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A segment on Israel killing 17 Gaza protesters illustrates how NPR consistently deflects blame for Israeli violence—either shifting blame onto Palestinian victims or dispersing it through false parity.
For the New York Times, the US is always lagging behind the Russian menace. Previously, the Times has told us how America was losing the “scramble for the Arctic” and falling behind in election-meddling. Now it’s in the realms of cyber and nuclear war that the Times sees dangerous gaps.
Absent documented evidence of who exactly funds the group, why should media not assume—based on its connections to the government and cartoonishly pro–bin Salman line—that the Arabia Foundation is a front group for the government?
What use is having a “liberal” cable network if it remains silent on the major issues facing the left? As FAIR noted in January (FAIR.org, 1/8/17), MSNBC’s coverage of the US-assisted bombing and siege of Yemen is virtually nonexistent. In the year 2017, MSNBC ran only one segment that focused on the US’s role in […]
When reporters refer to children or teenagers as “juveniles,” this works to criminalize and dehumanize a distinction—being a child—we would otherwise view in a sympathetic light.
It’s notable—and uniquely sketchy—when the Washington Post not only uses prime media real estate to uncritically hype Amazon’s primary corporate sales pitch, but does so while failing to disclose that Amazon’s CEO is the paper’s boss.
One of the most effective rhetorical tools in normalizing massive military budgets is to treat spending billions–and sometimes trillions—of dollars as something one has to do in order to be “modern.”
For the New York Times, the US is always lagging behind the Russian menace. Previously, the Times has told us how America was losing the “scramble for the Arctic” and falling behind in election-meddling. Now it’s in the realms of cyber and nuclear war that the Times sees dangerous gaps.
Save for one two-minute throwaway report from daytime show Velshi and Ruhle, MSNBC hasn’t dedicated a single segment to the West Virginia teachers strike—despite the strike’s unprecedented size and scope, which garnered major coverage from major outlets.
The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. The case of Ohio Deputy Richard Scarborough shooting and killing 16-year-old Joseph Haynes inside a courthouse checked off nearly all the pro-police propaganda tropes:
New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet—likely the most influential gatekeeper in all of media—told Times staffers in a closed-door meeting last December that the paper of record was “pro-capitalism.”
How did a tax cut that mainly benefits a small group of top earners become broadly popular? One reason is the nonstop deluge of stories over the past two months, cheerleading alleged “tax cut bonuses” from large corporations.
The issue isn’t “free speech” or the problems with “PC” online culture; it’s simply the pundit class protecting its own.
When New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane wrote an essay about the CIA’s alleged attempt to recruit him, two clauses stand out for their confident attribution of benevolent motives to US foreign policy.
It’s hard to think of a better illustration of the concept of cognitive dissonance than the Washington Post unironically referring to Mike Pence as a “superhero” in an article about the dangers of propaganda.
The marks of the media’s function as PR surrogate for police were all over a Pittsburgh CBS affiliate’s gratuitous, over-the-top hit piece on reformer Judge Mik Pappas.
Statements about runaway inequality must be nuance-trolled to death, lest readers be “misled” by statements that the media outlets themselves agree are true.
Max Boot’s hiring by the Washington Post goes to show, again, that the most certain way to move up in the media pundit universe is to consistently echo US national security orthodoxy—without pause or regret.
The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder.
Lamenting a “lack of American leadership” is a time-honored Serious Person cliche for those operating at major US papers, and one Washington Post deputy editorial page editor Jackson Diehl phoned in Sunday.
