Normalizing Ethnic Supremacy in Israel/Palestine
It’s wrong in the ethical sense for the New York Times to implicitly accept as normal politics a refusal to allow democracy to undermine ethnic supremacy.
Jim Naureckas
NYT Corrects Its Ed Herman Obit
FAIR thanks the activists who contacted the New York Times, and the Times for correcting the record.
NYT’s Obit for Ed Herman Requires a Correction
Ask the New York Times to correct the claim that Herman and Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent was criticized for “having soft-pedaled evidence of genocide” that hadn’t happened yet.
USA Today Ignores Climate Change as Factor in Alaskan Drilling
Please tell USA Today to mention climate change prominently when writing about energy issues.
WaPo Defends Its Owner Against Charges That He’s Very Wealthy
It almost sounds like the newspaper owned by the second-wealthiest person in the world doesn’t want people talking about how much the extremely rich own compared to the rest of us.
For NYT, Making the Democrats Safe for the Oligarchy Is Literally Job One
For more than a century, the Times has played the same role in Democratic politics—defending the party’s Big Money wing against populist encroachments. But rarely has the paper’s pleading on behalf of elite interests in the Democratic Party been as frenetic as it has lately.
No, US Didn’t ‘Stand By’ Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated
“Standing by” is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times.
American Made: A Largely True Story With Some Not-So-Fun Lies
American Made depicts Central America as a Cold War battleground, with no mention of the fact that hundreds of thousands of civilians were being murdered by US-backed governments. But bringing up that part of the history would definitely put a feel-bad spin on what was meant to be an entertaining romp with a lovable rogue.
Two Charts on the Gun Crisis: One Hopeful, One Hopeless
I found two graphics on the gun crisis particularly interesting: one because it brought hope, and the other because it blew that hope away.
WaPo Defends Boss Against Sanders’ Charge That He’s Extremely Wealthy
The vaunted Washington Post factchecking team is once again applying its microscope to Sen. Bernie Sanders. The awkward thing is that the fact in question involves the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, the world’s second-wealthiest person.
Why the Revolution Will Not (but Must) Be Televised
Corporate media are really designed around preserving the status quo—unsurprisingly, because they are owned by the class of people who benefit from things staying the same.
Talking About a Revolution
The gaps between the status quo and our survival are why we need a new media system. You will not learn from corporate media how much danger their advertisers are putting us in, or what we can do to stop them.
Missile Defense Will Protect You From North Korea, Say USA Today’s Missile Defense–Funded Sources
USA Today’s sources on how “US missile defense plans” will protect you from the “N. Korean Nuke Threat” mostly have a direct financial connection to the US missile defense program.
At NYT, Fantasy of Bill Clinton’s Centrism Saving the Dems Never Gets Old
The New York Times has a fairy tale it wants to tell you—about the magical land of Centrism and how it needs to be saved from the sinister Lefties….
When You Reject Class-Based Politics, ‘Thoughtful’ Appeals to Racism Are All You’ve Got Left
The New York Times’ Thomas Edsall declares “the end of left and right as we knew them.” But how well did he know them?
Wishful Thinking in Defense of Democrats’ Pro-Business Politics
Jonathan Chait’s argument is that the voters who switched from Obama to Trump had conservative social views—so if Democrats need to do anything to win in 2020, they should move to the right on race and immigration policy.
The Day After Corbyn’s Surprise Surge, NPR Would Rather Talk About Buckethead
The day after the British elections, NPR.org showed considerably more interest in a candidate who ran dressed as a “space lord” than in the leader of the Labour Party.
WaPo Fails to Note Raytheon, Saudi Funding of Advocate for Raytheon Arms to Saudis
The conflicts of interest posed by think tank funding are an endemic problem in establishment journalism, which often presents industry-funded institutes as neutral experts.
NYT Values Reputation for ‘Balance’ More Than Health of Sick Kids
What is misleading, and dangerously so, is the New York Times’ effort to minimize the dangers ACA repeal poses to sick children in order to maintain its self-image as evenhandedly critical of both major parties.
Why Advocating Torture Is OK, but Single-Payer Is Beyond the Pale
The New York Times’ op-ed page’s latest right-wing hire, Bret Stephens, doesn’t like Donald Trump—but he loves Trump’s worst ideas.
