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The broadcast news networks have aired exactly one report on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests since the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began an encampment against the project in April, according to a search of the Nexis news database.
Some of what the New York Times calls Jeremy Corbyn’s “hard left” positions are widely popular in the United Kingdom.
You don’t need time travel to make the generic EpiPen a bad deal; you just need to travel across the border into Canada.
Rather than giving one definition of the alt-right, Breitbart News chooses to describe it piece by piece. Let’s put the pieces together and see what kind of picture it makes.
In an explainer about Donald Trump hiring Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO, the New York Times references FAIR’s criticism of the Times’ handling of the distorted ACORN story, which was promoted by Andrew Breitbart.
A Times writer offers the results of Honduran anti-violence programs as “a striking rebuke to the rising isolationists in American politics,” who “seem to have lost their faith in American power.” But she failed to explain how American power paved the way for the shocking rise in violence in Honduras.
But Nazario failed to explain how American power paved the way for the shocking rise in violence in Honduras.
Cigarettes are not just a “drug of any kind.” They’re actually a drug that kills far more people in the US than opioid overdoses—480,000 per year, according to the CDC, vs. 28,647 for opioid ODs.
The New York Times provided no evidence that the presumed killer in Nice, France, was motivated by either politics or religion to commit violence–yet still labeled the murders as “terrorism,” as though the definition of that crime were based on ethnicity rather than motivation.
The New York Times attempts to provide insight into how modern-day racists negotiate the contemporary racial terrain. But this is hard to do, given that the Times along with other establishment media outlets are a crucial part of that terrain.
Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was given prime space on the New York Times’ op-ed page to declare that his bank was doing something about “wage stagnation” and “income inequality” by “giving thousands of employees a raise.”
The top story for USA Today on July 8, 2016: Western countries aren’t spending enough money on weapons of war.
The story displayed not a hint of skepticism that increasing military spending is anything other than an unalloyed good.
A Nexis search turns up no US newspaper that reported on the recall of the Venezuelan or Salvadoran ambassadors to Brazil in response to the efforts to oust twice-elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Faced with the destruction of journalistic values by the corrupting effects of the profit motive, journalists can either stand up for the principles that brought many of them into the career in the first place—or else identify with the corruption, telling themselves that they’re siding with the smart money even as it destroys the institutions that form the basis for their profession.
“The Supreme Court Drifts to the Left.” That’s the message of a chart that takes up a good chunk of some of the most valuable journalistic real estate in the world, the top half of the front page of the New York Times. Only—that’s not what this chart shows at all.
Lack of curiosity about the influence of the violent far-right is a long tradition in US corporate media; don’t expect the murder of Jo Cox to change that.
If it was worth NPR’s airtime to give a false impression of the connection between terrorism and electoral politics, isn’t it worth airtime to tell people what the actual historical record says?
Critics do not generally need to seek permission nor pay royalties for quotations from the works they criticize—the “fair use” provision in copyright law authorizes such quotes for the purposes of commentary and criticism. But the New York Times, it seems, has a very restrictive view of fair use when it comes to its own material.
The Associated Press (6/6/16) has unilaterally declared Hillary Clinton to be “the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president,” based on the news agency’s own polling of unelected superdelegates.
New York Times op-ed writer Thomas Edsall (6/1/16) sets out to examine the role resentment plays in fueling the movement behind Donald Trump—but does so in such an uncritical way that he seems to adopt Trump voters’ resentments as his own.
“The major problem is that we have an establishment that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, led by a corporate media, which tries to condition the American people not to believe that we can accomplish those goals—or to even consider that those goals can be part of what American society is about.”
