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Corporate media seemed to take every opportunity to vilify the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement by spinning the protesters—rather than the racist and authoritarian US regime they are protesting against—as the primary instigators of violence and theft, in addition to preemptively blaming them for Trump’s reelection.
Most of the national reporting on protests of the latest police killing in Philadelphia was deliberately inflammatory and even frightening.
“The Nixon administration went about policing drugs…as if it were a real war. The same way that we would fight foreign adversaries, we were fighting our own citizens.”
Corporate media prioritize the supposed “risks” to the electoral prospects of Democrats who call for banning fracking over the prospects for human civilization’s survival.
Washington Post coverage has paternalistically painted police defunding as a radical utopian fantasy that would hurt Black communities.
Emerging as a corporate media frame is a sloppy, mystifying confusion that refuses to distinguish the racist and sexist slurs against Harris from an authentic discussion of the trajectory of her political positions.
Establishment media overwhelmingly turned to columnists, pundits and government officials for interpretation of the uprisings—rather than to the activists facing tear gas on the frontlines.
Armed supporters of a far-right politician holding Confederate flags and attacking people in broad daylight in front of police, in a place like East Texas with a history of white supremacist violence, is an important event with national implications about the growing boldness and militancy of the far right.
Lack of a BLM Covid Spike Should Make Us Listen to Epidemiologists Though joined by many other outlets, the Atlantic was particularly urgent in its warnings that protests against police violence would create a new spike of Covid-19 cases. “The wave of mass protests across the United States will almost certainly set off new chains […]
Media need to stop saying “missteps” when they mean sustained, systemic failures. Journalists ought to speak plainly, including when they’re talking to themselves.
“There are lawsuits being filed in support of the real power, and that is the power of the people.”
Militarized federal agents have been deployed with a mission reflected in Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s comment that city streets are a “battlespace,” filled with what Homeland Security Acting Chief Chad Wolf called “violent mobs.”
While national corporate media outlets have offered Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby a wide platform to brand herself as a progressive prosecutor, local and independent media have been publishing reports that challenge her office’s record in practice.
A New York Times article plays up political distinctions to paint epidemiologists and other health experts as hypocritical, feeding the media narrative that they were “politicizing science.”
A conversation that excludes sheriffs from talk of police abolition and/or reform is missing a critical element.
“It’s particularly critical, in a moment where we are protesting police brutality and over-surveillance and the over-militarization of police, to take into account how advanced technologies like face recognition play into historical injustices and over-surveilling of communities of color.”
A Photo Bill of Right’s language about how photographers should use “informed consent,” especially in the context of the current protests against police brutality, has caused a stir among journalists.
As protests against police violence erupted around the nation, Twitter and Facebook were filled with videos of heavily armored police forces indiscriminately pepper-spraying marchers, firing flashbangs at crowds containing children and the elderly, and shooting projectiles at people standing outside their own homes. To most of those immersed in the social media environment, looted or […]
By relying on CIA testimony, media shift the focus away from the tyranny in our own backyard in favor of pointing fingers at the “despotic leaders” of “the Third World”—never mind the fact that the US has no qualms with oppressive leadership in the Middle East when it aligns with our interests.
The reaction from corporate media to Trump’s threat to crush an anti-racist rebellion was to chastise his move as “un-American,” obscuring the domestic sources of inspiration for his vicious crackdown.
