WaPo So Worried About Deficit It Wants to Increase Pentagon Budget by Half
Three days after its editorial fretting about the deficit, the Washington Post applauded Trump’s proposal to increase military spending by 50%.
Media Sidelined Deadly Consequences of Trump’s Reconciliation Bill
Many of the bill’s key provisions—including Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy cuts—will be literally deadly for people in the US and abroad.
NYT Obscured Worst Harms of Trump’s Budget
Through inaction and poor coverage, the New York Times undermined opposition to some of the Trump reconciliation bill’s most damaging policies.
Silky Shah on Mass Deportation
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
Massive Expansion of Trump’s Deportation Machine Passes With Little Press Notice
US corporate media outlets have refrained from delving too deeply into what exactly this massive ramping up of ICE portends for American society.
‘This Isn’t Just About Policy, It’s About What Kind of Nation We Want to Be’:
CounterSpin interview with LaToya Parker on Trump budget's racial impact
“The ultra-wealthy get billions in tax breaks, while Black families lose the very programs that have historically provided pathways to the middle class.”
Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
‘Trump and Musk Are Attacking the Ability of Government to Protect Ordinary People’:
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Hauser on DOGE after Musk
“Taking seriously the notion that Musk was some sort of deficit hawk is part of the inanity of American political coverage.”
Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal
Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.
‘Work Requirements Have Produced the Same Results Over and Over Again’:
CounterSpin interview with Bryce Covert on work requirements
“This is not about, in fact, helping people to work. This is, instead, about kicking people off the program.”
Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’
The feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we’re just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.
‘This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light’:
CounterSpin interview with Ashley Nunes on public land selloff
“This budget proposal is one of the worst attacks on the environment that we have seen in our lifetime.”
Leading Papers Give Two Cheers for DOGE
Criticism of DOGE by major editorial boards has been weak, and often overshadowed by the boards’ support for the ideas behind DOGE or DOGE itself.
Covering Attack on USAID as if Constitutional Restraints Were Up for Debate
Corporate media failed to foreground the authoritarian threat of Trump and Musk’s USAID takedown.
AP Describes Musk’s Coup as ‘Penchant for Dabbling’
“Musk is popping open the hood on the federal government like it’s one of his cars or rockets.”
WaPo Provides Cover for Musk’s Government Takeover
It wasn’t just Jeff Bezos’s company that threw Elon Musk a lifeline, but also his newspaper.
As Constitutional Crises Mount, US Press Sleepwalks Into Autocracy
The New York Times and Washington Post largely downplayed the Trump administration’s earth-shattering break from democratic norms.
ACTION ALERT: When Trump Tried to Freeze Federal Funds, WaPo Saw Not Illegality But ‘Determination’
When Trump usurped Congress’s power of the purse, the Beltway paper declared this “highlights” the administration’s “determination.”
To Be a Media Expert on Economics, It Helps to Have the Right Politics
Corporate news outlets consistently elevate the views of specific economists who serve particular ideological interests, even over the views of the academic profession as a whole.
‘We Line Up Policy With Campaign Contributions From Oil and Gas’
“That we should let climate change go unaddressed until the human race goes extinct…is a cornerstone of the Republican Party’s agenda.”
