Subscribe: RSS Patrice Lumumba, 1960 (photo: Harry Pot) This week on CounterSpin: US media elites have gotten comfy with what writer Adam Johnson calls their “wall calendar version”…
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Calling Putin ‘Hitler’ to Smear Diplomacy as ‘Appeasement’
…doing so would bring more Chamberlain analogies. Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi, cohosts of the Citations Needed podcast (10/9/19), point out that the emotionally manipulative and thought-terminating comparisons to Hitler…
Mass Shooters’ Most Common Trait—Their Gender—Gets Little Press Attention
…2016 massacre (Rolling Stone, 6/13/16). Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza had a Word document on his computer explaining “why females are inherently selfish” (New Yorker, 3/10/14). University of California shooter…
Extra! Soundbites January/February 2022
…people” and “the military.” For expertise on extremism, Avlon turned to NYU professor Jonathan Haidt, who, as Adam Johnson (The Column, 12/10/21) pointed out, argues that both the left and…
Media’s Election Lesson: ‘Ambitious’ Dems Must Move to the Right
…and Seattle, centrist Eric Adams’ mayoral win in New York City, and the defeat of a ballot measure in Minneapolis to replace the troubled police department with a department of…
Why Jake Tapper Never Asks How We Pay for War
…GOP cared about deficits 2. pushing ideological cartoon agitprop about ‘national budget as family budget’ 3. Moral preening at WH pressers over national debt pic.twitter.com/Tx8UN1JmFL — Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC)…
September 11’s Never-Ending Story
…After 1,379 Days, NYT Corrects Bogus Claim Iran ‘Sponsored’ 9/11 by Adam Johnson (FAIR.org, 7/6/17) “In its reporting on a dubious lawsuit alleging Iranian meta-involvement in 9/11, the New York…
Trump’s Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn’t Mean Tech Giants’ Power Isn’t Scary
…the opportunity to share information and build communities, making them immensely important parts of the modern public square. Adam Johnson (FAIR.org, 5/21/18): “Readers should know who’s helping bankroll groups that…
