60 Minutes Pushed Harris Right on Econ, Border, While Ignoring Other Vital Issues
Bill Whitaker’s questions frequently started from right-wing talking points and assumptions, particularly over immigration and economic policy.
Double Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in Israel/Palestine
From the beginning, there were serious problems with the claims of mass rape by Hamas. Yet the New York Times devoted significant coverage to promoting that narrative.
Exposing Bias Against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Predictably Accused of Bias by CBS
Host Tony Dokoupil began the interview with an aggressive monologue that effectively dismissed Coates’ and his worldview, painting him as a radical not worth listening to.
New Yorker Sides With Right Against Childless Cat Ladies
The message of Emma Green’s one-sided New Yorker piece is that the issue of declining birth rates is not economic, but a spiritual rot in contemporary society.
CNN’s Tapper Smears Tlaib With Baseless Charge of Bias
CNN’s Jake Tapper took a baseless accusation made on X and elevated it to a national story, smearing Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib as antisemitic.
NYT Can’t Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq
More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.
Press Amplifies GOP Attack Line: Walz Too Slow to Use Force Against BLM
Corporate media are allowing the debate to revolve around the question of whether Tim Walz was quick enough to use force against Black Lives Matter protests.
How Sinclair Sneaks Right-Wing Spin Into Millions of Households
While millions of Americans are subjected to Sinclair’s electioneering, few know it. That’s because, like a chameleon, the TV network blends into the woodwork.
CNN’s Debate Plan Makes Democracy the Likely Loser
Of the major nonpartisan news networks (i.e., excluding Fox), CNN is perhaps the least fit to host a presidential debate.
Corporate Media Push Conspiracy Theories to Discredit Student Protesters
Across corporate media, journalists and pundits introduced conspiracy theories to discredit the pro-Palestine student protest movement, particularly that they are funded by foreign countries or “outside agitators.”
The NYT’s One True Subject Is the One Percent
From the career triumphs of nepo babies to deep dives about luxury real estate, it’s clear that the New York Times’ most cherished subject is the One Percent.
Attacks on ICC Show ‘Condemning Hamas’ Is Really About Absolving Israel
By condemning both Hamas and Israel leaders for illegal acts of violence, the ICC is delegitimizing Israel, editorialists say.
NYT Editor Denies His Paper’s Role in Setting the Agenda It Reports On
Kahn is committed to denying that the Times—the most agenda-setting US news outlet—has any say over what issues are considered important.
NYT’s Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There
The New York Times has a long tradition of promoting fascists while crying censorship when a leftist government defends itself against coups.
TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech
It’s not a good-faith regulation to protect the populace, but an effort to either seize or severely weaken TikTok in the name of US interests.
Media Scorn Gaza Protesters for Recognizing Corporate Reporters Aren’t Their Friends
An emerging complaint corporate media have against the nationwide peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.
WaPo Lets Bigots Frame School Culture War Conversation…Again
Once again the Washington Post depicts efforts to address racial and gender bias as a bigger problem than racial and gender bias themselves.
News of Mass Graves Isn’t Much News to US Outlets
The discovery of mass graves in Gaza “horrified” the UN rights chief. But it has yet to prompt so strong a reaction from US news outlets.
Acknowledging the Horrors of Gaza—Without Wanting to End Them
Media’s challenge is to frame the “plausible” genocide in a way that will not undermine long-term US/Israeli domination of Palestine.
‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’:
Interview with Estela Aranha on 'Twitter Files Brazil'
“I know all of the cases that they cherry-picked their text fragments from. They stitched together excerpts.”
