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In Hours of Israel/Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You’ll Seldom Hear: ‘Ceasefire’
As casualties in Gaza mount, most TV news outlets have paid scant attention to the growing calls for a ceasefire.
Unconfirmed ‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter
The IDF needed to differentiate its mass slaughter from Hamas’s violence—which it could only do by painting Hamas as subhuman.
Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters
The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.
Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors
The ability of reporters to cover Gaza is jeopardized by the alarming number of newspeople Israel has killed since the crisis began.
The Need for a Less Hypocritical Center at the New York Times
Centrists love to decry “both sides”–yet somehow it’s almost always the left that earns the bulk of their contempt.
In Gaza, ‘We Have to Do the Hard Work of Looking at Context’
“We have to understand…why these things happen. Otherwise, we have no basis to figure out a strategy to stop the violence on all sides.”
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In Hours of Israel/Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You’ll Seldom Hear: ‘Ceasefire’
As casualties in Gaza mount, most TV news outlets have paid scant attention to the growing calls for a ceasefire.
As Skies Turn Orange, Media Still Hesitate to Mention What’s Changing Climate
On US TV news, viewers were more likely to hear climate denial than the connection between fossil fuel consumption and worsening wildfires.
NYT’s Anti-Trans Bias—by the Numbers
The New York Times used its front-page coverage primarily to wonder whether trans people’s rights and access to healthcare have gone too far.
Who Gets to Talk About How Police Need to Change?
The New York Times leaned heavily on official sources when reporting on policing policy—giving the biggest platform to the targets of reform.
Tyre Nichols Was One of Too Many
News outlets treat cases like Tyre Nichols’ as isolated incidents, lavishing short-term attention that makes the chronic seem exceptional.
