Trump Briefings? Always News. Biden Briefings? Not News.
Just a month into Joe Biden’s term, CNN has unceremoniously stopped airing daily White House press briefings.
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Guardian Columnist’s Firing Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper’s Rightward Drift
The Guardian has fired one of its columnists for its US edition, Nathan Robinson, because Robinson jokingly tweeted about US military aid to Israel.
WaPo Curates the Memory of George Shultz
Assessments that judge George Shultz to be one of “the good guys,” with a commitment to things like freedom, human dignity and humanity, necessarily gloss over his role in both the Iraq War and the Iran/Contra scandal.
Who Is Aleksei Navalny? NYT Once Knew, but Has Since Forgotten
A New York Times headline asks a good question that the accompanying story completely fails to answer.
NYT’s China Syndrome
Too good or not good enough, China’s coronavirus response is an obsession of the New York Times.
ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT About Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True
Please tell the New York Times to set the historical record straight by correcting its story to note that Daniel Ellsberg did in fact give the Pentagon Papers to the Times.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Erases US Economic War Against Venezuela
Please remind the New York Times that as a US paper, it has an obligation to cover the effects of US government policy on countries like Venezuela.
NYT Cheerleads School Reopening as Covid Spikes
New York’s mayor’s dubious plan to reopen schools has found the New York Times to be its best form of public relations.
ACTION ALERT: At NYT, Now You See Corporate Influence, Now You Don’t
By assigning particular reporters to the “corporate influence” beat, the New York Times seems to let others reporters off the hook in terms of providing relevant information about officials’ corporate influences.
NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
NPR gave readers a variety of viewpoints, giving the readers the choice of which set of facts they want to accept as true.
How Not to Interview a Toddler
Whatever happens on and after November 3, one thing seems pretty clear: We can count on 60 Minutes to cover it in a way that props up the status quo.
ACTION ALERT: With Planet at Stake, Moderators Must Make Climate a Focus of Debates
Contact the debate moderators today and tell them to make the climate crisis a key focus of the debates.
Voters Should be Wary of USA Today’s False Balance on Election 2020
Outlets like USA Today overstate Trump’s support and create the impression of a balance that doesn’t exist.
Democracy Dies in Obfuscation
In the extensive genre of corporate media obfuscation about right-wing paramilitary violence, a WaPo piece stands out even amidst some tough competition.
When It Comes to the Truth of Opinion Columns, It’s Reader Beware
The source for the “conspiracy theory” that Trump was blocking funding to the post office to prevent mail-in voting was…Donald Trump.
At Washington Post, Defunding Police Is a Step Too Radical
Washington Post coverage has paternalistically painted police defunding as a radical utopian fantasy that would hurt Black communities.
NYT Urges Biden to Shun His Party’s ‘Left-Leaning Brand’
As the Democratic National Convention kicks off, election season is finally heating up again—which means it’s time for corporate media to get back to flogging their “move to the center” horse when covering Democrats.
Reuters (Unsurprisingly) Looks Away as Ecuador Tries to Outlaw Opposition Parties
Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of US allies in the Americas. Whether those allies are bureaucrats from the Organization of American States and the dictatorship they helped install in Bolivia (FAIR.org, 12/17/19), violent protesters in Nicaragua (FAIR.org, 8/23/18) or Venezuelan politicians who support lethal US sanctions on their own […]
ACTION ALERT: Newsweek Should Disavow Racist Insinuation That Kamala Harris Is Not a Citizen
Please contact Newsweek’s editors and demand that they retract the op-ed insinuating that Kamala Harris (like millions of other Americans) is not a US citizen.
Worries About Foreign ‘Hacking’ of Vaccine Research Place Corporate Profits Ahead of Public Health
Does it make sense to describe the alleged actions of Russian and Chinese hackers as a form of “theft”? If so, what kind of “theft” is it?
