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CBS News’ 60 Minutes (11/19/17) took a deep dive into the humanitarian crisis in Yemen without once mentioning the direct role the United States plays in creating, perpetuating and prolonging a crisis that’s left over 10,000 civilians dead, 2 million displaced and an estimated 1 million with cholera.
Not only is all blood taken from his words, but the quotes highlighted seem handpicked precisely to ameliorate the guilt of the Washington Post’s more conservative white readers in the hackiest manner possible.
Using MEK images to represent unrest in Iran is like a Chinese outlet using images of a Westboro Baptist Church protest in a story about Occupy Wall Street, because both oppose the US government.
President Trump’s far-right immigration policies have US corporate media reaching to the white nationalist fringes of the faux-think tank world to provide “both sides” coverage on the topic.
Leading the pack in the “do something” insta-consensus on Iran protests was the right-wing pro-Israel think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
The New York Times has some 100 percent uncut pro-US ideology to push under the guise of criticizing Trump, and no amount of basic historical facts will get in its way.
Why arbitrarily audit a handful of the 164 countries that didn’t support the US, rather than characterize their broader makeup?
Now that the GOP tax bill has exposed “deficit concerns” by congressional Republicans as an empty marketing ploy, will those in the media who pushed the Deficit Doom narrative during the early Obama years admit they were wrong?
The Washington Post’s proto-obituary sets the standard for all other flattering, ahistorical profiles of the senator that will invariably come down the pipe.
Should the New York Times have disclosed that the author of a piece about government propaganda runs a group overwhelmingly funded by the US government?
By leading with warnings of a “Middle East on edge,” the media double down on dangerous stereotypes, marginalize legitimate frustration and resistance, and obfuscate history in favor of the ever-convenient, shoulder-shrugging, “they’ll just never get along” narrative.
What makes Trump’s endorsement news—what justifies the entire reporting of the story—is that Trump is backing someone accused by multiple people, backed by years of circumstantial evidence, of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
A review of 15 opinion pieces featured in the Washington Post shows voices even remotely sympathetic to the government of President Nicolás Maduro are omitted entirely.
It’s unsurprising that under Trump, national security investigations are politicized to advance a hawkish policy agenda. What’s perhaps more shocking is how many major media outlets took the bait.
60 Minutes did not once mention the direct role the United States played in creating, perpetuating and prolonging a crisis that’s left over 10,000 civilians dead.
For many in the Western press, de facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman’s self-serving power grab is the action of a bold “reformer,” a roguish bad boy doing the messy but essential work of “reforming” the kingdom.
A review of New York Times articles, columns, op-eds and reports shows a clear emphasis on documenting and condemning perceived suppression of conservative voices at American universities,
News managers feel the need to highlight, with little if any criticism or context, pro-Trump extremists who’ve been emboldened by his campaign and subsequent election.
Copy-and-pasting a corporation’s claims for its own economic impact—when it has every incentive to hype these numbers—is sloppy enough, but doing so for a corporation whose CEO is also your CEO is a clear conflict of interest.
Corporate media have a long history of lamenting wars they themselves helped sell the American public, but it’s rare so many wars and so much hypocrisy are distilled into one editorial.
