ABC and Darren Wilson’s ‘Serious Injury’
Back in August ABC reported on Darren Wilson’s ‘serious facial injury.’ What will they say now?
Michael Brown, According to the New York Times
The New York Times makes some curious choices in its coverage of the victim in the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting.
Give Killer Cops a Break, Says NYT
The message from the NY Times: Police officers who shoot unarmed civilians need to be be given the benefit of the doubt.
Fox, Bill O’Reilly and “Young Black Men”
Fox hosts rush to the defense of a local reporter who blamed a pervasive “anti-cop mentality” on “young black men growing up without fathers.”
Bill O’Reilly’s Pot Lie
Bill O’Reilly edited the New York Times editorial calling for marijuana legalization in order to make it easier for him to debunk.
Alex Kane on US Weapons in Gaza; Jamie Kalven on Police Abuse Records
The US press doesn’t talk much about where Israel gets its weapons–or other aspects of the US role in the Gaza conflict. And a recent legal victory in Chicago could help expose police brutality in poor communities of color.
Criminal Justice Media’s ‘Twisted’ Coverage
Daryl Khan of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange strayed from most media coverage around New York’s “biggest gang raid ever” by writing about the people living in the housing projects at the heart of the early-morning raid.
‘El Chapo’ and El Banco
While the only questions regarding Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s prosecution appear to be where and when, things were different when it came to prosecuting the institution that supported what Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton called “the lifeblood” of the Sinoloa Cartel’s operations.
Domestic Terror Story Gets Media Cold Shoulder—Guess Why
It’s hard not to think back on previous undercovered terrorism stories and conclude that if suspects in this story were Muslims, and their alleged targets Christians or Jews, it would have dominated our media world for the past several months.
FAIR TV: Problems With Populism, Amazon Drone PR, TV ‘Knockout Game’ Hype
The Washington Post warns Democrats not to veer too far to the left, CBS helps Amazon.com with some drone PR, and we take a look at the media hype about the so-called “knockout game.”
‘Knockout Game’ Takes Center Stage
The ease at which violent criminal tendencies can be attached to youth–particularly black youth–is a dangerous habit of media.
NY Post’s Stop-and-Frisk Scare
The New York Post is suggesting New York City is seeing the beginning of a scary crime wave. Turns out (surprise!) the Post is mostly full of it.
Little Coverage of the Wrong Sort of Terror
US journalists have a hard time knowing what to do with terrorism stories when the culprits are not Muslim, even though, in their own country, the vast majority of terrorism is carried out by non-Muslims.
Whistleblowers and Mass Shooters: Time Connects the Dots
Whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, and mass shooters Nidal Hassan and Aaron Alexis: Time wonders how these four dangerous individuals managed to slip through the system?
USA Today Covers NYC Elections—Unfortunately
USA Today tries to explain what the Democratic primary elections in New York City, using some of corporate media’s favorite electoral tropes: mandating a move to the right, misleading on stop-and-frisk, and finding “ambivalence” when voters line up on the wrong side.
Jeffrey Toobin, Expert on Bizarre Analogies
is Jeffrey Toobin right that the Nuremberg principles are only meant to apply to Nazi-like regimes, or are they applicable to the United States as well?
FAIR TV: Snowden the ‘Spy,’ Stop-and-Frisk Factcheck, Student Loan Rates
On FAIR TV this week: CBS tries to call Edward Snowden a “spy,” and Bill Kristol makes his ABC comeback with a bogus defense of New York’s stop-and-frisk police searches. Plus: Student loan rates are slashed, say the TV reports. But are they actually…going up? Watch it all this on this week’s episode:
Bait-and-Switch on Stop-and-Frisk
There’s a powerful urge to believe, it seems, that abusing the Fourth Amendment rights of young men of color somehow makes the rest of us safer.
Frisking Bill Kristol
Neocon pundit Bill Kristol was wrong every which way about the Iraq War. So why’s he on ABC talking about stop and frisk?
After a Massacre, a ‘Glimmer of Hope’?
In a courtroom base near Tacoma, Washington, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will plead guilty today to killing 16 civilians–most of them women and children–in an Afghan village on March 11, 2012. A little more than a year later, U.S. media seem to have not much interest left in the Bales case.
