Adam Johnson (Column, 2/3/25): “The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN ran with the framing that ‘DOGE’ was some good-faith, post-ideological effort to ‘cut costs,’ ‘find savings’ and…
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Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)
…conversation we had in August 2017 in the wake of the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Writer and podcaster Adam Johnson had thoughts about the way so-called “mainstream”…
Corporate Media Push Conspiracy Theories to Discredit Student Protesters
…Mayor Eric Adams was an early source of this claim, announcing at a press conference (4/30/24) that Columbia students have “been co-opted by professional outside agitators.” He made a similar…
NYT Invents a Bipartisan Anti-Immigrant Consensus
…and Republicans has become bipartisan demands for action”—falsely suggesting a meeting of the minds between Johnson, the progressive Chicago mayor and a reactionary like Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. The…
Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage
…rather than “assaults.” Adam Johnson (FAIR.org, 4/9/18) explains that “clash” is “a reporter’s best friend when they want to describe violence without offending anyone in power—in the words of George…
Trump’s Idling Plane Got More TV Coverage Than Biden Cutting Healthcare for 15 Million
…from the rolls, reversing the record-low uninsured rate reached early last year. But if you were watching TV news, you might have missed it. Adam Johnson, a former FAIR contributor…
‘Media and Government Excuses Are Basically Intertwined’
…Schwarz at the Intercept, Derek Seidman at Truthout, also Marjorie Cohn, Adam Johnson at Real News—about how these visible architects of the Iraq War, in government, but also in think…
20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame
…to accept its repeated and forceful denials that it had any secret banned weaponry. ‘Carried and amplified’ Adam Johnson (Real News Network, 3/17/23): “Not only have none of the hawks…
