Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as ‘Confederate Flag Incident’
The casual media observer was led to believe that a Georgia couple received lengthy prison sentences for simply showing up to a child’s birthday party waving flags.
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Downplaying US Contribution to Potential Yemen Famine
Missing from most reports on threat of famine in Yemen’s is the role of the United States and its ally Saudi Arabia—whose two-year-long siege and bombing have left the country in ruins.
NPR Spins Trump’s ‘Restrained’ Foreign Policy—Ignoring Threats, Bans and Escalation
Things like the total colonization of Palestine, increased tensions with Iran, further bombing and starving of Yemeni civilians and veiled threats to Mexico don’t really register on NPR’s “restraint” radar.
ACTION ALERT: WaPo’s Post Live Series Is a Love Letter to Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Please contact the Washington Post and urge it to stop allowing corporations to sponsor events when they have a direct financial interest in the subject.
NYT: Unlike Russian Wars, US Wars ‘Promote Freedom and Democracy’
Aghast that the president could equate the moral worth of the United States with that of the dastardly Russians, the New York Times’ editorial board published a flag-waving scolding called “Blaming America First.”
On Iran, SPLC’s ‘Extremist’ Is NPR’s ‘Expert’
NPR’s report on Iran turned for analysis to what the SPLC describes as “a conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States.”
How Corporate Media Paved the Way for Trump’s Muslim Ban
while it’s important to lay primary blame for the Muslim travel ban at the feet of the man who signed it, years of Islamophobic coverage in corporate media—right-wing, centrist and “liberal”—laid the propaganda groundwork to get us here.
30 Washington Post Articles on Gorsuch’s Nomination—Not a Single One Opposed
Of the 30 items published on Gorsuch since Trump’s announcement, 17 could be construed as neutral and 13 were explicitly positive. None openly opposed Gorsuch or leveled criticisms beyond mild qualifiers:
ACTION ALERT: Tell CNN to Stop Using Trump Propaganda Term ‘Terror-Prone Countries’
Please contact CNN and tell the network to stop adopting the Trump administration’s “terror-prone” label as its own description of the countries targeted by Trump’s immigration order.
NPR’s No-‘Lie’ Policy and the Limits of Impartiality in the Trump Era
In the age of Trump and his unprecedentedly loose relationship with reality, NPR’s strict adherence to “both sides” journalism does a great disservice to their listeners—to say nothing of the truth.
David Brooks’ Anti-PC Screed: Women’s March Edition
For the tenth time in as many months, the New York Times let David Brooks take a current issue—in this case, the worldwide Women’s March—and jam it into his boilerplate grievance against what he perceives as ineffectual, harmful “identity politics.”
Manning Sentence Commuted—No Thanks to Corporate Media Opinion
Before President Barack Obama’s surprise commutation, major print media almost completely ignored Chelsea Manning’s pleas for clemency.
WaPo, Organ of Extreme Center, Calls MLK ‘True Conservative’
Because words and history evidently have no meaning, the Washington Post decided to honor civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. by painting him as a “true conservative.”
In Absence of Evidence, Media Evoke ISIS in Jerusalem Attack
As a general rule, media outlets should not let the unilateral, unsubstantiated and self-serving claims of political leaders dictate how they frame such politically charged incidents.
US Government Tries and Fails to Play Media Critic on RT
A sizable chunk of the report that was supposed to silence skeptics of the government’s claims of Russian involvement in political hacking was an Intro to Marketing-style powerpoint on a modestly funded foreign cable channel.
WaPo Spreading Own Falsehoods Shows Real Power of Fake News
A “fake news phenomenon” that cannot, by definition, include mainstream media is a power-serving tautology that shields US corporate media from scrutiny and encourages citizens to simply trust some outlets (we’ll tell you which ones) rather than think critically.
Media Fell for Nazi-Manufactured ‘White Genocide’ Scandal
Much like George Hamilton is famous for being famous, “Twitter backlash” stories are often controversial for being controversial.
Columnist Thought Syria Conflict Worth Murdering Over—but Not Worth Writing About
Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman is doubling-down on his celebratory-but-not-celebratory-but-obviously-celebratory take on the December 19 murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov by an off-duty Turkish police officer.
Vox’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest, Explained
While Vox coverage of its corporate parents, siblings and cousins isn’t uniformly positive, all too often it is. Even in stories that aren’t more or less verbatim PR copy, disclosures ought to be mandatory—especially when it’s as direct as covering Comcast and NBC corporate.
Daily Kos Founder Gleefully Celebrates Coal Miners Losing Health Insurance
In the wake of this loss, some of the more hardcore Clinton partisans have chosen, in lieu of self-examination and internal criticism, to simply lash out at the voters they failed to win over.
