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Lisa Gilbert on Lame Duck Trump, Dean Baker on Trickle-Down Economics
While we await the day that Trump’s face and voice are no longer at the top of every newscast, it ain’t over til it’s over. And harms he does as a lame duck are harms nonetheless.
‘That Loss of Privacy Is the Monopoly Price’
“They should be treated with skepticism; as much as we love their products, as much as we depend on them—and so many of us still do—it’s also healthy to cast a skeptical eye on them. And to recognize the problems that technology can’t solve.”
‘Freedom Is Blossoming’: After Dismembering a Journalist, Saudi Arabia Goes on a PR Spree
Since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman has been on a media charm offensive, trying to present one of the most repressive states in the world as a progressive, emerging country.
‘Our Government Needs to Protect Workers, Not Corporations’
“American workers are sick and dying and broke from this pandemic. So why on Earth would you suspend the very laws that are supposed to protect us?”
Both-Sidesing the Stimulus Bill
Corporate media tossed the long history of Mitch McConnell’s intransigence completely down the memory hole when negotiations began again in earnest in recent weeks.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Erases US Economic War Against Venezuela
Please remind the New York Times that as a US paper, it has an obligation to cover the effects of US government policy on countries like Venezuela.
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@bklynymk @ASNC20 @ULupae @haaretzcom Here's a media analysis piece from a few years ago on it
https://fair.org/extra/media-not-concerned-about-the-very-poor/
This was the best interview of 2020. https://fair.org/home/our-food-system-is-very-much-modeled-on-plantation-economics/?fbclid=IwAR2BJWg5q2OjKY3i-cdOIHXBWTJ5r_a__XSSd_71to0TE8-7odQNcfjTQRk
“And for God’s sake, stop writing about his unhinged tweets.”
FAIR: Lisa Gilbert on Lame Duck Trump, Dean Baker on Trickle-Down Economics - https://bit.ly/2WIj5uv
WHO WROTE THIS HEADLINE AND SUBHEAD?? They’re not just unspeakably and inappropriately snide and ideological, they don’t remotely reflect the story as written. Was this the work of a rogue, or a senior editor? Either way the reporters are owed an apology. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/politics/stimulus-2000.html
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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