NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies
The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.
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WaPo: When Israeli Leaders Commit War Crimes, They Can Prosecute Themselves
The Washington Post argued that rules needn’t apply to the West and its allies, since they have the “means [and] mechanisms to investigate themselves.”
NPR’s ‘Balance’ Serves to Normalize Trump’s Highly Abnormal Cabinet Picks
NPR’s coverage of Trump’s nominees so far suggests that it has no interest in using the power of the so-far-still-free press to preserve democratic institutions.
Chris Matthews Garbles It All for You
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews used his post-election appearance on Morning Joe to demonstrate just how unhelpful political commentary can be.
WaPo Says Not to Worry About Climate Disruption’s Disastrous Costs:
Reassuring report based on long-debunked climate contrarian
The Washington Post’s “Climate Lab” seems to be working hard to cast doubt on whether climate change is really causing weather disasters to be more expensive.
CPB Funds Ideological Overseers at NPR in Response to Right-Wing Criticism
CPB declared it was giving NPR $1.9 million in “editorial enhancement” funding–using language that reads as a direct response to the recent right-wing criticism.
For NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
Exposing Bias Against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Predictably Accused of Bias by CBS
Host Tony Dokoupil began the interview with an aggressive monologue that effectively dismissed Coates’ and his worldview, painting him as a radical not worth listening to.
New Yorker Sides With Right Against Childless Cat Ladies
The message of Emma Green’s one-sided New Yorker piece is that the issue of declining birth rates is not economic, but a spiritual rot in contemporary society.
CNN’s Tapper Smears Tlaib With Baseless Charge of Bias
CNN’s Jake Tapper took a baseless accusation made on X and elevated it to a national story, smearing Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib as antisemitic.
Not Reporting on Trump as a Threat to Democracy Is Also a Threat to Democracy
Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.
Sanders’ Convention Speech Attacked by NYT for Advocating Popular Policies
The specific policies the New York Times scolds Bernie Sanders for promoting don’t seem to be particularly unpopular, with moderates or anyone else.
Abandoning Popular Policies Is Crucial to Victory, WaPo Tells Harris
The Washington Post implores Kamala Harris to abandon progressive policy priorities and mercilessly turn her back on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
NYT’s Predictable Advice for Kamala Harris: Go Right
As the Democratic Party began to coalesce behind Kamala Harris, the New York Times quickly put forward the knee-jerk corporate media prescription for Democratic candidates: Move to the right.
Crime Is Way Down—But NYT Won’t Stop Telling Voters to Worry About Crime
In a rational world, voters would be aware that crime went down sharply during the Biden/Harris administration.
NYT Unleashes the Lab Leak Theory on the Public Debate Once Again
A Times guest essay recapitulates the misrepresentation, selective quotation and faulty logic that has characterized so much of the pro—lab leak side of the Covid origin discourse.
CNN’s Debate Plan Makes Democracy the Likely Loser
Of the major nonpartisan news networks (i.e., excluding Fox), CNN is perhaps the least fit to host a presidential debate.
Kristof’s Burden: Global Journalist Supports Closed Borders
“It’s better that the ladder be raised in an orderly way by reasonable people.”
NYT Misses What’s True and Important About an Anti-Trans School Resolution
Like most New York Times articles about trans politics that FAIR has analyzed, the piece marginalized the voices of those most impacted.
NYT Editor Denies His Paper’s Role in Setting the Agenda It Reports On
Kahn is committed to denying that the Times—the most agenda-setting US news outlet—has any say over what issues are considered important.
