Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics
News media need to locate the climate fight in the boardrooms of greedy people perversely trying to wring every last dime from our shared future.
‘They Are Trying to Maximize the Amount of Money They Can Get Any Given Consumer to Pay’:
CounterSpin interview with Katya Schwenk on AI surveillance pricing
“Consumers don’t actually have very much choice in many of these circumstances. So it’s not like they’re able to choose a lower fare from a competitor, often.”
‘The Government’s Own Disclosures Demonstrate These Strikes Are Not Lawful’:
CounterSpin interview with Jeffrey Stein on Trump's boat attacks
“The public should be able to read the government’s legal justification right now, while there’s still an opportunity to stop these illegal and dangerous strikes.”
‘These Changes Are Reducing Our Power to Effect Positive Change for Families’:
CounterSpin interview with Cara Brumfield on erasing federal data
“Manipulating the Decennial Census for political gain is so deeply undemocratic, and we need to talk about it in those terms.”
As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its own—not against fascism, but against progressivism.
‘Decades of National Security Policy Have Gotten Us to Where We Are’:
CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on Trump's plan to crush the left
“It’s not just that it’s written in such a way that it opens the door to political policing. That was the original intent.”
Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies
The Trump administration is throwing real reporters out of the Pentagon even as Trump is using the military in unprecedented ways.
Jeffrey Stein on Trump’s Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing
Corporate reporters scratch their heads over how this bombing campaign might be legal, rather than discussing what tools can respond to wildly illegal actions.
Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda
Rather than scrutinize María Corina Machado credentials, the media establishment whitewashed the most unpeaceful elements in her background.
To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes
While most media outlets consistently describe the ceasefire as “fragile” and “delicate”, they won’t state the obvious: If you don’t cease firing, it’s not a ceasefire.
Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.
‘You Had US Media Carrying Out Incitement to Genocide, and Then Shifting to Genocide Denial’
CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on how to deny genocide
“It’s necessary…for this genocide to unfold, to have the American public either ginned up for the violence, or confused about it.”
WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
Trump’s Portland Lies Euphemized as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.
Flotilla Coverage Both-Sidesed Delivering Food to Starving People
News outlets took care to balance the humanitarian activists trying to bring food to a starving population with defenders of a genocidal regime.
NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.
Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial
Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.
Jared Kushner ‘Out of the Spotlight’—But Not Out of Mideast Politics, or Out of the Money
There are so many conflicts of interest around Jared Kushner that it’s hard to avoid covering them–yet journalists do so remarkably well.
The Wall Street Journal Has Many Ways to Deny Genocide
Those who deny the Gaza genocide are intellectually and morally equivalent to Holocaust deniers–yet the Wall Street Journal persists in running such denial.
CBS’s Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.
