‘Woke Capital’ Isn’t Real—but Conservative Fearmongering Is
The Republican Party is looking toward a rebranding where it can channel anti-business rage toward standing athwart social progress on race, gender and sexuality.
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Journalists Praising Psaki Should Remember: Spin Doctors Are Not on Your Side
The fawning coverage of Jen Psaki’s performance suggests some in the press have forgotten that press secretaries at the highest levels of government are not friends of free discourse.
Covering School Reopening, Chicago Papers Pit Unions Against Parents
Chicago papers are framing a thorny public health problem requiring participation and transparency as a dispute between bad-actor unions and educators, parents and children.
Ritchie Torres: The AOC Alternative Who Isn’t
Despite the media hype, Ritchie Torres not joining AOC’s Squad is not a case of a fellow progressive challenging the group’s pro-Palestine position, but rather a politician considerably to their right declaring that he is much more at home with the Democratic establishment.
Socialists Denounced as Foes and Tools of Real Estate Industry
The idea that DSA members are at the same time both tools and enemies of real estate interests is a frustrating and confounding contradiction,
NYT Cheerleads School Reopening as Covid Spikes
New York’s mayor’s dubious plan to reopen schools has found the New York Times to be its best form of public relations.
Critics of Canceling Student Debt Aren’t Afraid It Won’t Work—They’re Afraid It Will
Canceling student debt doesn’t negate other policies that would benefit blue-collar workers or the unemployed.
NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
NPR gave readers a variety of viewpoints, giving the readers the choice of which set of facts they want to accept as true.
Panic Over ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Another Example of Right-Wing Projection
The right is telling its base: Yes, we will make liberal professors scared, we will get them fired and use “cancel culture” to suppress speech and academic inquiry we find distasteful or dangerous.
Teachers Left Out of School Reopening Discussion—Even on the Left
Coverage of the issue of reopening schools downplays the risk faced by teachers and other adult staffers, and far too often ignores education unions as sources.
Corporate Media Push Biden Toward an Issue-Free ‘Patriotism’
A victory lap for the corporate press and the Democratic establishment against the party’s left flank.
Distorting Facts to Blame the Left for Antisemitism
In the face of antisemitic violence from the right, media have looked for instances of liberals or leftists saying unsavory things as a kind of partisan balance.
Media Praise Biden’s ‘Centrist Coalition’ for Steering Clear of ‘Progressive Demands’
A victory lap for the corporate press and the Democratic establishment against the party’s left flank.
Polls Favor Biden: Is It Different This Time?
This is a time for media to focus less on fluctuations in polling data and more on the reasons why citizens should cast their votes.
Trump’s Tantrum Against TikTok Is No Laughing Matter
Trump’s use of the power of the federal government to punish media outlets he perceives as having crossed him is part of a disturbing pattern of contempt for the First Amendment’s protection of the press.
Photographers Grapple With ‘Informed Consent’ in Uprising
A Photo Bill of Right’s language about how photographers should use “informed consent,” especially in the context of the current protests against police brutality, has caused a stir among journalists.
Writers Guild East Leading Charge to Take Cops Out of Labor
The demand to expel police unions from mainstream labor organizations was once a fringe demand. Now, in the wake of the ongoing Black Lives Matter uprising, the demand is taking center stage in labor news, and the Writers Guild of America East—which has been proactive in organizing new media newsrooms—is leading the charge to […]
Writers Leave UAW, but Pledge to Keep Fighting for Freelancers’ Rights
The National Writers Union’s divorce from the UAW raises concerns about how to advance labor rights in the media industry, which is notorious for its reliance on freelancers.
Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers
Many outlets are failing to reach out to unions representing the workers who will have to incur risks by entering physical school spaces if reopening happens too hastily.
Missing the Context of De Blasio’s ‘Jewish Community’ Tweet
Right-wing agitators in corporate media used New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s poorly worded tweet to advance the theory that, alongside the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter and constant antisemitic hate from the Trumpian right, a liberal like de Blasio was similarly an enemy of the Jews.
