Progressives are told to love the Pentagon budget (Bloomberg, 3/17/19) by a pundit whose connection to the military/industrial complex isn’t disclosed. You may not know it, but bloated Pentagon…
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The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend
Republican pollster Ed Goeas (The Hill, 12/3/18) says he has “warned many of my Democratic friends that they are facing something in the Democratic Party much like what we…
When India Tries to Regulate Amazon, US Media Qualms About Monopoly Disappear
…Post, 2/4/19). As Adam Johnson documented, more broadly, US outlets lap up opportunities to render Bezos and his company in a flattering light (FAIR.org, 7/28/17). In this case, the alignment…
ACTION ALERT: MSNBC’s ‘Resistance’ to Trump’s Venezuela Coup Ranges from Silence to Support
After much behind the scenes angling and plotting, the Trump administration is now waging an overt campaign to overthrow the government of Venezuela—coordinating directly with the Venezuelan military, lobbying…
Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt
CNN (2/7/19) The Trump administration’s now completely overt effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had a very successful public relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly…
The Media’s Profitable, Indefensible Addiction to Mugshots
by Adam Johnson CJR (10/24/18) examines the ethics of publishing mugshots without talking to anyone actually in a mugshot. The Columbia Journalism Review (10/24/18) ran a piece by Corey Hutchins…
Stronger in 2019!
…USA Today, NBC Go Full Breitbart on ‘Prisoners Eating Steak’ Non-Story, by Adam Johnson A Tough Time to Be a Spy, NPR Reports, by Belen Fernandez CounterSpin: Chip Gibbons on…
WaPo, USA Today, NBC Go Full Breitbart on ‘Prisoners Eating Steak’ Non-Story
NBC (1/6/19) The United States, by all objective metrics, has one of the cruelest, most inhumane prison systems in the world. In addition to having 25 percent of the…
