For NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
Demonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon
Coverage of the US/Israeli assault on Lebanon has evinced a casual disregard for Lebanese lives, and often an outright zest for killing the country’s people.
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 Urge Expansion of Ukraine War—Nuclear Risk Be Damned
Despite the risks of escalation, Biden’s public reluctance to loosen limits on Ukrainian use of US missiles has been met in the war-hungry media primarily with derision.
Vance Dossier Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal
Musk’s Twitter is keeping certain information out of the public view—information that just happens to damage the presidential ticket he supports.
Judges in TikTok Case Seem Ready to Discount First Amendment
A US circuit court panel appears ready to uphold a federal law that would effectively ban the popular social media network TikTok.
How Scripps Turned Public Disengagement Into ‘Strong Support’ for Deportation
By exploiting a lack of information, pollsters create the illusion of strong public support.
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, […]
WSJ Calls for Keeping Judiciary in Shadows
The Wall Street Journal comes out against journalism that exposes how powerful institutions function.
Study: To US Papers, ‘Identity Politics’ Is Mostly a Way to Sneer at the Left
A FAIR study of US newspapers found the overwhelming majority of times the vague term “identity politics” was mentioned, it was referring to Democrats and the left.
What Did ABC Think Voters Needed to Hear From Harris and Trump?
ABC asked some surprisingly pointed questions about perhaps the most important issue in this election—the preservation of democratic elections themselves.
Not Reporting on Trump as a Threat to Democracy Is Also a Threat to Democracy
Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.
A Bookstore Brouhaha Confuses Whose Speech Is Being Curtailed
Free speech debates tend to value the importance and rights to a platform of the saintly media class.
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.
Breaking News Alerts Keep Public Posted on Trivia and Trump
Media outlets promise comprehensive news alerts about important breaking stories occurring everywhere—but that’s not what subscribers are getting.
NYT Uncritically Reported Israel’s Version of Golan Bombing
Coverage of the Golan Heights massacre continues a long trend of US media outlets obscuring and distorting reality in order to downplay Israel’s aggressive regional ambitions.
Sanders’ Convention Speech Attacked by NYT for Advocating Popular Policies
The specific policies the New York Times scolds Bernie Sanders for promoting don’t seem to be particularly unpopular, with moderates or anyone else.
Phil Donahue Changed My Life—and Millions of Others
Phil Donahue was a trailblazer in bringing social issues to a national audience as a daytime broadcast TV host, and then he was pretty much banished from TV by MSNBC.
Students Left Out of Discussions About Student Gaza Protests
A new FAIR study finds that media conversations about student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine rarely included students themselves.
NYT Cynically Suggests Antisemitism Cost Shapiro the VP Slot
The New York Times has stood by the fiction that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who made the short list of vice presidential hopefuls, didn’t get the nod because of left-wing antisemitism.
