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It isn’t merely that it’s no part of journalists’ job to stoke misty visions of powerful public figures, dead or living; asserting that George H.W. Bush was America’s lovable Grandpa—that only the insolent would gainsay such an image—erases the many people harmed grievously by his actions and inactions.
NPR, using Amazon’s spokespeople and paraphrasing a nebulous cohort of “economists,” recast “criticism,” such that it is, as a generic, sanitized critique against an industry trend presumably out of Amazon‘s control, rather than directing criticism at Amazon.
The real point of the 925-word story, by Gannett Washington reporter Ledyard King, was conveyed in the print edition’s subhead: “Policies Could Carry Risk for Leaders of New House.”
It’s unclear why the Times thinks readers would be puzzled by a phrase like “a person with a heroin addiction,” and that dehumanizing language is the only way to convey to their audience that a person uses drugs.
Clearly, left-wing violence is near nonexistent when compared to the rising levels of right-wing extremism.
“Move to the right” is always corporate media’s advice for Democrats—win or lose. But did the 2018 midterms really demonstrate the virtues of moderation?
The US government and its allies are effectively using the platform to silence dissenting opinion, both at home and on the world stage, controlling what Facebook‘s 2 billion users see and do not see.
If one takes a minimalist approach to free speech, centering on the First Amendment guarantee not to be jailed or otherwise harmed by the state for expressing one’s views, then it’s clear that Bannon’s disinvitation doesn’t violate such a right.
“Kavanaugh almost always deferred to the president on executive power…. Kavanaugh has a record of dangerous deference to the president.”
The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party received a flurry of negative coverage by corporate media that focused on progressives’ supposed inability to defeat Democratic incumbents in primary elections.
That so many corporate media outlets can uniformly whitewash a right-wing war hawk with links to fascists as a “human rights champion” and “defender of democracy” is a testament to just how beholden corporate media are to US government interests.
“…the sad truth is that there are jurisdictions around the country that have made it more difficult for people to vote at each and every stage of that process.”
The Washington Post ran three articles between Sunday, June 24, and Monday, June 25, calling for “civility” and criticizing those who interfered with the dining experiences of Trump administration officials.
It is a premise that data collection goes on in order to convict us of a crime that has not yet happened, that we haven’t committed. And we need to turn that whole structure on its head, which is to say that data needs to serve a public safety purpose, or there is no reason to collect it.
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored.
GOP Attacks, NYT Parrots… With Neutrality Like This, Who Needs Allies?… Facebook’s Foreign-Funded Watchdog on Foreign Influence… Frank of Dodd/Frank Now Frank of the Bank… NYT Accepts That Charging Feminists With Treason ‘Undermines Reformist Credentials’… Staff Cartoonist Rob Rogers Fired
Bourdain’s death should be a wake-up call to people from documentary filmmakers to independent media outfits wanting to use the internet in creative ways: There’s a hunger among regular people in the US for the unvarnished realities of the rest of the world, and major media are serving up precious little to feed it.
What counts as “far left” to the Washington Post, the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest human?
As Israel killed scored and wounded thousands of Palestinians protesting in Gaza, considerable space in US coverage of the massacres was devoted to blaming Palestinians for their own slaughter.
A survey by FAIR (4/18/18) of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria.
