‘You Are Exacerbating the Racial Wealth Gap Through the Use of Subsidies’
“The scrutiny that we give every spending dollar that seems to come out of a city budget is not at all applied in the same way to companies.”
‘Ill-Equipped,’ ‘1950s’ Pentagon Needs an Expensive Upgrade, Media Insist
News outlets routinely caution that the Pentagon needs billions of dollars’ worth of improvements to systems, personnel and technology.
‘The One Part of Our Retirement Income System That Works Is Social Security’
“The opponents of Social Security have latched onto this unsurprising, manageable shortfall, and talked about the building’s on fire.”
Nancy Altman on GOP Social Security Attack, Daniel Ellsberg Revisited
When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling.
WaPo Mad That Debt Ceiling Deal Didn’t Cut Social Security
If there’s one thing the Washington Post doesn’t like about the debt ceiling deal, it’s that it didn’t cut Social Security.
WSJ Celebrates Making It Harder for Poor People to Access Food
The Wall Street Journal’s unspoken premise is rather than having food as a basic human right, people should be threatened with starvation.
For Media, Giving in to Debt Limit Blackmail Was a Triumph of Bipartisanship
Media legitimizing the GOP’s economic hostage-taking allowed the party to stick with it without fear of massive political blowback.
WSJ Worries Debt Limit Fight Could Jeopardize Military Contractors’ Profits
The Wall Street Journal hand-wrings about the area of the discretionary budget that appears least likely to face cuts.
NYT Fearmongers Over Debt as GOP Holds Economy Hostage
The New York Times has been engaged in outright fearmongering over the size of the US federal debt over the past several months.
ABC/WaPo Poll Creates Illusion of Public Opinion on Debt Ceiling
The poll cannot accurately represent public views on the debt ceiling, but reflects the manipulation built into the questionnaire design.
‘The Debt Ceiling Is a Completely Pointless Contrivance’
“What they really want out of all this is to basically hold the American economy hostage, so that they can extort…key spending cuts.”
Chris Lehmann on Debt Ceiling Myths, Kyle Wiens on Right to Repair’s Moment
Republican brinkmanship could devastate millions of people—along with the harm to public understanding of what’s actually going on.
WSJ Hates Tax Breaks: California Edition
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has a long history of liking tax relief only when it benefits the wealthy.
‘This Country Would Want to See Money Taken From the Pentagon and Reallocated’
“The Pentagon shouldn’t be a jobs program. If we need a jobs program in this country, and we do, we should create a jobs program.”
NYT Hypes NYC Police Spending, Buries School Cuts
The New York Times article framed the NYC budget as mainly an issue of law enforcement priorities rather than a question of austerity.
Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon
It’s hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden’s Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what’s going on.
ACTION ALERT: CNN Asks Sinema No Questions About Conflicts
Please urge CNN to ask tough questions even—or especially—of officials like Kyrsten Sinema who don’t grant many interviews.
Does Biden’s Lower Approval Rating Mean Democrats Should ‘Move to the Center’?
There are many possible explanations for Biden’s low approval ratings. Pushing for his Build Back Better legislation is not one of them.
Breaking News: AOC’s District Has Opinions
Ocasio-Cortez is an obvious target for both establishment papers like the New York Times and conservative outlets like the New York Post.
‘There’s Still an Awful Lot of Good in This Package, but You Wouldn’t Know It From Headlines’
“These numbers, these programs, these policies, as far as we’ve gotten, all come…from decades of social movements.”
