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Ezra Young on Supreme Court LGBT Ruling
A historic Supreme Court ruling declared that Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 does in fact make it illegal for employers to discriminate against a worker because of their sexual orientation or their transgender status.
‘Immunity Shouldn’t Be Part of the Conversation’
“Guess what won’t instill consumer confidence? A law that immunizes businesses if they don’t do what’s right to keep people safe. Why, in Heaven’s name, would I decide to go back to restaurants and movie theaters if they have no incentive to do the right thing to keep me safe?”
Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run
In rehabilitating Sergio Moro as a “whistleblower,” corporate journalists hide their own role in shamelessly promoting the Washington-backed lawfare operation that ousted Brazil’s first female president, and installed a neo-fascist.
‘We Should Be Committed to Decriminalizing if We Want to Help Communities of Color’
“I think this bill really does fail to imagine what public safety could look like. That’s our biggest problem with it. They’re not listening to people on the ground.”
‘Trump Judges Are Showing Just How Extreme They Are’
“What we see from President Trump’s nominees to these powerful courts of appeals and the Supreme Court is a consistent right-wing ideology, frankly going further even than some Reagan and Bush appointees.”
‘To Tell Stories of Communities That Are Authentic and Genuine, You Have to Have a Conversation’
“It does make sense that for the people who are trying to amplify the voices of people who are resisting police violence, that the police might not be too happy about that.”
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FAIR Studies
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.
Debate Moderators Frame Questions to Define Acceptable Politics
Media debate hosts use their platform less to inform voters in an even-handed way than to define which positions—and candidates—are acceptable, and which are not.
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.
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.
