The Real Scandal of Yemen Bombing Is Not That They Used the Wrong App
The focus on Washington palace intrigue over the bombing of women and children is a stark reminder of corporate media priorities.
Paul Hedreen
Decades of Media Myths Made Social Security Vulnerable to Political Attack
Leading newspapers still push the pernicious myth that Social Security is struggling and nearing insolvency, with few viable options for its rescue.
As Pakistan Murders Protesters, Leading US Papers Play Down Washington’s Role
Missing from the coverage of Pakistan protests in leading US papers was the ongoing support the government has received from the Biden administration.
NYT, WSJ Concur Economists Lost the Election—But Can’t Agree on Why
While the headlines were nearly identical, the ideological differences between the Times and the Journal mean the papers arrived at very different conclusions for the future of economics.
When Lights Go Out in Cuba, Media Blame Communism—Not US Sanctions
Reporting on Cuba’s blackouts have either omitted or paid brief lip-service to the effects of US sanctions on the Cuban economy.
Top Papers Quoted More Wine Importers Than Union Leaders on Port Strike
The more a strike affects the economy, i.e., the more effective it is, the harder corporate media try to smear workers as selfish and destructive.
Media Throw Everything But the Facts Against Harris’s ‘Price Control’ Proposal
Debates over whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s economic proposals constitute Communist price controls or merely technocratic consumer protections are obscuring a more insidious thread within corporate media. In coverage of Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal, it’s taken for granted that price inflation, especially in the grocery sector, is an organic and unavoidable result of market forces, […]
US Press Loses Interest as Winners of French Election Aren’t Allowed to Take Power
France has gone nearly two months without a legitimate government, and US corporate media don’t seem to care to report on it.
