‘He Is the King of Dirty Deals’
“He’s rushing through controversial hirings, filling commissions, changing the structure of the federal government to make it easier to move political appointees to become long-term career appointees.”
Lisa Gilbert on Lame Duck Trump, Dean Baker on Trickle-Down Economics
While we await the day that Trump’s face and voice are no longer at the top of every newscast, it ain’t over til it’s over. And harms he does as a lame duck are harms nonetheless.
Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Equity Gag Order
Trump’s obviously suppressive executive order has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm.
‘The Chairmanship of Ajit Pai Has Been a Disaster’
“He’s failed in his job to make sure that the people come first, and not these companies.”
Liliana Segura on Trump’s Execution Spree, Gaurav Laroia on Ajit Pai’s FCC
As with many aspects of his presidency, the execution spree is both Trump being especially gruesome, and his simply making use of a gruesome machinery he certainly didn’t create.
‘Trump Has Let the Military Establishment Do Everything It Wants to Do’
“Historically, siege was considered an act of war; to undertake a siege against a foreign population was considered an act of war. And these sanctions are basically a form of siege against a civilian population, to extort some sort of political goal from their leadership.”
NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
NPR gave readers a variety of viewpoints, giving the readers the choice of which set of facts they want to accept as true.
Corporate Media Begin to Acknowledge GOP Coup Attempt
in the past few days, it seems corporate media have decided to report on Trump’s attempts to subvert the election and overturn its results as a fact, not as a matter of opinion.
Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure, Murtaza Hussain on Trump’s War on Yemen
The coronavirus crisis highlights the urgent need to reimagine our vaccine infrastructure.
Drawing All the Wrong Lessons From Media’s Election 2020 Failures
These stories, with their palpable fear of coming across as disrespectful or condescending, only make things worse, by creating an uncritical echo chamber for racist and xenophobic perspectives.
Absolving Trump Means Erasing the Harm Done to Millions
The call to coddle Trump—like the same outlets’ insistence that it would be mean to send bankers whose fraud derailed the economy to jail—is evidence of the total divorce between real people’s lives and experiences, and the puppets and caricatures in media’s narrative.
Media Still Refuse to Report the Real News: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election
In the face of this assault on democracy, corporate media appear content to offer factual corrections of the sort that Trump and his base will simply ignore, as they have done for the past four years regarding countless other lies he has told.
Media Fail to Prepare Public for Potential Trump Coup
Corporate media approached election night with circuitous, often tepid reporting, scattered with euphemisms that obscured GOP voter suppression efforts and the clear possibility that Trump will try to steal the election.
‘We Have the World’s Largest System to Imprison and Exile Immigrants’
“I think we also have to be wary of not taking advantage of this moment, because it’s unveiling what the system truly is meant to do.”
Media Need to Be Clear About Clear Efforts to Depose Democracy
Newsrooms have an obligation to report that the most powerful person in the country is trying to subvert the election and retain power illegitimately, and a failure to blow the whistle on a clear threat to democracy is journalistic malpractice.
Special Program on Trump & Immigration
In our final pre-election show, we use the lens of one issue, immigration, to look back at four years of Trump policy and of coverage.
How Not to Interview a Toddler
Whatever happens on and after November 3, one thing seems pretty clear: We can count on 60 Minutes to cover it in a way that props up the status quo.
Democracy Dies in the Light
As the 2020 election nears, Trump’s tolerance for democratic checks on his power has eroded dramatically, and he has openly pressured his cabinet members to use the levers of state power to target his opponents and aid his re-election.
‘There Is a Different Set of Rules for Someone Like Donald Trump’
“You can’t say that Donald Trump is just doing whatever the law allows; Donald Trump was part of why this is in the law.”
First Debate Calls for More Than Cutting Off Mics
When you have a candidate—who also happens to be the sitting president—who will not respect the rules of debate, who deliberately casts doubt on the legitimacy of the election, and who issues directives to white supremacist groups from a national stage, the only reasonable thing for journalists to do is to not just call for an end to the debates, but to call for an end to the Trump presidency.
