‘All These Changes Do Affect Jobs and Affect People’
“Climate change represents the first time in human history that we’ve had, as all of humanity, one problem that we need to face together, because it affects everyone on Earth.”
Rachel Meeropol on Illegal Detentions, Dan Zukowski on Climate Disruption
The Supreme Court has just denied the right to sue officials for unlawful detentions. What does that mean for accountability when powerful people make unconstitutional policy?
In a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump About Climate Change
Given the opportunity over the past four months of his presidency to ask Trump a question on climate change, no outlet has bothered to bring up the topic at all.
‘The New York Times Wants to Have a Very Circumscribed Discussion’
You need people like Bret Stephens to be the people that the Paul Krugmans and the Thomas Friedmans will argue against. And as long as that’s the only argument that we can have, then the wealthy people who own the New York Times will never see their wealth threatened.
Three Reasons Bret Stephens Should Not Be a NYT Columnist—and the Real Reason He Is One
The orthodoxy on the New York Times op-ed page isn’t “liberalism”; Bret Stephens is the third representative of his ideological niche, the anti-Trump conservative, to currently have a home there.
With Climate Denial in the White House, Will Media Echo Official Know-Nothingism?
The corporate media’s coverage of Trump’s new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, will ostensibly aid the damage to the Earth’s climate.
The Antarctic Ice Shelf Is Breaking Up–and USA Today Tells Us to ‘Chill Out’
USA Today’s headline writer picks up on notes of reassurance in an article on a global warming disaster.
‘No Agency Would Be Hit Harder Than EPA Under the President’s Budget Plan’
“One of the first things that the new EPA did was put a stop to most of the regulation for methane from oil and gas.”
Dan Goldberg on Neil Gorsuch, Marianne Lavelle on Climate Change Denial
The Washington Post published 30 articles, op-eds, blog posts and editorials on Neil Gorsuch in the 48 hours after his nomination—not a single one overtly critical or in opposition.
With White House Embracing Climate Denial, Will Corporate Media Treat It as Science?
If the public rollout of the Trump administration’s new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, is any indication, the Earth’s climate will suffer even greater, irreversible damage during the next four years. And the corporate media’s coverage of it may only make it worse.
Zaid Jilani on Trump’s Yemen Raid, Andrew Rosenberg on Science and Resistance
Some media accounts are describing the first raid on Trump’s watch as “botched,” but that’s not the same as questioning it, much less putting it in a broader context of what’s happening in Yemen and what the US is doing there.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Inaugural Protest Arrests, David Turnbull on Pipeline Resistance
Every day of the Trump administration brings new reasons to protest. But the mass arrest of hundreds of people protesting the inauguration, along with legal observers and journalists, tells us that the right to speak up still needs protection.
Action Alert: NYT Turns to Oil Consultant to Minimize Trump’s Climate Damage
The New York Times minimizes Keystone’s impact on the climate, in the service of false balance and downplaying the impact of Trump’s anti-environmental moves.
If GOP Gets Climate ‘Science’ From Breitbart, God Help the Planet
If they’re getting their information about climate disruption from sites like Breitbart, a fraudulent degree from Trump University would probably be a better education.
‘It’s About Embracing a Different Way of Life’
“A lot of people I’ve met here say, look, this is not about what happened 500 years ago. We want people to know that and learn that. This is about what they’re doing to us today.”
Rose Aguilar on Standing Rock Reporting, Michelle Chen on Samsung Labor and Environmental Abuses
Corporate Media’s main method of undermining the significance of what’s happening in North Dakota has been to simply ignore it. If that maneuver is failing, it’s due to independent media working to get the stories from Standing Rock out, despite on-the-ground intimidation and big media’s studied disinterest.
At DAPL, Confiscating Cameras as Evidence of Journalism
While elite media wait for the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to go away so they can return to presenting their own chin-stroking as what it means to take climate change seriously, independent media continue to fill the void with actual coverage.
October 2016: The Month Political Journalism Died
The presidential debates used to be the best opportunity to shed some light on key issues things. But as the debates have gone from substance to show biz, it doesn’t work that way anymore.
The Debates Are Over, and No One Asked About Climate Change
Despite the fact that the world has endured 16 consecutive months of record-breaking heat, not one of the debate moderators saw fit to ask about climate change in any of 2016’s general election debates.
Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman—No Thanks to Corporate Media
North Dakota District Judge John Grinsteiner stood up for the First Amendment by dismissing “riot” charges against Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. That’s more than you can say for most of Goodman’s corporate media colleagues.
