Teachers Left Out of School Reopening Discussion—Even on the Left
Coverage of the issue of reopening schools downplays the risk faced by teachers and other adult staffers, and far too often ignores education unions as sources.
Evidence-Free ‘Lab Leak’ Speculation Boosts Trump’s Xenophobic Approach to Coronavirus
Even if it is exceedingly difficult to prove a negative, there’s little reason to entertain a lab origin theory when no actual evidence is presented that the virus originated at any particular lab.
First Debate Calls for More Than Cutting Off Mics
When you have a candidate—who also happens to be the sitting president—who will not respect the rules of debate, who deliberately casts doubt on the legitimacy of the election, and who issues directives to white supremacist groups from a national stage, the only reasonable thing for journalists to do is to not just call for an end to the debates, but to call for an end to the Trump presidency.
Israel Isn’t Signing ‘Peace’ Deals
“Peace deal” is a misleading label to apply to agreements that help cement a belligerent military alliance against Iran, and allow violence against Palestinians, Libyans and Yemenis to continue.
Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’
Virtually every story of national significance includes secret or leaked material; they could all be in jeopardy under this new prosecutorial theory.
A Quick (Corrected) Calculation on Child Covid Deaths
People who promote the idea of accepting Covid infection in pursuit of herd immunity rarely acknowledge the high death toll that such a policy necessarily entails.
ACTION ALERT: With Planet at Stake, Moderators Must Make Climate a Focus of Debates
Contact the debate moderators today and tell them to make the climate crisis a key focus of the debates.
Media Blame Gender Reveal Parties, Not Climate Change, for West Coast Fires
Discussing the West Coast heatwave and fires, corporate media have been extremely hesitant to frame the discussion around climate change.
Voters Should be Wary of USA Today’s False Balance on Election 2020
Outlets like USA Today overstate Trump’s support and create the impression of a balance that doesn’t exist.
Journalists Need to Be Clear About a Clear Threat to Democracy
Newsrooms have an obligation to report that the most powerful person in the country is trying to subvert the election and retain power illegitimately, and a failure to blow the whistle on a clear threat to democracy is journalistic malpractice.
Manufacturing Disgrace: Reuters Distorts Chevron v. Donziger
Independent journalist Chris Hedges (ScheerPost, 8/25/20) wrote: The flagrant corruption and misuse of the legal system to abjectly serve corporate interests in the Donziger case illustrates the deep decay within our judiciary and democratic institutions. One of those deeply decayed institutions is the corporate media, as a review of several years of Reuters coverage […]
Democracy Dies in Obfuscation
In the extensive genre of corporate media obfuscation about right-wing paramilitary violence, a WaPo piece stands out even amidst some tough competition.
Press Normalizes Trump’s Lawlessness as Use of ‘Tools of Presidency’ to ‘Broaden Appeal’
Besides framing it as “Many Democrats were outraged,” elite media normalized Trump’s behavior with passivity.
‘Muscular’ Foreign Policy: Media Codeword for Violence Abroad
Words like “muscular” and “robust” are all too regularly used as euphemisms to sugarcoat inflicting violence around the world.
Distorting Facts to Blame the Left for Antisemitism
In the face of antisemitic violence from the right, media have looked for instances of liberals or leftists saying unsavory things as a kind of partisan balance.
Hiding the Impact of US Sanctions on Lebanon
That Lebanon is enduring a major financial crisis was made clear; that US sanctions have contributed to the problem was obscured.
US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor
Coverage dances around the fact that there are plenty of workers available in a state with 2.5 million people currently unemployed.
When It Comes to the Truth of Opinion Columns, It’s Reader Beware
The source for the “conspiracy theory” that Trump was blocking funding to the post office to prevent mail-in voting was…Donald Trump.
Media Praise Biden’s ‘Centrist Coalition’ for Steering Clear of ‘Progressive Demands’
A victory lap for the corporate press and the Democratic establishment against the party’s left flank.
American Deceptionalism
“Both sides” journalism set the conditions for the inevitable arrival of someone like Trump to the highest elected office in the land.
