be doing about it.

To Corporate Media, an Exercise Bike Ad Is More Newsworthy Than 3/4 of a Trillion for the Pentagon

Only the Washington Post covered the NDAA more than Peloton (10 articles versus 5), while every other outlet gave an ad for an exercise bike more coverage than a multi-billion-dollar grant to the military industrial complex.

New York Times photo of Hong Kong militants

With People in the Streets Worldwide, Media Focus Uniquely on Hong Kong

From the Yellow Vests in France to demonstrations in Lebanon, Gaza, Chile, Ecuador and Haiti, sustained movements all over the planet have taken to the street demanding change. Yet media have been disproportionately interested in only one: the Hong Kong protests.

Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper and Marc Lacey moderating the Ohio Democratic debate

In Ohio Debate, Media Stuck to an Increasingly Rigid Script

Election Focus 2020: This week’s Democratic presidential debate confirmed that media are stuck in a fairly rigid debate script that elevates questions about healthcare and the economy above all else, and leaves many pressing topics deeply underexplored.