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The government isn’t having much luck showing the real world harm done by Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. Perhaps they should call in Time columnist Joe Klein–he knows “for a fact” that bad things happened.
Covering the Manning verdict on NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams said that Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski had “covered this story from the start.” But you’d have a hard time believing that when you heard the way he described one of the most talked-about aspects of the trial.
If you’re the commander of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and you want to send a message that those troops need to stay in the country past 2014, apparently you just tell the New York Times that you’re ready to talk.
“Some Democrats Look to Push Party Away From Center,” read the headline at the New York Times. But the “center” doesn’t actually mean what one might think it means–especially in the context of the political views of the American public.
In a recent New York Times interview, Barack Obama pointed out that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline probably won’t create many jobs–something we’ve been pointing out here on the FAIR Blog for a long time now,
This week we look at some of the messages coming from the corporate media in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict. And CBS gives Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu a platform to spread alarm over Iranian nukes. Plus a look at what corporate-owned TV networks think is newsworthy–a royal baby, not the trial of Bradley Manning.
When Jeremy Scahill called out a CNN reporter for an error, she eventually corrected her mistake on the air. That’s good– and more outlets should be doing the same. Unfortunately the “non-correction correction” is more typical–or, as in the case of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, a media figure will simply ignore the issue.
If Tom Friedman wants to slam Republicans’ anti-immigrant policies, he probably shouldn’t be summoning the ghost of Winston Churchill.
It’s not everyday that a syndicated columnist endorses racial profiling. But that’s exactly what the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen did in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict.
NY Times says Obama, like Dwight Eisenhower, avoided “military adventures” because he is “leaving Afghanistan.” Sure–after massively escalating the war there.
The recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act is bound to bring voter ID laws back into the media discussion. And, unfortunately, that means some of these discussions will suffer from a familiar problem: The unwillingness to point out that the problem such laws are allegedly fighting–voter fraud– doesn’t exist.
CBS Face the Nation gave Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yet another chance to make dubious claims about the threats posed by Iran’s supposed weapons.
This week on FAIR TV: David Gregory knows one thing about Obamacare–and it’s not true. We take a look at some NBC “reporting” that looks a lot like advertising. Plus ABC‘s Jonathan Karl gets an interview with George W. Bush, and pitches all softballs.
The New York Times reports that Wikileaks’ “journalistic reputation was…undercut by two prominent articles published by the New York Times.” But if anyone’s journalistic reputation was hurt by those articles, it was the Times’.
NBC’s Matt Lauer issued a clarification that his news report was not an advertisement. That was helpful, because the report appeared to be virtually identical to a paid infomercial.
To Washington Post columnist Walter Pincus, something about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden just doesn’t smell right. Lucky for him he gets space in a prestigious newspaper to work out his hunch–apparently without any editors or factcheckers to get in his way.
Policy debates are only as broad as the establishment media allow them to be. And on this particular issue–fiscal policy, or what decisions the government should make about spending and revenues–the media tend to prefer staying within what you might call a center-right spectrum of opinion,
George W. Bush doesn’t speak to the press much, but based on the fawning treatment he got from ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, he might want to re-consider.
CBS covers the Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal by asking Bush-era NSA chief Michael Hayden for help. And NPR wonders if media coverage of marriage equality is too tilted in favor of… equality? Plus network TV doesn’t cover Obama’s climate speech–but the fake newscast at Comedy Central does.
“A Coup? Or Something Else?” is the question a New York Times headline is posing today about the U.S. government’s response to the military’s removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. But what is the New York Times calling it?
