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In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights
Instead of centering trans voices in coverage of bills that target them, journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post have tended to cover the story as primarily one of political debate,
‘Hedge Fund Managers Bleed Companies of Their Capabilities’
“The money that the company spent on buying those outstanding shares in the stock buyback could have been used to develop new products, it could have been used for innovation, it could have been used to maintain and attract talent.”
‘We Need to Mobilize People Who Don’t Want to Pay Tucker Carlson’s Salary’
“A lot of the policies that have been put in place seem really backward; they take choice out of the hands of consumers—whether it’s choice for an internet connection, whether it’s a choice for the type of cable stations that you subscribe to—and they put them in the hands of these large companies, who have far too much control over the ways that we connect and communicate.”
If Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Is a ‘Non-Issue,’ Why Have Media Gone to Such Lengths to Silence Him?
If elite media were actually engaged in a serious reckoning with the racism of the US criminal justice system, they would cover the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse
Western corporate media overwhelmingly reserve the word “aggression” for official enemy nations—whether or not it’s warranted. In contrast, US behavior is almost never categorized as aggressive,
Tim Karr on Paying for Fox News Racism, Lynn Parramore on Hedge Funds vs. Green New Deal
Tucker Carlson spews harmful nonsense like it’s his job, which it is, and he gets some $10 million a year from it—but did you know that, if you have cable, you’re paying into that income?
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Yet another example of people being treated as the disquieting "other" by US corporate media. https://fair.org/home/in-media-framing-trans-kids-are-problems-to-be-solved-not-people-with-rights/
The journalists at @venanalysis have been on the ground in #Venezuela for nearly 20 years. They put together a nice thread on what AP left out of its inexcusably tardy expose
https://twitter.com/venanalysis/status/1387993768012419075
According to an @AP report, even US agencies have concluded that the "humanitarian aid" operation wasn't exactly driven by a desire to bring humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan people. Who knew? They could have just asked us and saved a lot of trouble
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-venezuela-business-b10bf3472db4a65066a7d0c6e629c7e5
2 years late, Josh Goodman of AP (very partially) exposed Trump's bullshit aid stunt of Feb 2019 that was really an attempt to oust Venezuela's democratically elected government.
@FAIRmediawatch allowed me to expose it in Feb 2019
THREAD
https://fair.org/home/facts-dont-interfere-with-propaganda-blitz-against-venezuelas-elected-president/
"....I think people who don’t watch the Tucker Carlson show don’t realize that, regardless, they’re still paying for Tucker Carlson’s salary."
https://fair.org/home/we-need-to-mobilize-people-who-dont-want-to-pay-tucker-carlsons-salary/
FAIR Studies
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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