Common Dreams: WaPo Tallies Police Killings–but Holds Back Some of the Numbers That Count
Common Dreams (12/29/15) reposted Jim Naureckas’ piece (12/29/15) on the Washington Post’s fatal police shooting tally.
Common Dreams Quotes Jim Naureckas: ‘It’s All About Who We Should Bomb’
“Framing the problem of political violence as a struggle of ‘us’ against ‘ them,’ of creating a demonized other by stoking fear, is a tried and true strategy for building an audience.”
Common Dreams: Credulous Reporting of Deceptive Propaganda Made Planned Parenthood Attack Inevitable
Jim Naureckas’ piece (12/12/15) on establishment media uncritically promoting right-wing deception was picked up by Common Dreams (12/14/15): Rather than criticizing O’Keefe and Breitbart for perpetrating a hoax, leading corporate media outlets suggested apologetically that they should have done more to spotlight the misleading story. New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt (9/27/09) warned that […]
Common Dreams: What Gets Asked at Debates–and Who Gets Asked It?
Gunar Olsen’s study (12/15/15) of what gets asked and what’s left out of the primary debates was picked up by Common Dreams (12/15/15): Twenty-eight of the non-policy questions (5 percent of all questions) might fairly be categorized as silly, e.g., “What would you want your Secret Service codename to be?” or “What are the three […]
‘War-Stoking Mindset Is Replicating’ in Big Media
Of deteriorating governmental control in Afghanistan, Norman Solomon (Common Dreams, 9/8/09) says that “a stale witticism calls Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai ‘the mayor of Kabul.’ Now, not even.” He points to the “corrupt, inept and–with massive election fraud–now illegitimate” administration as a “notable work product” of “those who believe in making war”: After 30 years, […]
Big Media ‘Lenses…Ground With Ideology, Nationalism’
Noticing that “the New York Times used three square inches of newsprint on Tuesday to dispatch two U.S. Army soldiers under the headline ‘Names of the Dead,’” Norman Solomon (Common Dreams, 7/1/09) points out how apparently “there wasn’t enough room for any numbers, names or ages of Afghans who have died as a part of […]
