Three Massive Funds Control a Chunk of Most Media:
Maybe that's why you might not have heard of them
Putting the interests of capital writ large above all else is the Big Three’s job.
Saurav Sarkar
Both NYC Tabloids Fought Mamdani, But Each Did It Their Way
The New York Post and Daily News agreed that Zohran Mamdani should not be mayor of New York. But the ways they opposed him vastly differed,
Trump’s Portland Lies Euphemized as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.
For US Corporate Media, Italy’s Gaza Protests Had Two Strikes Against Them
After a massive Italian mobilization against genocide in Gaza, there was only a smattering of online coverage among US corporate media outlets.
CBS Drifts Further Toward Right-Wing State Television
Face the Nation’s renunciation of editing comes in the wake of other recent capitulations by CBS and Paramount to Trump administration demands.
NYT Buries News That Experts on Genocide Say Israel Is Committing It
A declaration by genocide scholars that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza was widely seen as significant news–but not by the New York Times.
Unconfirmed ‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter
The IDF needed to differentiate its mass slaughter from Hamas’s violence—which it could only do by painting Hamas as subhuman.
Scary Headlines Hype Dangers Rarely Faced by Tourists in Mexico
US corporate media outlets seem uninterested in giving readers a sense of what level of risk they might face visiting Mexico.
The False Debate Over ‘Broken Borders’
Since 2005, much of the mainstream media has been rife with coverage of what has been called “immigration reform”—a policy debate over what kind of immigration legislation would be passed among a narrow range of options. One pole of the legislative debate was the McCain-Kennedy proposal, which would have created a temporary or “guest” worker […]
Birth of a Factoid
[Note: This piece is a sidebar to “The False Debate Over ‘Broken Borders’.”] Coverage of a recent study by Jeffrey Passel of the Pew Hispanic Center on undocumented immigrants in the United States (3/7/06) illustrates how facts are constructed in the immigration debate. The organization’s website states that the report provides “an estimate of 11.5 […]
