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Resisting the reopening of schools on the basis that the White House press secretary misspoke represents a lost opportunity to actually oppose the administration’s scandalously poor handling of the coronavirus.
While national corporate media outlets have offered Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby a wide platform to brand herself as a progressive prosecutor, local and independent media have been publishing reports that challenge her office’s record in practice.
If it’s part of a news outlet’s job to aid dissenters, through privacy protection or other means, why aren’t NPR, CNN and the like providing cybersecurity and “rapid response funds” for antiracist protesters domestically?
Corporate media outlets provide cover for US authoritarianism when they publish reports that suggest President Donald Trump possesses executive powers he doesn’t actually have.
US media coverage has endorsed, downplayed or ignored the harm the sanctions will inflict on Syria’s civilian population, and the misery years of previous sanctions have already inflicted.
On the occasion of the silver anniversary of Thomas Friedman’s foreign affairs column in the New York Times, let’s recall some of his greatest hits from over the years,
A New York Times editorial delivers a blunt critique of neoliberal economics–not what Times readers have been used to seeing on its editorial pages.
A New York Times article plays up political distinctions to paint epidemiologists and other health experts as hypocritical, feeding the media narrative that they were “politicizing science.”
Why does this medical misfortune in Inner Mongolia, one of hundreds of cases of bubonic plague that will occur worldwide this year, deserve a story in major news outlets?
The New York Times has been patting itself on the back for recognizing authoritarianism in neofascist regimes that it helped normalize in Latin America for at least 50 years.
Whatever inflammatory rhetoric North Korean officials may or may not use in the face of perceived attacks on the country, journalists ought to remind their audiences that North Korean government officials are no more suicidal than any other country’s leaders.
Despite the fact that the anonymous accusations were far from proven, and that both the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal included categorical denials from all those involved, including the White House, the Taliban and Moscow, much of corporate media treated the story as an established fact from the outset.
In their zeal to once again expose Trump as an all-around bad man, corporate media have elevated someone who should be condemned by a civilized society.
While the question of how quickly to reopen will affect potentially millions of lives, equally important is asking what science can tell us about how to reopen.
A Photo Bill of Right’s language about how photographers should use “informed consent,” especially in the context of the current protests against police brutality, has caused a stir among journalists.
Election Focus 2020: The obvious questions the endorsement raises are how it might influence Biden’s military policy, and perhaps whether such an endorsement would be demotivating for antiwar voters in Biden’s voter base.
Some corporate media have recently been taken with the “inspirational” story of Emily Thompson, the first woman to pilot the super-costly F-35 jet in combat.
By relying on CIA testimony, media shift the focus away from the tyranny in our own backyard in favor of pointing fingers at the “despotic leaders” of “the Third World”—never mind the fact that the US has no qualms with oppressive leadership in the Middle East when it aligns with our interests.
When an international siege campaign impoverishes North Korea and causes mass starvation, US propagandists sadistically mock the North for selling sand, calling it a “rogue state” that “starves its own people.”
A New York Times reporter tries to explain why Swedes are no longer allowed to visit other Scandinavian countries in a way that minimizes having to acknowledge how much he sold deadly snake oil to Times readers.
