Bloomberg Muddies Climate Protests’ Vital Message: End Fossil Fuels
News media muddy the waters, encouraging public apathy by focusing on protesters’ tactics at the expense of their demands.
Bloomberg Hits BRICS as US Power Challenged
The prospect of a group of nations working together to advance independent development sent the Bloomberg news service into attack mode.
You Don’t Need to Believe China About China’s Coronavirus Success
The reality is that it’s very hard to hide an epidemic. Stopping a virus requires identifying and isolating cases of infection, and if you pretend to have done so when you really haven’t, the uncaught cases will grow exponentially.
Julie Hollar on Election 2020 Coverage
Election Focus 2020: Voters are looking for substantive reporting on candidates’ public records. But as we record the show, the major election story seems to be about Joe Biden’s leg hair.
Bloomberg’s Armsmaker-Funded Columnist Wants You to Know: Military Spending Is Woke
You may not know it, but bloated Pentagon budgets are actually “progressive.” Or so says a recent opinion piece in Bloomberg News.
Halloween Comes Early as Bloomberg Tries to Scare Kids With Debt Monster
Bloomberg only examines the debt side of the ledger. It’s almost impossible to exaggerate how absurd this is.
For Corporate Media, Bloomberg Is the Better Billionaire
That so many media elites threw their lot behind Michael Bloomberg—a man whose primary accomplishments as mayor were austerity and racist policing—shows just how little policy matters in so much of this conversation.
With Wall Street Fees in Danger, Bloomberg Tries to Make Mom and Pop Afraid
If Bloomberg were interested in views other than those of the financial industry, it might have found some people who supported a financial transaction tax to provide comments for its article. Or it might have tried some basic arithmetic itself.
Most Americans Agree That Netanyahu, the Only One Who Can Save the Puppy, Should Save the Puppy
You can see propaganda being manufactured before your eyes: Any subtleties are ironed out to create an assertion that the American people are calling for Netanyahu to speak.
Employee Free Choice for ‘Very Slow Reporters’
Asking “Can We Get Reporters to Stop Saying That EFCA Takes Away the Secret Ballot?” Dean Baker bluntly states (Beat the Press, 5/7/09) that “it’s not true.” Even though this is one of the “most often repeated lines of the opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act”–“that it will deny workers the right to vote […]
