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Corporate media had a hard time finding “big” plans for healthcare because they chose to look for them only in the two major parties’ platforms.
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens made an overt case for US military intervention to topple Venezuela’s government.
We found no Washington Post articles since the start of the year with headlines directly addressing the negative economic impact of Trump’s proposed mass deportation policy.
NPR’s evidence that Trump is a “populist”—or at least has a populist lurking inside him—is remarkably thin.
Thomas Friedman offers his latest version of how much better everyone could be doing if they paid attention to the self-appointed secretary of humanity.
When Trump usurped Congress’s power of the purse, the Beltway paper declared this “highlights” the administration’s “determination.”
An accounting of the ceasefire is incomplete if it excludes how anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist forces in the Middle East thwarted US/Israeli designs.
There’s something about the start of a Trump presidency that makes grown men do strange things, like heiling Hitler.
This could very well be merely a delay in a ban, rather than long-term preservation of the TikTok platform.
The new direction sounds like the Foxification of the Washington Post, a move away from any attempt to hold the powerful to account and toward inexpensive clickbait punditry.
Articles that focus on feelings of burnout, often have the effect of making everyday people seem and feel less powerful than they are.
Coverage of the LA fires demonstrates that in the Murdoch fantasyland, “wokeness” can be used to blame literally anything.
Washington Post editors may not be backing down, but they are hearing you.
Right-wing political violence remains a threat that requires attention. Coverage of recent vehicle attacks illustrates that corporate media’s instinct is to look away.
Despite the overwhelming number of Israeli attacks in the post-ceasefire period, news audiences have heard that a “tense ceasefire holds.”
Coding Luigi Mangione as an Ivy Leaguer paints him as an out-of-touch rich kid rather than an anti-establishment renegade.
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”
Ben Smith’s stake in BuzzFeed may have exceeded $7 million—a strikingly large material interest in a company whose competitors Smith regularly covered.
Missing from the coverage of Pakistan protests in leading US papers was the ongoing support the government has received from the Biden administration.
