Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China
Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check.
Gregory Shupak
As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
Canadian Media Advocate Continued Domination of Indigenous Peoples
Editorials omitted crucial information about the status of Wet’suwet’en territory and United Nations positions on Indigenous self-determination, cherry-picked aspects of Canadian law that serve their arguments, and endorsed state repression of land defenders and their supporters irrespective of the violence this would entail.
Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism
Election Focus 2020: News organizations seemed unable to process that a major national political figure could say something positive about a socialist country, leaving these outlets flailing around in absurd ways.
Media Urge Palestinians to Take Crumbs—Because Democracy Is Not on Offer
Pretend that colonial larceny underwritten by the US empire is the only option available to Palestinians, and it’ll be harder for them to build support for a just outcome.
The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence
Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere.
Trump Order Aimed at Palestine Solidarity, Not Antisemitism
There is ample reason to doubt the administration’s claims that the executive order is a good-faith effort at combating antisemitism.
Unpacking Media Propaganda About Bolivia’s Election
Editorials read as though it were a settled fact that the Morales government stole the election, though there’s a paucity of evidence to believe that that’s what happened.
Media Alarmed by Imaginary US Pullout From Syria
The demand that the US keep its forces in Syria to prevent Turkish violence against Kurdish and other Syrian people ignores the fact that US forces in Syria are not an obstacle to Turkish violence.
The False Balance Between Fascists and Antifascists
There is a stark difference between groups who see violence as tool to make the world a more racist, misogynist, transphobic and homophobic place, and those who defend against such violence.
The NYT’s Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran
The New York Times’ “anti-war” arguments are woefully lacking—vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and hiding US aggression towards Iran.
Creating a Climate for War With Iran
Media outlets are creating a climate for a US military attack on Iran by hyping the idea that Iran is an imminent threat to peace. Headlines breathlessly suggest to readers that Iranians are going to kill Americans if Americans don’t kill Iranians first.
In Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats
US leaders have been threatening Iran for years, but US corporate media persistently and wrongly paint US escalations against Iran as defensive countermeasures.
Distorting ‘Democracy’ in Venezuela Coverage
That corporate media manage to portray Juan Guaidó and his regime-change cohort as a “pro-democracy movement” is both a tragedy and a farce.
For NYT, Israel Is Always Nearing ‘Apartheid,’ but Never Quite Gets There
The New York Times acknowledges that governing millions of Palestinians but denying them the vote is a form of apartheid, so there’s no justification for saying, after nearly 52 years of such disenfranchisement, that that will eventually constitute apartheid, but for some unspecified reason doesn’t yet at this point.
When They Don’t Ignore, US Media Often Disparage Palestinians’ Right of Return
When the right of return is mentioned in media, pundits and other journalists often baselessly call its legitimacy into question.
US Media Erase Years of Chavismo’s Gains
Venezuela’s years of social gains have been almost entirely written out of media coverage of the effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government by the US, Canada and their right-wing partners in Venezuela and the region.
US Media Ignore—and Applaud—Economic War on Venezuela
The US media chorus supporting a US overthrow of the Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country’s economic crisis as a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US has strangled the Venezuelan economy.
The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
Whether in South Africa or Israel/Palestine, the argument has been the same: Hypothetical threats posed by the oppressed to their oppressors justify continued subjugation.
Media Worried US Won’t Occupy Syria Forever
In December, President Donald Trump said that he planned to withdraw from Syria the US troops there, which number between 2,000 and 4,000. Trump’s claim was widely condemned in corporate media.
