Corporate Media Largely Silent on Trump’s Civilian Death Toll in Iraq
The expulsion of ISIS from Mosul by the US-led coalition received coverage, but the US role in killing civilians was uniformly ignored.
Adam Johnson
While Attacks in Israel Make Headlines, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Ignored
The recent acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza—on top of the routine humanitarian crisis that defines everyday existence there—has gotten sparse coverage in US media over the past three weeks.
Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US
The eagerness of US media to disproportionately cover and empathize with detained protesters in Russia, while either ignoring or toeing the government’s line when it comes to mass arrests stateside, speaks to the nationalistic blinders at work.
After 1,379 Days, NYT Corrects Bogus Claim Iran ‘Sponsored’ 9/11
The New York Times maintained for more than three years that the government of Iran “sponsored” the September 11, 2001, attacks. The belated correction, issued late Wednesday night on two widely spaced articles on the topic, unceremoniously noted that Iran did not, in fact, help commit the 9/11 attacks.
Saudi Arms Deal Stories Omitted Who the Weapons Would Be Killing
The vast majority of reports on Trump’s Saudi arms deal omitted a key piece of context—namely, whom the weapons will be used to kill.
As Democratic Voters Shift Left, ‘Liberal Media’ Keep Shifting Right
In the past few years, the Democratic Party’s rank and file has shifted left on major issues. In contrast, nominally liberal media—or major media whose editorial line is reliably pro-Democratic—have drifted rightward.
After US-Backed Bombing Sparks Famine in Yemen, WaPo Editor Insists ‘US Not the Problem’
Washington Post deputy editorial page editor Jackson Diehl took a massive, human rights-violating catastrophe—the US-assisted Saudi bombing of Yemen for the past two-and-a-half years, and the massive famine it’s caused—and somehow turned it into a write-up on how good and noble the United States is.
Syria the Latest Case of US ‘Stumbling’ Into War
One of the most common tropes in US media is that the US military always goes to war reluctantly—and, if there are negative consequences, like civilian deaths, it’s simply a matter of bumbling around without much plan or purpose.
Media Use Attack on Mosque to Smear Mosque
CNN, the New York Times, Daily Mail and News.com.au all decided to use last night’s horrific attack on London’s Finsbury Park Mosque welfare center as a chance to litigate the mosque’s past behavior.
Action Alert: With Sleazy Innuendo, NYT Lays Virginia Attack at Bernie Sanders’ Feet
The New York Times started with a false premise and patched together a dodgy piece of innuendo and guilt-by-association in order to place the blame for a shooting in Virginia on “the most ardent supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders.”
Media Help Republicans Gut Obamacare Behind Closed Doors
Senate Republicans have been quietly working to eliminate Obamacare while avoiding media attention—and major papers and television news are playing along.
On 50th Anniversary of Israeli Occupation, Palestinian Opinions Largely Ignored
In their respective opinion pieces analyzing the Six-Day War and its subsequent effect on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, major US media have favored Israeli and pro-Israel American voices at the expense of Palestinians by a wide margin.
In a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump About Climate Change
Given the opportunity over the past four months of his presidency to ask Trump a question on climate change, no outlet has bothered to bring up the topic at all.
NYT, Reviewing Trump’s ‘100 Days,’ Shows Folly of ‘Both Sides’ Journalism
If reporters, like historians, can find the bright side of genocide, then the “both sides” ethos knows no bounds.
WaPo’s Laziest Columnist Calls Protesters ‘Fascists,’ Equates Them to Manchester Bomber
For Richard Cohen, the Middlebury protestors are the real fascists. Not the person who’s dedicated his life to normalizing eugenics; he is a mere “conservative,” posing “controversial” questions.
WaPo Provides Platform for Calls to Imprison WaPo Sources
In the past weeks, two Washington Post columnists have joined the Post editorial board in calling for Post sources to be jailed—this time in regard to the Post’s major scoop about President Donald Trump leaking classified intelligence to Russian diplomats.
Arms Deal Stories Omit War Crimes Arms Will Be Used For
The vast majority of the reports on the Trump/Saudi arms deal omitted a rather key piece of context—namely, whom the weapons will be used to kill.
Media to Trump: Don’t Cozy Up to Dictators—Unless They’re the Right Dictators
Nice words to the wrong dictators unleash a torrent of outrage from our pundit class. Nice words to the right dictators—along with billions in military hardware, which unlike nice words will be used to continue to slaughter residents of a neighboring country and suppress domestic dissent–result in uniform silence.
Media Are Literally Copy-and-Pasting ICE Press Releases
“Copy-and-pasting press releases” is typically used as a term of art to indicate that media are mindlessly repeating a corporate or government line. But recent coverage of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “gang raids” across the country has various outlets literally copy-and-pasting ICE’s press releases.
Lockheed Martin–Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
FAIR has noted 30 media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system or its underlying value proposition in US media. Omitted from all these CSIS media appearances, however, is that one of CSIS’s top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD’s primary contractor.
