Corporate Media Parrot FBI Talking Points as More Americans Turn to Encrypted Communication Online
Corporate media have resorted to guilt by association to turn their readers against digital security.
John O'Day
Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts About Exiling Julian Assange From Journalism
Through their efforts to discredit Assange and WikiLeaks, corporate media have snugly aligned themselves with the contemporary brokers of US imperial power against a journalistic movement that, over the last decade, has presented them with their most significant challenge.
When India Tries to Regulate Amazon, US Media Qualms About Monopoly Disappear
While commentators are at least beginning to worry about Amazon’s emerging monopoly here at home, this concern does not extend to countries like India, exposing the underlying neocolonial disposition of corporate media.
Trump Admin Follows Corporate Media Playbook for War With Iran
When everyone decides that war is the only other possibility, it starts to look like an inevitability. But even when they aren’t overtly stoking war fever against Iran, corporate media prime the militaristic pump in more subtle yet equally disturbing ways.
Why Do US Media Only Worry About One Authoritarian’s Nukes?
One might expect this concern over the United States’ authoritarian trajectory to be reflected in analysis of events as they unfolded in Singapore. But when corporate media’s focus turns outward, it seems the only radical, isolated and cultish dictator we need to worry about is Kim.
Net Neutrality Reduced to Mogul vs. Mogul in Corporate Media’s Shallow Coverage
A common refrain in popular news media is that net neutrality is just too boring and esoteric for ordinary people to be interested in. “Oh my god that is the most boring thing I’ve ever seen,” John Oliver (HBO, 6/1/14) once exclaimed after showing his audience a short clip from a government hearing on the […]
The Political Economy of ‘Moral Authority’
Corporate media are sounding the alarm that our moral authority is suddenly under attack by the Trump administration. The subtext to concern over Trump’s impact on the nation’s moral standing: The US’s self-proclaimed moral authority is good for business.
Bombs Speak Louder Than Words: The Liberal Reinvention of George W. Bush
As the demonization of Muslims once again gains currency in American electoral politics, liberal personalities are joining the call to return to the good old days when Republicans fielded candidates who talked sweetly to the community of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world while at the same time ordering warplanes to bomb an ever larger number of them.
Giving War a Chance
The specter of war in American foreign policy discourse has produced a troubling framework: Advocates of diplomacy with Iran cite war as the inevitable alternative, while critics of diplomacy cite war as its inevitable outcome.
Side-By-Side Coverage of Cuba and Iran Highlights Shift in US Media Villain-Making
While Cuban officials are granted airtime as they forcefully denounce American policies at a walking distance from the US Capitol building, similarly reasonable positions on the part of Iran are treated as outrageous demands.
