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‘This Is the People’s Game, and They Are Turning It Into the Plutocrats’ Game’: CounterSpin interview with Jules Boykoff on World Cup 'sportswashing'
“The FIFA World Cup provides us with a chance to actually come together for real, and defend our communities against an invading force that is FIFA.”
‘Buffer Zone’ Is Media’s Euphemism for Israeli Occupation
Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize US-backed Israeli land grabs in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.
Jules Boykoff on World Cup and ‘Sportswashing’
Sports has always been a big part of news media, but typically segregated into its own section on stats and personalities, ignoring the economic, social and environmental impacts sports have always had.
Slashing Climate, Weather and Ocean Research to Pay for 32 Hours of Iran War
While cuts to NOAA would substantially harm the agency’s work, the proposed “savings” of $1.6 billion is equivalent to the costs of 1.3 days of the war on Iran.
‘It Was About Using the Levers of Government to Bully or Intimidate’: CounterSpin interview with Angelo Carusone on Media Matters v. FTC
“What we showed is that you don’t have to take this. You could go to court, and you can get these demands shut down before they even get a chance to start.”
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Chinese ‘Imperialism’ in Hong Kong Concerns US Media; Puerto Rican, Palestinian Colonies, Not So Much
While one cannot describe China’s national security law as an act of “colonialism” or “imperialism,” since Hong Kong is part of China, FAIR conducted a study comparing media coverage of Hong Kong’s national security law and actual colonialism by the US in Puerto Rico, and by its ally Israel in Palestine.
In Pandemic, Sunday Shows Centered Official Voices, Sidelined Independent Health Experts
On the networks’ Sunday morning political talk shows, which play an important role in setting agendas for national political debate, the voices asked to participate were overwhelmingly the usual narrow cast of Beltway actors, with independent public health experts playing a marginal role, and public interest voices almost entirely sidelined.
As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
Debate Moderators Frame Questions to Define Acceptable Politics
Media debate hosts use their platform less to inform voters in an even-handed way than to define which positions—and candidates—are acceptable, and which are not.
ABC Asking for Attacks Was a Lazy Way to Run a Debate
Election Focus 2020: The first half hour of the debate was almost entirely given over to non-policy sparring over electability (including the bogeyman of socialism) and experience.
