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AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of ‘Objectivity’
Emily Wilder had thought she’d hit it big. After interning at the Arizona Republic, she earned a newsroom assistant job at the Phoenix bureau of the Associated Press, starting May 3. It wouldn’t last long. Several right-wing organizations, including the Federalist (5/19/21) and Washington Free Beacon (5/18/21) outlets, attacked the news service over Wilder’s […]
The New Podcast Oligopoly
With Liberty, Spotify and public radio (via NPR and PRX) in the drivers seat, and Amazon, Apple and the New York Times not far behind, the new podcast oligopoly has arrived, and monopoly is on the horizon.
Preston Mitchum on Roe and Reproductive Justice, Steven Rosenfeld on Arizona Audit
Who’s speaking for the actual majority of US citizens who support a person’s right to determine whether and when to have a child?
Conservative Jewish Journalists Use False Claims of Censorship to Try to Silence Critics
The signers hold up robust Jewish debate as their guiding tradition, when what they really want is for their ideas to go unchallenged in the marketplace of ideas.
‘We Need to Stop Taking Employers’ Viewpoint as Gospel’
“They’re complaining about unemployment benefits that they claim are too generous…. It’s an intuitive reaction by business owners who don’t want to pay their employees more.”
Israel’s War Against Press Turns More Literal
Israel’s attack on two prominent news agencies is a sign that it seeks to stifle information coming out of Gaza, but also, as its political center of gravity moves sharply to the right, a sign that the nation is at war not just with its occupied population, but with the notion of a free society itself.
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Here's a fairly long piece (with many source links) about the podcasting industry's apparent trend towards forming oligopolies. The author believes Liberty Media is Spotify's real rival, not Apple.
https://fair.org/home/the-new-podcast-oligopoly/
@IronicProfessor @FAIRmediawatch There’s an amazing stat in the McChesney article that the FAIR report links to: The US govt. spends billions annually on Pentagon PR alone (aka war propaganda). That’s several times what it spends on public media.
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Sunday Shows Hit Snooze on Climate Alarm
If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, journalists have to move beyond debating its existence or importance, and start looking at both its causes—very concretely, looking at culprits—and its solutions.
Leading Papers Talked Up Establishment’s Senate Candidates
Democrats celebrated dual Georgia Senate race victories this week, which gives them, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaker vote, a bare majority in the Senate. But not all Democrats are created equal, and the one-vote margin makes the politics of each individual in that majority more consequential. In 2020, several states witnessed competitive Democratic […]
Study of 2020 Debates Finds New Topics but Familiar Framing
A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates.
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.
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