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Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua
Misleading and inaccurate reports about Nicaraguan beef could have drastic consequences for that country when it is already struggling to deal with US sanctions, the pandemic and the aftermath of two damaging hurricanes.
Liliana Segura on Trump’s Execution Spree, Gaurav Laroia on Ajit Pai’s FCC
As with many aspects of his presidency, the execution spree is both Trump being especially gruesome, and his simply making use of a gruesome machinery he certainly didn’t create.
‘Emancipation Never Really Came to Agriculture’
“We say, on the one hand, that they’re essential; we would like to compel them to go to work so that the rest of us could have the comfort of still ordering in our T-bone steaks and what have you. But we don’t pay these people in a way that reflects how essential they are.”
Critics of Canceling Student Debt Aren’t Afraid It Won’t Work—They’re Afraid It Will
Canceling student debt doesn’t negate other policies that would benefit blue-collar workers or the unemployed.
When an Official Enemy Is Assassinated, Corporate Media Roll Out the Pretexts
Even those accusations that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh took part in a now-defunct weapons program are largely based on fabricated evidence.
‘The Ones With the Most Risk Are the Ones We’re Most Ill-Prepared to Reach with the Vaccine’
‘We’ve had decades-long underfunding of state and local public health departments, and just myopic funding cuts for pandemic preparedness. And this hampers coordinated access, and leaves us ill-prepared to reach the very populations that are the most affected by this virus.”
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"US corporate journalists function exactly the way one would expect state propagandists would, implicitly smearing victims from official enemy states as somehow deserving of attack." https://fair.org/home/when-an-official-enemy-is-assassinated-corporate-media-roll-out-the-pretexts/ via @FAIRmediawatch #Iran #Fakhrizadeh #USimperialism
BIDEN WH STAFF SO FAR:
➡️Venture capital executive (@RonaldKlain).
➡️Former pharmaceutical, insurance lobbyist (Steve Ricchetti).
➡️Top Dem recipient of Big Oil $ (@cedricrichmond).
➡️Co-founder of firm that represents pharma & private equity (@jomalleydillon).
“NPR makes the fight against racist voter suppression seem like hyperbolic partisanship when placed next to Trump’s refusal. Trump is refusing to concede because he doesn’t like the outcome. Abrams’ protests two years ago were about a systemic wrong” https://fair.org/home/nprs-shameful-comparison-of-stacey-abrams-to-donald-trump/
@JoshC0301 I interviewed @AlanRMacLeod of @FAIRmediawatch about corporate media:
https://youtu.be/N8xWMnq2UUE
FAIR Studies
Young Voices Largely Missing in Election Coverage
Despite the increase of young people planning to vote, corporate media have largely forgotten about them in the weeks leading up to the election.
Activist Voices Missing From Corporate Coverage of Uprisings
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.
Chinese ‘Imperialism’ in Hong Kong Concerns US Media; Puerto Rican, Palestinian Colonies, Not So Much
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.
In Pandemic, Sunday Shows Centered Official Voices, Sidelined Independent Health Experts
On the networks’ Sunday morning political talk shows, which play an important role in setting agendas for national political debate, the voices asked to participate were overwhelmingly the usual narrow cast of Beltway actors, with independent public health experts playing a marginal role, and public interest voices almost entirely sidelined.
As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
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