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Deathly Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him
Covert plans for the state-sanctioned murder on British soil of an award-winning journalist should attract wall-to-wall media coverage.
‘It’s the Demeaning Treatment, but Also the Failure to Take Action’
“It is not too much to ask that we could have intersectional justice in the space where right now we have intersectional oppression.”
Lisa Graves on the Fight for the Post Office, Stevana Sims on Saving Anti-Racist Education
Though the Postal Service has always been a public good, its current leaders seem intent on driving it into the ground.
‘Crime Is Defined and Constructed by Police and Other Elite Interests’
“Over the course of the last hundred years, police have systematically organized to prevent progressive social change.”
Media Praise ‘Mavericks’ for Blocking Aid to American People
Corporate media disparaged attempts by left-leaning Democrats to stay the course on two bills as divisive behavior by fringe actors.
Chinese ‘Disinformation’ and US Propaganda
Western media’s latest anti-China crusade features unsubstantiated allegations of a Chinese disinformation campaign.
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Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal
Corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices.
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds
New York City’s two big tabloid dailies gave far more coverage to crime than to the affordable housing crisis in the past year.
TV News Coverage of Southern Border Lacks Refugee Sources, Historical Context
TV news coverage of the southern US border largely ignores the experiences and voices of those most impacted by the immigration system.
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 […]
