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Latinx Voting Surge Boosted Biden’s Victory—but That’s Not the Story Corporate Media Want to Tell
The fact that in a few places in Texas and Florida, the Latinx vote appeared to move toward the right hardly negates the fact that the overall Latinx vote grew tremendously, and those votes overall went by large margins to the Democrats.
‘Media Sources in the Democratic Party Tend to Be More Right-Wing’
“It’s the false balance that is putting us into a dangerous position, because you don’t want to give any sort of balance to the autocratic side here.”
Crying Wolf on Election Fraud Is OK at NYT—if Targets Are Official Enemies
For the New York Times, crying election fraud then staging a coup is bad, and just like what dictators do—unless it is the US making dubious claims of electoral fraud against official enemies, in which case it is an honorable practice.
Media’s Messaging Debate Eclipses Policies—and the Crises They Address
In coverage of Democratic positions on healthcare and climate change, the overwhelming emphasis was on electoral strategy, and not on the problems these policy proposals were designed to solve.
Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure, Murtaza Hussain on Trump’s War on Yemen
The coronavirus crisis highlights the urgent need to reimagine our vaccine infrastructure.
‘We Basically Made Recovery Much, Much Harder Than It Has to Be’
“Centering workers in a genuine recovery, and really trying to rebuild economic security, it’s going to take movement on a bunch of fronts.”
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A good & important point here: when the Right in South America make the same kinds of baseless allegations of election theft that the US Right is currently doing over 2020, the papers now treating Trump's claims with scepticism accept them at face value.
https://fair.org/home/crying-wolf-on-election-fraud-is-ok-at-nyt-if-targets-are-official-enemies/
why hasn't a single major Western media outlet told its readers that only 3% of Venezuelans back Juan Guaidó, and only 4% believe he tells the truth?
Could it be because it undermines their entire regime change narrative?
https://www.docdroid.net/PapnfyM/encuesta-meganalisis-mayo-2020-infome-publico-parte-1-de-2-pdf#page=14
"[F]or the @nytimes, crying election fraud then staging a coup is bad, & just like what dictators do—unless it is the 🇺🇸 making dubious claims of electoral fraud against official enemies, in which case it is an honorable practice."-@AlanRMacLeod https://fair.org/home/crying-wolf-on-election-fraud-is-ok-at-nyt-if-targets-are-official-enemies/
Also quite amazing to me that this latest from Reuters uncritically cites Mike “smooth transition to second Trump term” Pompeo. These thugs are never discredited while they are targeting foreign countries.
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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