LA Times Frames School Board Melee as Clash of Protesters, Not Far-Right Attack
The LA Times downplayed the fact that outside far-right activists have been driving much of the hostility.
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Southern Discomfort: Attacks on Freedom Need Condemnation
These cases haven’t received an outcry from major newspaper editorial boards on their violation of constitutional rights.
Montana TikTok Ban a Sign of Intensified Cold War With China
Corporate anti-competitive power and Cold War fears lead the government to contemplate censoring media now available to 80 million Americans.
The Character Assassination of San Francisco
The media narrative holds that permissive policies protecting the homeless have allowed a zombie army of criminals to control San Francisco.
DeSantis’ Anti-Press Bills Seem Dead, but Don’t Celebrate Yet
The right’s broad agenda still includes a decimation of media outlets that spotlight corporate and governmental misdeeds.
Media Crime Hype Helps Roll Back Reforms
Actual data about life and death in jails is not enough to move New York’s governor, but the sensationalism about crime is enough.
Dowd’s Newsroom Nostalgia Is Management Propaganda
Maureen Dowd used her column space to attack the New York Times union for pushing for more remote and hybrid work,
Calling Bud Light Saga a ‘Controversy’ Falls Flat
A transgender woman promoted a product and now, judging by the tabloid frenzy, it’s a cultural schism that has ripped apart a nation.
Carlson Out for Now, but Will Live to Hate Another Day
The Dominion texts exposed Tucker Carlson for who he is, a pompous, rich media elitist who gives not one single damn about MAGA voters.
Fox Settlement Shows Press Freedom Isn’t Incompatible With Accountability
Fox has decided to part with the equivalent of the gross domestic product of Samoa in order to keep its dirty laundry out of the public eye.
Media’s Lab Leak Theorists See Spies, Not Scientists, as Arbiters of Science
The Wall Street Journal (2/26/23) broke the news that classified documents show the US Energy Department believes Covid emerged from a lab leak in China, which sent shockwaves through the rest of the media. Such a statement by the Energy Department “would be significant despite the fact that, as the report said, the agency […]
Murdoch Uses Nashville to Stoke Anti-Trans Hate
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is using Hale’s transgender identity to ratchet up its campaign against transgender people.
20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame
On the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the New York Times says “it’s complicated” to a disaster it can’t admit it helped create.
Wrath at Khan: Right Sets Sights at FTC for Regulating Tech
Republicans portray themselves as defending Twitter against a partisan inquisition, but the right has always stood up for corporate giants.
A Taste of What’s in Store if Right-Wing Zealots Get Green Light to Sue Media
This is the kind of censorship the right hopes will be standard practice if the Supreme Court implements its anti-press agenda.
DeSantis’ War on Florida’s Press Is Designed to Hit Nationwide
DeSantis is actively trying to legally neuter the free press, in the same way he is trying to destroy academic freedom in his own state.
NYT Trans Letter a Fight for Media Democracy
The push for the New York Times to keep a skeptical eye on the agenda of resisters of social progress isn’t censorship or anti-free speech.
As Right Media Hail DeSantis as ‘Woke’ Killer, Centrists Admire His Brand
Centrist media are in no way hammering DeSantis with the same vigor that their right-wing counterpoints are defending him.
WaPo Feeds Denial With False Claims About Overcounting Covid Deaths
Medical commentator Leana Wen wants us to believe that society has overcounted Covid deaths and hospitalizations.
Israel’s Hard-Right Turn Fails to Raise Alarm in US Media
US press coverage has had trouble recognizing that the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu is anything other than business as usual.
