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Despite the Washington Post’s unique ability to bring about area-wide change, the paper has mostly kept quiet about the DC region’s dangerous construction sites, thereby inviting human tragedy.
“This is really an opportunity to think bigger and think in a bolder way than we have before about what it’s going to take, not just to fill the gaps in our infrastructure that the crisis has so clearly laid bare, but also to think beyond, about what we want our economy to look like.”
Election Focus 2020: Rather than respond by focusing blame for the crisis squarely where it belongs—on Trump’s incompetent, reckless and self-centered management—and working to beat back the dangerously rising anti-Asian sentiment in this country, Biden and some of his supporting super PACs are choosing to adopt rather than challenge the anti-China premise of the attacks.
“If there were an opposition movement in countries like Canada and the United States and Europe, the demand wouldn’t just be, ‘You gotta stop this’; the demand would actually be, ‘Hey, we’ve got to prosecute the people involved with this. This is killing people. This is a crime. People should be facing legal consequences for this.’”
Speculations, rumors and outright lies have a way of starting in partisan media and bubbling up to a level where they affect our political discourse and public health.
The $150 billion designated for state, local and tribal governments as relief from the Covid-19 crisis is nowhere near what those governments will need—and not just that, but forcing them to cut budgets just as they need to be spending more is going to drive a cycle that only hurts more those already hurting.
“Frontline, essential workers are seen as heroes. And that type of energy is really going to change the conversation. Nobody really thought of grocery store workers as heroes before this.”
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, many in corporate media are still engaging in class warfare by continuing their crusade against universal healthcare.
It’s possible that the response to the coronavirus’ pronounced lethality and asymptomatic infectiousness—a drastic physical separation necessary to prevent a quickly mounting death toll—means that Covid-19 will not be a normal disease with a steep arrival curve and an equally sudden departure.
Cuba’s coronavirus performance is a welcome bit of uplifting news in an otherwise mostly dismal international panorama. Lest anyone start feeling too inspired by the idea of humanity, however, sectors of the US corporate media are dutifully standing by to burst the bubble.
Election Focus 2020: The journalistic principle is clear: If the powerful are spreading life-threatening lies, do not freely give them a huge platform to reach more people with those lies.
Does Jair Bolsonaro’s initial reaction to and handling of the coronavirus crisis really differ in any significant measure from what US and UK leaders, and their media sycophants, have been saying and doing?
Media can be most helpful right now by investigating and reporting how the virus is continuing to spread.
What would it look like to call corporate media’s bluff on their sudden, serious respect for working people who didn’t start being important because there’s a contagious disease going around?
With the official Covid-19 death toll in the United States now exceeding 14,000, the federal government has found it opportune to reignite the “Fake News” scare, censuring two familiar foes: Russia and China.
“The fact is, the kind of economy that’s being celebrated by the 1% is, frankly, the same economy that’s existed in a lot of other countries for a long time.”
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
Ardern’s Easter Bunny comments got the kind of widespread coverage that has largely been absent for an important piece of the pandemic puzzle: What can nations that are at the center of the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, like the US and much of Europe, learn from those that were in the first wave, particularly China, South Korea and Hong Kong?
Election Focus 2020: Seeing its chance to thwart Sanders’ second bid for the presidency, the Washington Post risked voters’ health by staying silent about the dangers of in-person voting, even encouraging it.
Strikes going on around the country right now are an indication of how workers are reacting to this moment, in which it’s being made painfully clear that they are deemed both essential and expendable at once.
