NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin
Summer School sidelines critical perspectives to teach its audience that privatization, austerity and deregulation are pivotal to freedom and prosperity.
Wilson Korik
NYT Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.
Fox News Can’t Admit Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
US Media’s Sorry History of Abetting Immigration Panics
From Chinese exclusion to Japanese internment to Operation Wetback, media of all kinds have repeatedly sensationalized the immigrant “other,” constructing an all-encompassing threat to native-born US labor and culture that can always be neutralized through a targeted act of mass displacement or incarceration–with catastrophic consequences for millions of human lives.
