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NYT (Mis)Spells Out Debt Problem for SYRIZA A New York Times report (1/29/15) by Liz Alderman suggested that Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, from the anti-austerity SYRIZA party, doesn’t understand his country’s debt problems: When pressed to describe how Greece would pay for bonds falling due in the coming months without taking the €7 billion […]
During January, February and March of 2015, major news outlets focused on cold in the Northeast, neglecting droughts and other climate change issues.
Focusing on the cold Northeast winter, network TV has almost completely ignored the West’s record-shattering winter warmth–and failed to discuss the human-caused climate disruption the connects the two phenomena.
Speaking of the laugh riot that is climate change, have you heard the one about the pipeline that would carry a third more tar sands crude oil than Keystone XL?
New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt has a new column headlined “Inequality Has Actually Not Risen Since the Financial Crisis.” This is mostly, if not entirely, BS.
Making ‘Torture’ Impossible When the Washington Post (12/9/14) described on the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the treatment of prisoners at CIA “black sites,” it said it documented “harsh interrogation measures,” “painful procedures” and even “seemingly arbitrary violence.” But what it didn’t say was that this treatment was “torture”—except when saying it was “deemed torture […]
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd dismisses Keystone pipeline as a symbol, then presents an energy ‘debate’ between two industry insiders.
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news–and so is a lot of the same old misinformation. Plus we’ll look at how some TV journalists think about how war “works,” and at what exactly NPR’s Scott Simon asked comedian Bill Cosby.
Pundits say opposing Keystone is foolish because they’re going to get that oil out of the ground no matter what. But is that true?
NPR’s Scott Simon didn’t ask Bill Cosby about the sexual assault allegations made against him by numerous women. There was no “rape question.”
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news. But some of the coverage is as bad as ever—if not worse.
ABC World News hardly covered the midterm elections–but when they did, it looked more like an ad for a Republican candidate. Plus we look at an example of campaign coverage done right, and a curious climate change segment on CNN.
Even when it’s barely covering the issue of climate change, Fox News reporters know that they’re supposed to include what climate change deniers have to say.
A CNN host explains that debating climate change is a bad thing. What came next? A debate over climate change.
This week: Time slams public school teachers; what did their “bad apples” cover story get wrong? Plus we look at how ABC is framing the climate change debate among Republican politicians, and we note that election season pundits shouldn’t confuse the message they’re hearing from a minority of the population that votes with “the public.”
A more evasive kind of climate change denial isn’t really a “middle ground.”
A Washington Post columnist says that by “all logic” we should be drilling for more oil. What about the logic of climate change?
The People’s Climate March wasn’t fit for TV news, Obama is a “reluctant warrior,” and the US has a “longtime concern” for human rights in Egypt.
This week on CounterSpin: The current outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa is unprecedented in its scale. But while some media focus on experimental vaccines, health experts say we ought to be talking about fundamental inequities in basic healthcare delivery. We’ll talk about ebola with Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Also on the show: The largest environmental march ever brought hundreds of thousands into New York City streets, but the People’s Climate Watch was mostly ignored by the media. As was its companion action, Flood Wall Street, which targeted corporations behind climate instability with civil disobedience. Is the people’s voice on climate change being ignored by the corporate media just as it’s been ignored by corporate backed governments? We’ll speak with Anne Petermann, director of the Global Justice Ecology Project, and the Climate-Connections blog.
David Brooks thinks you’re just dwelling on the negative in the news–and he’s written a New York Times column, headlined “Snap Out of It,” to set you straight.
