What Fox’s Bad Calls on Election Night 2020 Say About 2024
The main advantage in avoiding any in-person exit polling is lower cost, rather than any increase in quality.
Anonymous Sources Are Newsworthy—When They Talk to NYT, Not Seymour Hersh
The response of the nation’s major news organizations to two stories about the Nord Stream sabotage couldn’t have been more different.
Early Polling Tells You Little About Next Year’s GOP Primary
Should we really pay attention to national primary polls 11 months ahead of the first contest?The obvious answer, of course, is no.
As Right Media Hail DeSantis as ‘Woke’ Killer, Centrists Admire His Brand
Centrist media are in no way hammering DeSantis with the same vigor that their right-wing counterpoints are defending him.
As Unions Gain 273,000 Members, Media Opt for Gloomy Headlines
When numbers are a mixed bag, deciding whether to frame them positively, negatively or neutrally is a deliberate editorial decision.
Renomination of Gigi Sohn Gives Public Another Chance to Be Heard
The re-nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC, and the record-breaking delay on her vote, have been met with virtual radio silence in news media.
WaPo Feeds Denial With False Claims About Overcounting Covid Deaths
Medical commentator Leana Wen wants us to believe that society has overcounted Covid deaths and hospitalizations.
Israel’s Hard-Right Turn Fails to Raise Alarm in US Media
US press coverage has had trouble recognizing that the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu is anything other than business as usual.
In Biden Documents Story, Stenography and Scandal Take Center Stage
Many outlets focused on what each party had to say about the story—rather than what the general public ought to understand about it.
Guaidó Is Gone, but Media Dishonesty Is Here to Stay
Corporate media remain as unwilling as ever to question US foreign policy, regardless of its deadly consequences.
Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure
Reporters acknowledge and sympathize with the pain of ordinary people, but prescribe them more pain as the only way out.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine
The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo battalion “gave access to the New York Times to report on two recent riverine operations,” which culminated in a piece (11/21/22) headlined “On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians.” Since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014, establishment media […]
It’s Time to Hold News Media Accountable for Transphobia
Five people are dead and more than a dozen others injured after a gunman opened fire at Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in the early hours of November 20. November 20 is also Transgender Day of Remembrance, which memorializes victims of anti-trans violence. Two transgender people, Kelly Loving and Daniel Aston, […]
Musk’s Money Is Playing Old Games With New Media
There’s a long history of monied parties taking over media and watering them down, even breaking them up for parts.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Invents Left Extremists to Make ‘Moderation’ the Midterm Winner
Please tell the New York Times to explain how the Democrats cited in its November 14 piece qualify as “extremists.”
The Senate Can Improve Lives by Confirming Sohn to FCC
Deep-pocketed companies fight tooth and nail to keep Gigi Sohn, a public interest advocate, from advocating for the public interest.
If a Democrat Fails Into Fox News, Should It Make a Sound?
Given that Tulsi Gabbard has no particular role in the party to resign from, why is her change of party registration newsworthy at all?
US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
Commentators almost universally fingering Russia as the culprit in the pipeline sabotage, despite the lack of a plausible motive.
King Mourns Mother? Breaking News. Democracy Under Threat? Not So Much.
President Joe Biden on September 1 delivered a roughly 25-minute primetime speech from Independence Hall in Philadelphia about Trumpism’s threat to US democracy. Primetime, that is, for the two major US television networks that aired it live: MSNBC and CNN. The others—ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox—opted not to carry the address, because they deemed it […]
Biden’s Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs and Stenography
The story of Biden’s reallocation of Afghanistan’s central banking reserves wasn’t mentioned by a single TV news outlet.
