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“If we don’t ramp up manufacturing quickly, with some new investments and some high-level political leadership now, a million more people will die than would otherwise be the case, and trillions of dollars will be lost.”
When, as the death toll in other countries grew alarmingly, Nicaragua “flattened the curve” of virus cases more quickly than its neighbors, its apparent success was ignored.
If we don’t learn from this pandemic that none of us can be healthy unless all of us are healthy, how many chances will we get?
Coverage failed to mention is that Covid-19 cases and deaths were rising significantly in Texas and Mississippi in the days leading up to their governors’ announcements of an end to public health measures.
A lengthy New York Times podcast on Bill Gates and his efforts to make vaccines available to the developing world never once mentioned the vaccines developed by China or Russia.
For journalists who have covered Andrew Cuomo’s tumultuous governorship, the recent revelations are a return from the adoring media frenzy of a year ago to the Cuomo they remember: a corrupt bully who perhaps embodied the Trumpian spirit as much as anyone else in power today.
Chicago papers are framing a thorny public health problem requiring participation and transparency as a dispute between bad-actor unions and educators, parents and children.
To hear corporate media tell it, the most important promise—and the only one they will hold him accountable for—is one Biden never even made: to compromise with the GOP for the sake of compromising.
Too good or not good enough, China’s coronavirus response is an obsession of the New York Times.
Much of the scientific journalism on US Covid vaccines has been inaccurate, misleading, fearmongering and irresponsible.
“We have chosen the most profitable form of ending the pandemic, which is a vaccine…. This is the only solution, given how out of control we’ve let this become, as a result of not being good at public health.”
Corporate media have elevated some experts without disclosing their troubling views on disability, aging and the value of human life.
When Western media reports omit necessary context, they imply that the appropriate benchmark to compare China’s response to is perfection, which it inevitably falls short of, allowing the creation of a narrative in which China’s pandemic response was especially (and suspiciously) incompetent and sluggish.
Historians are shaking their heads as media talk about January 6 as “unprecedented”; while shocking and dispiriting, it has layers and layers of precedent that need to be learned and engaged, if we are ever to actually have the racial reckoning that corporate media are forever insisting we’ve already had.
The Best of CounterSpin is a reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope offer some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.
The $2,000 check is indeed far from a perfect plan to help ordinary Americans, yet if it is the only plan currently on the table, many in corporate media are inclined to leave it there.
A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.
“American workers are sick and dying and broke from this pandemic. So why on Earth would you suspend the very laws that are supposed to protect us?”
Corporate media tossed the long history of Mitch McConnell’s intransigence completely down the memory hole when negotiations began again in earnest in recent weeks.
Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers’ health and safety a “tradeoff” for Covid relief.
