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On July 2, a year had passed since MSNBC’s last segment mentioning US participation in the war on Yemen, which has killed in excess of 15,000 people and resulted in over a million cases of cholera.
Much media coverage of immigration misses out on why large numbers of people from the Northern Triangle are migrating to the US in the first place. Over the past three generations, the Northern Triangle countries, long marked by profound levels of inequality, have each experienced horribly destructive civil wars and military coups–with the US intimately involved in each of these.
For such a powerful figure, Schumer gets relatively scant scrutiny from New York City’s press corps, long considered the toughest in the United States.
Of the 90 opinion pieces on the subject of ICE that were published in papers across the US from June 28 to July 18, 85 were explicitly against abolishing ICE, while only five were supportive.
Confusion about whether it still counts as journalism when it’s challenging to power is as distressing an assessment of today’s elite media as you need
It’s possible to believe that Russia intervened in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump without thinking that this is remotely comparable to Pearl Harbor.
When the New York Times wanted to recap reactions—“from the right and left”—to Donald Trump’s recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the choice of pundits it turned to to represent “the left” was exceedingly bizarre.
“Riots” and “vandalized shops,” “mayhem” in the streets, “mobs”: When people of color take to the streets, corporate media often veer toward certain framing and vocabulary.
As corporate media dove into the child separation story, the voices of those impacted most by immigration policy were drowned out by soundbites from congressmembers and Trump administration officials.
A Washington Post essay never considers the possibility that respect for traditional purveyors of “truth” has been badly weakened by the fact that they have failed to do so in many important ways in recent years.
On the separation of immigrant families, many recent news stories tell harrowing and important specific stories, but they mostly don’t get into the structural causes, the deep history.
For US media, keeping Mexico “open for business” for “foreign investors” should be a priority, a call for maintaining the economic status quo in a country where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line.
Could it be media would prefer to scour for evidence of a shooter’s mental illness or report on his dysfunctional past, rather than address what their own role could have been in encouraging killers, through being the very channel by which their “story” is told?
The New York Times has the ability to report on woes in other countries without recognizing that its own country has troubles that are similar or worse.
You’d think after being so spectacularly wrong on Stop and Frisk, the Daily News would take the lesson to be more skeptical and wary about police practices. Alas, no, the editorial instinct is the same: support the police department to the point of echoing its talking points.
In a period of record-low productivity growth, Thomas Friedman tells us the robots are taking all the jobs. Hey, no one ever said you had to have a clue to write for the New York Times.
The propaganda effect of insisting on the need for civility is profoundly harmful, considering that virtually every gain won by workers, LGBTQ people, people of color and women—and the many who belong to more than one of these groups—has involved actions the Washington Post would call “uncivil.”
The Economist maintains that while Sanders is indeed the most popular politician in America, his time in the sun has passed, and that the popularity of his brand of progressive populism is vastly overstated.
Any defense of Venezuela’s government will provoke vilification and ridicule, so both Alan MacLeod and his publisher (Routledge) deserve very high praise for producing the book Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting. It took real political courage.
The extreme center refuses to acknowledge even the most elementary distinctions between those who depart from the reigning consensus: Everyone angry about the state of the world is the same, however numerous and gargantuan the gaps in the political content of their grievances, or of the social changes they endorse.
