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Crediting Xenophobia—Rather Than Organizing—With Raising Workers’ Wages
It’s not really surprising that the Economist chose to focus on immigration policy rather than minimum wage regulations as an explanation for pay increases. Corporate media tend to be critical of calls to lift the wage floor, often citing exaggerated claims about unemployment.
Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal Vindicates His Critics in the Press
For journalists who have covered Andrew Cuomo’s tumultuous governorship, the recent revelations are a return from the adoring media frenzy of a year ago to the Cuomo they remember: a corrupt bully who perhaps embodied the Trumpian spirit as much as anyone else in power today.
Celine McNicholas and Joanne Doroshow on Forced Arbitration, Kate Bronfrenbrenner on NLRB
We get some background on forced arbitration and why it matters from previous CounterSpin conversations–plus we talked about the Trump-era NLRB while it was happening.
Open Letter to John Mulholland, US editor of The Guardian
The Guardian must make clear that its writers have the freedom to comment critically on Israel without suffering career consequences.
‘Washington Has Been Asking the Wrong Question on North Korea’
“We need to shift our priorities now, from war to human needs. And in the case of Korea, a peace agreement would actually allow all parties to do that, so that all sides can start to reduce their arms.”
‘If Our Goal Is to Stop Killing Afghans, We’re Going About It All Wrong’
“There really isn’t any basis to say that continuing this war has any connection to protecting people in this country, to keeping Americans safe. There is no military solution to terrorism.”
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CounterSpin, the weekly radio show of FAIR, provides a critical exposé of the corporate news. Produced and hosted by Janine Jackson it is heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations. The current show, back archives and transcripts are available online.
feel like we’re now in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind phase of the Cuomo/media story, in which all the memories of fawning media coverage of Cuomo are wiped from our brains & replaced with artificial memories of Cuomo supposedly always facing tough media scrutiny
No state has an intrinsic “right to exist.” As international relations scholar Scott Burchill points out, there is no abstract “right to exist” in international law, or in “any serious theory of international relations.” @FAIRmediawatch
https://mronline.org/2021/02/16/states-have-no-inherent-right-to-exist-but-its-a-media-fixation-on-israel-palestine/
My latest for @FAIRmediawatch looks at the use of the phrase “right to exist” in #media coverage of #Palestine-#Israel https://fair.org/home/states-have-no-inherent-right-to-exist-but-its-a-media-fixation-on-israel-palestine/
In #Ecuador outgoing President Moreno's cabinet secretary resigned. In August, this goon publicly threatened all Correaist candidates with arrest. See my latest for @FAIRmediawatch
Why do you suppose @reuters , @nytimes etc "miss" stuff like that?
https://fair.org/home/ignoring-repression-and-dirty-tricks-in-coverage-of-ecuadors-election/ https://twitter.com/juanseroldan/status/1362913632217141251
Hoy presenté mi renuncia al Presidente de la República:
FAIR Studies
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.
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.
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