Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal
Corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices.
Julie Hollar
Media Rediscover Afghan Women Only When US Leaves
Media “discovered” Afghan women as the US angled for invasion; their interest returned with a vengeance as US troops exited the country.
To the Right, to the Right: Media’s Special Election Lesson
It wasn’t hard to find media voices quick to draw the usual conclusion: Voters prefer moderate over progressive policy platforms.
Both-Sidesing Democracy to Death
As Trump has solidified his grip on the right, elite journalists have largely returned to their perfunctory both-sides reporting.
There’s No ‘Vaccine Mandate’—but That Doesn’t Stop WaPo Asking People How They Feel About It
When journalists gin up controversy over lesser measures, they make progress in the fight against Covid that much harder.
Manchin’s Coal Conflict of Interest Not of Interest to Corporate News
Corporate media don’t tell their audience that Sen. Joe Manchin has a giant conflict of interest in the matter of fossil fuels.
The Two Big Lies of WSJ’s Attack on Critical Race Theory
The point of the backlash campaign is to arrest the recent movement toward teaching about the United States’ “difficult” racial history,
How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
Mainstream corporate media have given far too much space and legitimacy to the right’s focus on white victimhood.
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds
New York City’s two big tabloid dailies gave far more coverage to crime than to the affordable housing crisis in the past year.
Pushing Consumers to Amazon Is Baked In to NYT’s Business Model
Anodyne Wirecutter articles that instruct New York Times readers how best to shop at Amazon serve to blunt any impact from critical coverage.
WaPo Obscures Republican Role in Killing Equal Pay
The GOP no doubt cackles with delight at coverage like the Washington Post’s which deflects blame away from them.
Why Do White Republicans Oppose Black Lives Matter?
The role of right-wing media purveyors of outright bigotry and falsehood in turning white Republicans strongly against the Black Lives Matter movement should not be overlooked.
State Campaigns to Outlaw Abortion Barely Mentioned by Major Outlets
The anti-choice assault goes hand-in-hand with the right’s state-level campaigns against voting rights and transgender rights.
In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights
Instead of centering trans voices in coverage of bills that target them, journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post have tended to cover the story as primarily one of political debate,
Sunday Shows Hit Snooze on Climate Alarm
If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, journalists have to move beyond debating its existence or importance, and start looking at both its causes—very concretely, looking at culprits—and its solutions.
Media Manage to Both-Sides Georgia GOP’s Suppressing Democracy
Despite Republicans’ obvious—often explicitly stated—goal of rigging future elections more successfully than they have in the past, many of those national media outlets can’t give up their commitment to both-sidesing the story, giving cover to the anti-democratic campaign.
Minimum Wage Opponents Are ‘Moderates’—in Media Imagination
As Democrats push to include a $15 federal minimum wage in the Covid stimulus package, many media reports have been giving the false impression that it’s an idea far outside the mainstream.
For Sunday Shows, Border Is ‘Political Crisis,’ Not Humanitarian Emergency
Increasing numbers of migrants are attempting to cross the US/Mexico border, and unaccompanied children and teenagers are exceeding the capacities of government-run detention facilities. The right has declared a crisis, and national corporate media have largely followed suit. Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas appeared on five of the six Sunday Beltway talk […]
Austerity-Addicted Media Scaremonger Over Infrastructure ‘Spending Spree’
With an infrastructure bill—which could come in around $2 trillion over four years—now pending, the media deficit hawks are on high alert, tossing around big, scary numbers to throw cold water on the bill.
ACTION ALERT: Where Is MSNBC on GOP Anti-Trans Campaign?
First it was bathrooms, now it’s sports. When the GOP’s war against trans people using the restroom appropriate for their gender identity largely failed, it turned to a new focus to rile up its base: trans girls in sports “destroying” girls’ athletics. At least 50 bills have been introduced in 29 states that target […]
