UN Tells Israel: Cease Fire; NYT Says: If You Want
The New York Times offered no rebuttal from any international law scholar to the US claim that the ceasefire resolution was “nonbinding.”
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March Against Genocide Isn’t News to New York Times
The New York Times apparently decided that the huge pro-Gaza protest on January 13 didn’t warrant a story,
NPR Report on Depleted Uranium Shells for Ukraine Was a One-Source Dud
One-source stories on a controversial story, where there is a long-running dispute about the use of DU weapons, are lazy journalism.
Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media
National media organizations didn’t see as remotely newsworthy a groundbreaking protest rally and march outside the White House.
Turning a San Francisco Recall Into Rout for Police Reform
San Francisco’s successful DA recall was portrayed as a watershed moment, with progressive voters turning against police reforms.
It May Not Be Sunny in Philadelphia, But the Town’s Not Burning Either
Most of the national reporting on protests of the latest police killing in Philadelphia was deliberately inflammatory and even frightening.
When It Comes to the Truth of Opinion Columns, It’s Reader Beware
The source for the “conspiracy theory” that Trump was blocking funding to the post office to prevent mail-in voting was…Donald Trump.
NYT Acknowledges Need for Economic Change—Without Crediting Those Who Would Bring It
A New York Times editorial delivers a blunt critique of neoliberal economics–not what Times readers have been used to seeing on its editorial pages.
US Jobless Rate Broke Depression-Era Record—but Most Media Missed It
Ignored by nearly all US news organizations, at least initially, was an explanation that the official unemployment rate was actually incorrect.
CNN’s Sanders Hit Piece Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
Election Focus 2020: The timing of this poorly sourced and poorly written story, appearing the day of a crucial candidates’ debate and days before the start of the actual primary season on a network that has been hostile to or dismissive of Sanders for years, is a journalistic outrage.
Failed ‘Coup’ a Fake Corporate News Story Designed to Trick Venezuelan Soldiers—and US Public
The April 30 coup by presidential poseur Juan Guaidó was a fraud, staged at the instigation of Washington in hopes that the Venezuelan people and rank-and-file troops would fall for the trick and think an actual coup was underway.
Corbyn Defied Media Rules by Linking UK Wars to Terrorism
There’s no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn’s contrarian stand on terrorism, laying much of the blame on Britain’s militarist foreign policy and intervention in Middle East conflicts, was critical in his surprisingly strong showing. Yet it got almost no mention in US news reports.
Trump in No Hurry to Staff ‘Enemy of the People’ Offices
Trump has been slow to staff the offices that reporters in both Washington bureaus and in newsrooms around the country depend on to get routine information about what government departments and agencies are doing.
Rather Than Exposing Propaganda, WaPo Shows How It’s Done
While thanks to the Washington Post’s grant of anonymity, PropOrNot’s hidden principals remained safe from inquiring reporters and Russian hackers alike, editors of sites named on its McCarthyite hit list quickly found themselves deluged with venomous calls and emails.
Ignoring the Pentagon’s Multi-Trillion-Dollar Accounting Error
Practically no corporate media in the US bothered to mention when the Pentagon’s inspector general this year issued a report blasting the US Army for misreporting $6.5 trillion (that’s not a typo; it’s trillion with a T) as its spending total for the 2015 fiscal year.
U.S. Media Duck Legality of Attacking Iran
SPECIAL SECTION: IRAN & WAR The drums of war beat ever louder as President Barack Obama talks of “all options” being “on the table” if Iran doesn’t halt its nuclear fuel processing program, and as Israel keeps threatening an air attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. But nowhere, perhaps, is this drumbeat louder than in the […]
Covering for the Company in Pakistan?
When President Barack Obama stood before a room of journalists on February 15 and demanded that Pakistan release “our diplomat” Raymond Davis from a Lahore prison where he faced double murder charges, and when he lectured the Islamabad government on its “obligation” to adhere to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, there were […]
Pictures at an Execution Panel
Security was tight at the Philadelphia Federal Courthouse for a November 9 hearing by the Third Circuit Appeals Court to consider the death sentence of local journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose 1982 conviction for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer has been widely questioned (Extra!, 11-12/95; Extra! Update, 2/99). Some 500 demonstrators calling for Abu-Jamal’s […]
Media Blackout on Agent Orange
In mid-October, hundreds of thousands of Vietnam-era veterans got some good if grim news: The Veterans Administration announced it was adding three more diseases to the 11 others it automatically presumes to have been caused by exposure to Agent Orange, the dioxin-laced herbicide spread by the U.S. military across much of South Vietnam to deny […]
Impeachment Not on Media Radar
There is a growing grassroots campaign demanding the impeachment of George W. Bush. Across the nation, towns and cities have been passing pro-impeachment resolutions. Websites promoting impeachment keep springing up. In several states, bills have been introduced in state legislatures that, if passed, would become formal bills of impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives, […]
