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CounterSpin Interview We’re used to media scaremongering over Social Security retirement insurance, claiming that benefits must be cut because the program is about to run out of money (Extra!, 10/10). But lately media have pushed a different Social Security story, claiming that there has been an alarming and suspicious explosion in the number of […]
Today the Washington Post gloats over the Honduran election, the results of which they see as a rebuke to left-leaning former President Manuel Zelaya, who was removed from office in a 2009 coup. But the Post isn’t getting the story right
CNN’s Sunday show offered a very one-sided discussion of the Iran nuclear deal–and some misinformation from host Candy Crowley.
What do you do when the president of another country says US forces killed civilians there? You get US and other allied officials to anonymously deny it.
Most people know that Obama did not take office in 2010. So why offer that as the starting point in an analysis of how Obama is “bring[ing] the troops home” from Afghanistan?
The Chamber of Commerce and other powerful corporate interests like oil giant BP pony up to sponsor Politico–and just so happen to get glowing coverage in the very same outlet.
But the idea that Iranians are inherently more suspicious is widespread. Time magazine’s Karl Vick wrote a piece for the Time website that asserted that “Iranians are masters of what has been termed ‘Oriental indirection.'”
Let’s say you’re best known for coming up with a federal budget blueprint that slashed tax rates for the wealthy and proposed big cuts to anti-poverty safety net programs, but now you want to be known as a guy who really cares about fighting poverty. Lucky for you, the Washington Post is here to help.
The New York Post is suggesting New York City is seeing the beginning of a scary crime wave. Turns out (surprise!) the Post is mostly full of it.
No, the website problems with the Affordable Care Act aren’t like Hurricane Katrina. They’re more like the Iraq War.
This week on FAIR TV: Media still hesitate to talk about climate change when covering extreme weather like the typhoon that just ravaged the Philippines. Chris Christie is “magical,” says one pundit–we’ll tell you what his trick is. And nuclear negotiations don’t make media coverage of Iran any better.
To some people, a new law that is running into technical problems with a poorly designed website is not really the same as a massive disaster in one of America’s iconic cities that killed almost 2,000 people.
Tom Friedman of the New York Times opened up his November 13 column with this: It goes without saying that the only near-term deal with Iran worth partially lifting sanctions for would be a deal that freezes all the key components of Iran’s nuclear weapons development program It goes without saying that this is deeply […]
In a rational world, Typhoon Haiyan would get media talking about climate change. But at the moment, it’s barely part of the conversation.
The New York Times reports what anonymous officials apparently told other reporters in order to blame Iran for the failure of nuclear talks.
The Iran nuclear negotiations had the Sunday shows talking–but who are they talking to? And do they know what they’re talking about?
Someone at CBS should have known the Benghazi story being peddled by their star witness didn’t add up.
To suggest that the Tea Party exists to express dissatisfaction with both major parties and the national security state, and that Obama’s presidency just so happened to coincide with the rise of this movement, stretches even the most active imagination.
After reporting that “the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased,” the Washington Post notes, almost as an afterthought, that the “vast majority” of deaths are recorded without incident.
Media are showing keen interest in stories about problems with individual insurance policies. But are they getting the story right? And did CBS ask tough questions of the former deputy director of the CIA–or did they throw softballs? Plus NBC and ABC offer examples of corporate synergy at work, using their news divisions to promote […]
