Media Baffled by Wheelchair ‘Miracles’ Because They Don’t Understand Disability
The Wall Street Journal noted that many people who use wheelchairs to board planes are “miraculously” able to walk once exiting the plane.
Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker
The US government and the media are breathing new life into this zombie idea that the Covid virus was released from a Chinese lab.
Pundits Try to Make ‘Progressive’ Case for Kennedy
Many commentators have worked hard to downplay the danger Robert Kennedy Jr. would pose to the US public as health and human services secretary.
US Media Coverage of Anti-Vax Disinformation Quietly Stops at the Pentagon
The threat of anti-vax disinformation is apparently not a high priority for the establishment press if the US military is implicated.
‘We Have to Do the Hard Work of Looking at Context’
Transcript of The Best of CounterSpin 2023
The best of CounterSpin for 2023 is only a sample of the valuable conversations it’s been our pleasure to host this year.
Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism
Paxlovid’s “transition” to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.
WaPo Feeds Denial With False Claims About Overcounting Covid Deaths
Medical commentator Leana Wen wants us to believe that society has overcounted Covid deaths and hospitalizations.
New Yorker Takes Aim at People Who Still Think Covid Is a Problem
Corporate media’s overarching message is that it’s “time to move on,” and radicals holding on to precautions are impeding economic recovery.
‘With This Delay of Vacating Title 42, the Death Toll Will Only Rise’
“It’s very clear…that they’re viewing Title 42 as a border management tool, rather than a public health tool.”
Can False Balance Kill You? It Sure Can
You know what would actually benefit politics in the US? A media system that was willing to point out who was causing demonstrable problems.
‘Who Do We Want to Own Our Neighborhoods?’
“Should we be subsidizing undermining home ownership in this country, especially at this time, or should we be supporting it?”
NYT Scolds China for Not ‘Learning to Live’—or Die—With Covid
The New York Times writes yet another in a series of articles about how China has had the enormous misfortune of avoiding mass death.
‘A Handful of Billionaire Companies Have Monopoly Control Over Life-Saving Medicines’
“The issue at stake isn’t taking away someone’s creation or invention. It’s taking away the ability to control how much of it’s being made.”
‘The Major Insurers Saw 2020 as a Giant Opportunity for Profiteering’
“Media failed to cover the figures that were there in plain sight, showing a massive increase in insurance companies overhead and profit.”
Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid
There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines.
Media Fail to Raise Alarm Over Deadly Lack of Booster Shots in Elderly
There’s been hardly any mention in corporate media of the lagging booster rate among older USians, and even less analysis.
Vaccine Equity Coverage Underplays Barrier of Patents
Despite US media’s occasionally stated concern with vaccine equity, the role of drug companies in perpetuating this gap is rarely mentioned.
ACTION ALERT: NYT’s China Covid Coverage Needs to Acknowledge Reality
New York Times coverage of Covid in China, with its casual Nazi analogies, reaches a level of partisan hyperbole on a par with Fox News.
It’s Not ‘Encouraging’ That Mostly People With Disabilities Die Despite Covid Shots
A statement that, within any subgroup, fatalities affecting primarily those with preexisting health issues are “good news” is disturbing.
The Dangerous Misuse of ‘Natural Immunity’ Against Covid Vaccination
Vaccination seeks herd immunity without the massive human costs that come with letting the virus run its course.
