Jordana Jarrett

August 6, 2014

Fox, Bill O’Reilly and “Young Black Men”

Fox hosts rush to the defense of a local reporter who blamed a pervasive “anti-cop mentality” on “young black men growing up without fathers.”

July 9, 2014

Jordana Jarrett

Bolivian President Isn’t Radical Enough for Corporate Media

Vilifying left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean leaders is nothing new from the US media–from Chile’s Salvador Allende to Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, from Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to Mauricio Funes of El Salvador. Bolivian President Evo Morales is no exception, as he caught the attention of the website Vox, a new outlet that sets out to “explain the news” with an emphasis on data analysis.

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