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The Washington Post’s “Climate Lab” seems to be working hard to cast doubt on whether climate change is really causing weather disasters to be more expensive.
Not only are white men without college degrees not uniquely disadvantaged, they’re actually better paid than any other demographic without a college degree.
Corporate news outlets consistently elevate the views of specific economists who serve particular ideological interests, even over the views of the academic profession as a whole.
Bill Whitaker’s questions frequently started from right-wing talking points and assumptions, particularly over immigration and economic policy.
The insurance industry itself is a main actor in driving the rise of extreme weather, through its very close relationship to the fossil fuel industry.
Debates over whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s economic proposals constitute Communist price controls or merely technocratic consumer protections are obscuring a more insidious thread within corporate media. In coverage of Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal, it’s taken for granted that price inflation, especially in the grocery sector, is an organic and unavoidable result of market forces, […]
“The future of the economy is based on how well minorities do in America.”
A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.
The Washington Post implores Kamala Harris to abandon progressive policy priorities and mercilessly turn her back on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
“That’s one of the tricks that the dollar stores play on people, is that they actually are getting poor value and usually paying more in a per ounce or per pound basis.”
Will elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?
“The truth of the matter is there are vested interests for folks to want to vilify workers, to want to vilify big public investments.”
The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.
There’s an apocalyptic tone to much of the coverage of California’s decision to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour.
“Where you don’t see progress on the minimum wage, it’s because our politics or our institutions hold back the popular will.”
Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.
Corporate media’s single-minded obsession with inflation has left the public with an objectively inaccurate view of the economy.
“The whole mess that got this guy elected was really created by the Macri government and that IMF agreement.”
“The whole thing is designed to make you think anytime workers take action, they’re the ones at fault. They’re the ones causing trouble.”
Reporting has consistently ignored what is likely a primary source of Germany’s economic illness: the sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines.
