For Establishment Press, the Lesson of Mamdani’s Victory Is to Take No Lessons
Corporate media pundits desperately wanted Mamdani’s victory to have no impact on the ideological direction of the Democratic Party.
Conde Nast, Paramount Cut Jobs—and Political Dissent
The purge-like firings at Paramount and Conde Nast will have a tremendously negative impact on the already sorry state of political news.
Don’t Worry, Wall Street Journal—Health Insurers Are Profitable!
When insurance stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted that private looting of the healthcare system might end.
As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its own—not against fascism, but against progressivism.
Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies
The Trump administration is throwing real reporters out of the Pentagon even as Trump is using the military in unprecedented ways.
Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda
Rather than scrutinize María Corina Machado credentials, the media establishment whitewashed the most unpeaceful elements in her background.
To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes
While most media outlets consistently describe the ceasefire as “fragile” and “delicate”, they won’t state the obvious: If you don’t cease firing, it’s not a ceasefire.
WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
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.
Flotilla Coverage Both-Sidesed Delivering Food to Starving People
News outlets took care to balance the humanitarian activists trying to bring food to a starving population with defenders of a genocidal regime.
NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.
The Wall Street Journal Has Many Ways to Deny Genocide
Those who deny the Gaza genocide are intellectually and morally equivalent to Holocaust deniers–yet the Wall Street Journal persists in running such denial.
MAGA’s Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV
Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trump’s good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.
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.
When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters
Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.
CPB Is Dead, But We Need Public Media More Than Ever
With the Project 2025 dream of pulling the plug on CPB realized, what happens next for public broadcasting?
US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year
In the era of Trump, publishers are, for a variety of reasons, encouraging cartoonists to approach the president on bended knee.
When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note
The different treatment accorded to the plights of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners by US corporate media illustrates a persistent double standard that treats some people as more human than others.
UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel
It is surely in the interest of the public to know if their local representatives were in Israel networking with parties to what the UN has labeled a genocide.
‘Near Daily’ Israeli Assaults on Lebanon Have Become Non-News for Western Media
Western corporate media have increasingly lost interest in reporting on Israel’s unceasing war on its northern neighbor.
