…and Republicans has become bipartisan demands for action”—falsely suggesting a meeting of the minds between Johnson, the progressive Chicago mayor and a reactionary like Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. The…
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Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage
…rather than “assaults.” Adam Johnson (FAIR.org, 4/9/18) explains that “clash” is “a reporter’s best friend when they want to describe violence without offending anyone in power—in the words of George…
Trump’s Idling Plane Got More TV Coverage Than Biden Cutting Healthcare for 15 Million
…from the rolls, reversing the record-low uninsured rate reached early last year. But if you were watching TV news, you might have missed it. Adam Johnson, a former FAIR contributor…
‘Media and Government Excuses Are Basically Intertwined’
…Schwarz at the Intercept, Derek Seidman at Truthout, also Marjorie Cohn, Adam Johnson at Real News—about how these visible architects of the Iraq War, in government, but also in think…
20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame
…to accept its repeated and forceful denials that it had any secret banned weaponry. ‘Carried and amplified’ Adam Johnson (Real News Network, 3/17/23): “Not only have none of the hawks…
Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
Subscribe: RSS Patrice Lumumba, 1960 (photo: Harry Pot) This week on CounterSpin: US media elites have gotten comfy with what writer Adam Johnson calls their “wall calendar version”…
Calling Putin ‘Hitler’ to Smear Diplomacy as ‘Appeasement’
…doing so would bring more Chamberlain analogies. Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi, cohosts of the Citations Needed podcast (10/9/19), point out that the emotionally manipulative and thought-terminating comparisons to Hitler…
Mass Shooters’ Most Common Trait—Their Gender—Gets Little Press Attention
…2016 massacre (Rolling Stone, 6/13/16). Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza had a Word document on his computer explaining “why females are inherently selfish” (New Yorker, 3/10/14). University of California shooter…
