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A New York Times story today (10/28/11) by Jennifer Steinhauer on the state of bipartisanship in Washington noted: Outside of a few recent flashes of light–the passage of three trade bills this month, and an agreement on patent reform–there have been no big bipartisan jobs initiatives in this Congress. The idea that trade deals with […]
Corporate media’s incredibly uncritical boosterism of so-called “free trade” deals has been remarked on many times, and continues to be remarkable. What else but blind faith would allow a story to carry a line like one in the October 12 New York Times, about textile industry opposition to the new deal with South Korea: “The […]
New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer takes a look (8/26/11) at U.S. trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that are currently languishing in Congress. The piece calls them “free-trade” agreements, which is generally misleading: Trade deals usually involve complicated horse-trade negotiations regarding tariffs, patent protection and the like–meaning they make trade in some […]
New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane wrote a response (of a sort) to the criticisms that the paper’s reporting on Iranian missiles was fundamentally flawed. It’s hard to believe thathis column was meant be taken seriously. To review: The Times published a story, based ona WikiLeaks cable,onNovember 29 alleging that Iran possesses powerful missiles […]
When “journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling stepped back onto American soil after being detained in North Korea for over four months. Their safe return was covered widely in the American media, and rightfully so,” writes Women In Media & News guest blogger Tristin Aaron (8/12/09), “yet their reason for traveling to North Korea has […]
Discussing (5/31/09) the “story on the two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea,” NPR Check‘s Mytwords states clearly that it “deserves coverage, as did some coverage of [Roxana] Saberi’s arrest in Iran (though not the wall to wall attention given by NPR).” But a reader‘s link to the L.A. Times‘ May 24 “article on another […]
Noticing that “many of the headlines greeting North Korea’s nuclear blast yesterday carried the phrase ‘as big as the Hiroshima bomb’ or words to that effect,” media writer and Hiroshima in America co-author Greg Mitchell (Editor & Publisher, 5/26/09) says “that’s not the only reference point that Hiroshima should evoke”: Simply stated: The fact that […]
