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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.
A victory lap for the corporate press and the Democratic establishment against the party’s left flank.
Contact the debate moderators today and tell them to make the climate crisis a key focus of the debates.
Outlets like USA Today overstate Trump’s support and create the impression of a balance that doesn’t exist.
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.
“It’s more important than ever not just to be registered, but to really, really make sure your registration information is correct.”
Besides framing it as “Many Democrats were outraged,” elite media normalized Trump’s behavior with passivity.
The source for the “conspiracy theory” that Trump was blocking funding to the post office to prevent mail-in voting was…Donald Trump.
A victory lap for the corporate press and the Democratic establishment against the party’s left flank.
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is being reported as a Trumpian bad idea. Is that enough?
This is a time for media to focus less on fluctuations in polling data and more on the reasons why citizens should cast their votes.
Emerging as a corporate media frame is a sloppy, mystifying confusion that refuses to distinguish the racist and sexist slurs against Harris from an authentic discussion of the trajectory of her political positions.
As the Democratic National Convention kicks off, election season is finally heating up again—which means it’s time for corporate media to get back to flogging their “move to the center” horse when covering Democrats.
Please contact Newsweek’s editors and demand that they retract the op-ed insinuating that Kamala Harris (like millions of other Americans) is not a US citizen.
Armed supporters of a far-right politician holding Confederate flags and attacking people in broad daylight in front of police, in a place like East Texas with a history of white supremacist violence, is an important event with national implications about the growing boldness and militancy of the far right.
“Bureaucratic violence, that’s the array of policies that have been pooled together to figure out, ‘How do we get around the 15th Amendment, while targeting those that the 15th Amendment was designed to protect?’”
As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s search for a running mate drags on, press coverage hasn’t failed to disappoint.
Election Focus 2020: The obvious questions the endorsement raises are how it might influence Biden’s military policy, and perhaps whether such an endorsement would be demotivating for antiwar voters in Biden’s voter base.
To the extent the Bolivian coup story’s being told, it’s being told too late. But CounterSpin listeners learned in real time.
Election Focus 2020: The obvious questions the endorsement raises are how it might influence Biden’s military policy, and perhaps whether such an endorsement would be demotivating for antiwar voters in Biden’s voter base.
