Washington Post Reserves Dignity in Death for Some Women
How do you know that the women whose murders the Washington Post is reporting were sex workers or dealing with substance abuse?
Janine Jackson
For AP, Being Shot by a Cop Makes You a Suspect
“Incidents involving white law enforcement and black suspects have raised concerns across the US,” writes the Associated Press.
But the “incidents” raising concerns have not involved black “suspects.”
NYT: ‘Too Generous’ Family Policies Cause Discrimination Against Women
“It turns out that generous maternity leave and flexible rules on part-time work can make it harder for women to be promoted — or even hired at all.” That’s one way to put it, and the New York Times article puts it that way repeatedly.
Getting Media to Take Climate Threats Seriously? There’s a Snowball’s Chance
Speaking of the laugh riot that is climate change, have you heard the one about the pipeline that would carry a third more tar sands crude oil than Keystone XL?
Looking Away From Police Killings
That so many black people are killed by law enforcement is a painful, difficult thing to face. That we don’t know how many people is a scandal in itself.
Investigative Reporting = Working With Ad Partners to Monetize the Audience
Many would think there was something wrong with an investigative reporter who consults directly with an advertiser to think of ways for them to profit from the news. But, here we are.
FAIR TV: Fox News & Ferguson, Cop Euphemisms and Disney ‘News’
On Fox News Channel, the real “bad guy” in Ferguson was the victim Michael Brown. The New York Times softens language around police violence. And a commercial for a new movie is “news”–on the movie studio’s TV network.
Ebola Story Puts Old Fears in New Virus
Ebola is less a story about a bizarre new disease and its unpredictably disastrous capacities, and more a sad old story about poverty and priorities.
Two More ‘Police Incidents,’ Shrouded in Media Euphemism
That so many black people are killed by law enforcement is a painful, difficult thing to face. Perhaps that’s why media try so hard to look away.
FAIR TV: Keystone Misinformation, War ‘Works’ and NPR’s Cosby Questions
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news–and so is a lot of the same old misinformation. Plus we’ll look at how some TV journalists think about how war “works,” and at what exactly NPR’s Scott Simon asked comedian Bill Cosby.
Amid Wall Street’s ‘Dazzling Successes,’ Workers Left in ‘Dark Corners’
Does the fact that “CEOs are feeling pretty good about things” mean that the majority of US households–which rely on paychecks–should feel good too?
Business as Usual Is a Disaster
One would hope that with Barack Obama talking about expanding offshore drilling, media would take seriously a judge’s conclusion that the Deepwater disaster was not a matter of accidental missteps by a few “bad apples,” but implicates business as usual for an entire industry, as well as those agencies meant to regulate it.
FAIR TV: #TimeFail, Dodgy Climate Change Rhetoric and the Non-Voting Public
This week: Time slams public school teachers; what did their “bad apples” cover story get wrong? Plus we look at how ABC is framing the climate change debate among Republican politicians, and we note that election season pundits shouldn’t confuse the message they’re hearing from a minority of the population that votes with “the public.”
FAIR TV: ABC’s Factcheck Fail, Chuck Todd’s DQ, and Malala’s Message
ABC botches an easy ISIS factcheck, and NBC’s Chuck Todd “disqualifies” a Senate candidate who gave an iffy response to a trivial question. Plus Malala Yousafzai wins the Nobel Peace Prize–but US media doesn’t seem interested in her peace message.
FAIR TV: Media in War Mode, Calling for Civilian Deaths and PBS Hits Harper’s
On this week’s show: The ways corporate media cover war, a Fox News pundit wants to see more civilian deaths in Syria, and PBS uses its ad dollars to punish a magazine. All of that on this week’s show:
Michael Brown Had a Father
Corporate reporters, in the main, saw little to question the idea that the fundamental problem facing men of color is “broken” families in need of a dominant male and that entrenched socio-economic disparities could be meaningfully addressed without systemic change.
FAIR TV: ISIS & the ‘Homeland,’ Pro-War Pundits and ‘Don’t Blame Fracking’
This week: Watch ABC drum up fears about a terror attack on the United States. Plus we’ll take a look at the state of the debate over war, and how big papers spun a study of how fracking leads to water contamination into a story about how we shouldn’t blame fracking. Take a look:
FAIR TV, September 8, 2014: USA Today Poll Distortion, Chris Christie’s ‘Gaffe’
Are corporate media banging the war drums in 2014 just like they did in 2003? USA Today promotes a poll that they say shows the public wants a more ‘muscular’ foreign policy. But is that really the message the public is sending? Plus the New York Times remembers a Chris Christie foreign policy ‘gaffe’– saying something accurate about the occupation of the West Bank.
FAIR TV: Ferguson, Back to Iraq and Disputing Gaza Deaths
Some good–and not so good–media reactions to the police killing of Michael Brown. Plus pundits wonder what took Obama so long to bomb Iraq, and two papers try to raise doubts about the death toll in Gaza.
Ferguson Case Poses Test for Corporate Media
The surprise has been the extent to which some media seem to be taking the outcry seriously, talking about the militarization of police–brought home by the rough treatment given to reporters–and the criminalization of black people.
