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Distorting ‘Democracy’ in Venezuela Coverage
That corporate media manage to portray Juan Guaidó and his regime-change cohort as a “pro-democracy movement” is both a tragedy and a farce.
‘A Nice Guy, Everybody Loved Him’
After opening fire at worshipers celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Poway Synagogue near San Diego, California, 19-year-old John T. Earnest was arrested. Earnest killed one woman and injured three other worshippers before his semi-automatic weapon jammed and he fled the scene, calling 911 himself to report the shooting. The shooter published […]
Amin Husain on Decolonizing Museums, Nikole Hannah-Jones on School Resegregation
Cultural institutions are important sites of public conversation, but the public doesn’t have much say in who gets to lead that conversation, or the stories they tell.
‘Bernie Speaks’—and Politico Hears Deviations From Cold War Orthodoxy
It’s very possible that Bernie Sanders said something “startling” in the 51 episodes of Bernie Speaks–but if he did, Politico didn’t find it. Instead, the publication showed us its own failure to dislodge from the corporate media’s anti-Communist, neo-Cold War worldview.
‘How Does the US Compensate the World for the Damage It Has Done?’
“Democratically enacted changes by democratically elected governments, in the public interest, can be overruled by unelected panels of so-called experts at the behest of a corporation.”
‘Climate Change Is the Real Job Killer’
“It’s the best framework that we, in labor, have seen in a very long time for advancing workers’ rights. It sets a federal jobs guarantee for people who want to go to work fighting the climate crisis, and it also provides for what they call living wages, or family-supporting wages, in that jobs guarantee.”
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FAIR Studies
Establishment Media and the Green New Deal: New Wine in Old Bottles
While the resolution was a radical departure from politics as usual, most corporate media filtered coverage of the “Green New Deal” through the lens of conventional expectations.
Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela
A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period, zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took an anti–regime change or pro-Maduro/Chavista position.
Which Candidates Are Mentioned Most Often on TV News?
Democratic hopefuls’ TV news mentions track fairly closely with the candidates’ positions in the polls.
Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’
The “dictator” label is also a powerful cue, used by media to prime the reader to see a particular country or leader a certain way.
‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Why should only these groups—Muslim 95 percent of the time—“renounce violence,” but the US and its allies never have to?
