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Whose story, USA Today’s Michael Wolff wonders, will replace “the dominant culture tale” provided by white men? “The women’s narrative? The anti-one-percent narrative?” As far as I can tell, he’s completely serious.
On Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd tried to provide some historical context to the controversy over incoming GOP majority whip Steve Scalise’s speaking before a white supremacist group. He failed.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius is the latest establishment journalist to launch a salvo against Sen. Elizabeth Warren and “her jihad against Wall Street.”
Reading the Washington Post opinion pages can be like reading dispatches from a parallel universe. You get that sense of alternative history from Post deputy editorial editor Jackson Diehl’s latest.
Do you have too much money? The New York Times has some shopping tips for you.
The second paragraph of the Washington Post’s news story (12/17/14) on President Obama normalizing relations with Cuba begins, “Cuba is a flyspeck of an island that long ago ceased to be a threat to the United States.”
The Washington Post’s poll most likely found that a small minority of Americans thought torture was justified after 9/11. In other words, pretty much the opposite of what the Post’s headline said.
This is an update to “Refusing to Take Sides, NPR Takes Sides With Torture Deniers” (FAIR Blog, 12/12/14). As Romenesko (12/12/14) points out, NPR‘s ethics department has been issuing guidance on the use of the word “torture.” The first memo, issued August 8, cites a message from then-NPR vice president for news Ellen Weiss, written […]
National Public Radio, following the lead of the Washington Post, tries to avoid applying the word “torture” in its own voice when covering US torture.
The Senate report revealed shocking, even sickening treatment of the CIA’s captives. But ABC’s focus wasn’t on the US government abuses detailed in the report, but “the fear that its release could threaten American lives.”
“Black lives matter” is the rallying cry of the burgeoning movement against police killings. The Associated Press, covering that movement, has produced a perfect example of what journalism looks like when black lives don’t matter.
The St. Louis Police Academy held a special class for “upper-echelon law enforcement professionals” on how to “WIN WITH THE MEDIA” after an “officer-involved shooting.”
Perhaps Richard Cohen is sensitive to people being called racist because he’s been called a racist by many observers–and not without good reason.
One of New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan’s recommendations to her paper for improving its coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is “Stop straining for symmetry.” It’s advice she seems reluctant to take herself.
It seems it’s hard to talk to an elite media host for very long before they start fantasizing about blowing things up.
Did New York Times editors leave out of a headline the fact that it was a child who had been shot because they didn’t want readers to get too upset about Israel doing the shooting?
NPR’s Scott Simon didn’t ask Bill Cosby about the sexual assault allegations made against him by numerous women. There was no “rape question.”
The front page of the New York Times dwells on how Democrats are playing on “racial fears” in campaign advertising. But are the ads actually unfair–or do they simply talk about issues the corporate media would rather not discuss?
The New York Times’ James Stewart made clear which side we should be rooting for in the Brazilian presidential elections: the side that lost.
Ryan Grim’s new book sheds new light on the establishment media’s 1996 effort to discredit Gary Webb’s Contra crack revelations by talking to some of the key players. They sleep very well, they want you to know.
