Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation
Gaza’s conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.
America’s Opinion Pages Overwhelmingly Supported Trump’s Attack on Iran
56% of Americans opposed Trump’s bombing. Why wasn’t this reflected in the range of opinions presented by America’s top press outlets?
‘People Don’t Want to Be Complicit in War Crimes’:
CounterSpin interview with Iman Abid on the genocide economy
“Weapons manufacturers and large corporations have been extremely disappointed in what the world is able to finally see.”
Thom Hartmann on Epstein & MAGA, Han Shan (2009) on Ken Saro-Wiwa
To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.
Paramount Sells Out Journalism to Secure Purchase by Skydance
The latest moves from CBS’s owners mark the latest seismic shift to the right in the US media landscape.
‘They Were Able to Pass These Bills Because of Anti-Trans Media Bias’:
Documentary filmmaker Sam Feder on the backlash to trans visibility
“Heightened Scrutiny examines the relationship between the media’s coverage of trans rights and the anti-trans legislation we have seen balloon.”
‘The Current Commercial System Will Always Fail Democracy’:
CounterSpin interview with Victor Pickard on Paramount settlement
“Much of what we’re talking about is really trying to figure out the structures that would allow journalists to be journalists.”
Writing About the Oil Business and Ignoring the Fate of the Earth
Despite the dire backsliding on climate policy, with consequences that are clear as day, it’s business as usual in the realm of business news.
‘ICE Operates Within a Broader Apparatus Around Criminalization and the Deportation Machine’:
CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on mass deportation
“They’re actually using immigration enforcement as a pretense to go after people who don’t agree with their ideas.”
Iman Abid on the Economy of Genocide, Victor Pickard on Paramount Settlement
The UN’s Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.
NYT Obscured Worst Harms of Trump’s Budget
Through inaction and poor coverage, the New York Times undermined opposition to some of the Trump reconciliation bill’s most damaging policies.
NYT Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.
On CNN, LA’s ICE Protesters Were Seen and Not Heard
A FAIR study found that CNN’s primetime coverage of the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests in early June rarely included the voices of the protesters themselves.
‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’:
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
“These billionaires believe that there should be only two choices, and they should both be acceptable to the billionaires.”
Silky Shah on Mass Deportation
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
Massive Expansion of Trump’s Deportation Machine Passes With Little Press Notice
US corporate media outlets have refrained from delving too deeply into what exactly this massive ramping up of ICE portends for American society.
Cartoonists Can Compare Victims of Genocide to Nazis—But Not the Perpetrators
Right-wing media and pro-Israel pressure groups still have the capacity to threaten the employment of cartoonists who do not toe the pro-Israel line.
‘The Goal Is to Put the Words “Iran” and “Nuclear” in the Same Sentence’:
CounterSpin interview with Adam Johnson on media in war mode
“The scope of debate…is not ‘Do we have any legitimacy to be bombing Iran?’ but ‘Is bombing Iran the best way to stop them from enriching uranium?’”
I Covered the Intifada. It’s Wrong to Say It Means Violence Against Jews.
I can say unequivocally: Intifada was used by Palestinian activists to describe a civil resistance movement rooted in dignity and national self-determination.
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
