Manchin’s Coal Conflict of Interest Not of Interest to Corporate News
Corporate media don’t tell their audience that Sen. Joe Manchin has a giant conflict of interest in the matter of fossil fuels.
As US Broils and Europe Floods, Media Dismiss EU Climate Plan as ‘Ambitious’
When humans seek to take aggressive action against climate change, reporters frame those goals as lofty and unlikely to succeed.
‘That’s Lethal, Communities Completely Exposed to This Kind of Heat’
“Wealthier communities have been designed to have more trees, because of a variety of racial covenants and redlining policies.”
Vera Eidelman on Fourth of July Freedoms, Vivek Shandas on Addressing Climate Change
How do we protect our society from campaigns to stop people from voting or speaking or going into the street to protest things that are wrong?
‘The Goal of These Ads Is to Distract From Their Actual Business Model’
“Every time there’s a real challenge to their power, they say, “Oh, we’re ready to change, things are going to be different this time.”
Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to ‘Save the World’
Because stories of youth resistance are powerful and deserve to be told, it’s time to reevaluate the way that media have been telling them.
Jaisal Noor on Worker Co-Ops, Duncan Meisel on Fossil Fuel Greenwashing
In the way they balance worker health and company success, worker co-ops complicate corporate media’s economic storyline.
‘Hedge Fund Managers Bleed Companies of Their Capabilities’
“The money that the company spent on buying those outstanding shares in the stock buyback could have been used to develop new products, it could have been used for innovation, it could have been used to maintain and attract talent.”
Tim Karr on Paying for Fox News Racism, Lynn Parramore on Hedge Funds vs. Green New Deal
Tucker Carlson spews harmful nonsense like it’s his job, which it is, and he gets some $10 million a year from it—but did you know that, if you have cable, you’re paying into that income?
Sunday Shows Hit Snooze on Climate Alarm
If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, journalists have to move beyond debating its existence or importance, and start looking at both its causes—very concretely, looking at culprits—and its solutions.
‘Divisive’: How Corporate Media Dismiss Ideas Unpopular With Elites
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (Twitter, 12/29/20) described a $2,000 Covid relief check as “divisive,” even though 75% of Americans (and 72% of Republicans) wanted the government to prioritize another universal payment. All too often, words such as “divisive,” “contentious” or “controversial” are used merely as media codewords meaning “ideas unpopular with the […]
‘City Officials Improved the Climate-Readiness of the Code; Industry Groups Pushed Back’
“This is essentially bringing a national standard in line with secular trends in the industry that ultimately save the homeowners money, when they don’t have to adapt a home that wasn’t built to these new technological standards.”
Ernesto Falcon on Internet for All, Alexander Kaufman on Future-Proofed Housing Codes
It’s almost as if the corporate press accepted the existence of information haves and have-nots, because that’s how goods get divided in this country—even if it doesn’t make technological, economic or humanitarian sense.
‘The System Worked as Designed in Texas; That’s the Really Scary Thing’
“We at Food & Water Watch have called publicly, loudly, for a public takeover of electric utilities and power generation, so that it can actually be governed democratically for the good of the people.”
Power Analysis Failure
The way the New York Times covered the Texas energy crisis obscured rather than illuminated its causes.
Mitch Jones on Texas Freeze-Outs, Joe Torres on News for All the People
If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do a little more challenging themselves.
‘The US Has Been Obstructionist in Chief in Global Climate Talks’
“If we confine the narrative only to what seems politically realistic in today’s Congress, we are completely missing centuries of history and lessons from social movements, because what social movements do is they redefine what is politically possible.”
Basav Sen on Biden Climate Policy, Hannah Sassaman on Prometheus v. FCC
The disasters of climate disruption have next to no relationship to what corporate media say is “feasible” to address them.
Media’s Messaging Debate Eclipses Policies—and the Crises They Address
In coverage of Democratic positions on healthcare and climate change, the overwhelming emphasis was on electoral strategy, and not on the problems these policy proposals were designed to solve.
Press Worries About a Fracking Ban’s ‘Risk’ to Democrats—Not Fracking’s Threat to Planet
Whenever there are discussions about enacting a national fracking ban, corporate media seem to prioritize the supposed short-term potential “risks” to Democrats’ electoral prospects, or potential economic downturns, over the long-term prospects for human civilization’s survival.
