‘Radioactive’ Putin Is ‘Stalin’s Spawn’
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Crimean region of Ukraine meant that he was either “taking a page out of the Hitler playbook” or was “Stalin’s spawn.”
SoundBites May 2014
The Good Ol’ Vietnam War Days… Ronald Reagan, Peacenik… ‘We’ = You, Me & the Koch Brothers… The ‘Can I Have Some More?’ Loophole… Why Does Richard Cohen Hate Poor Kids?
Letters to the Editor May 2014
Fallujah: The Root of the Anger In the February issue of Extra!, there is a useful and comprehensive article (“Fallujah Slaughter Rewritten as Sacrifice”) about recent coverage of Fallujah and the U.S. military “heroes” of that slaughter. However, there is only a sentence about the demonstration that was a trigger for the city’s anger at […]
Kids of Color as Props in Charter School Drama
This microcosm of the national conversation over public education displayed media’s predictably narrow parameters of debate, between a corporate reformer and a moderate (but still charter-friendly) liberal.
Flunking the Revised SATs
For much of the US media the SAT changes served mostly as an opportunity to beat the drum of “Is our children learning?”
Whose Recovery Is It, Anyway?
Like much of the reporting on the rest of the economy, coverage of housing is coverage of housing markets, rather than of the circumstances that all too many people still face.
They’ll Be Watching You
Today’s digital and mobile technologies give us the tools to stay connected, but in exchange, the companies that own that infrastructure have made a business of manipulating the data we are creating.
Media Still Fawn Over Paul Ryan’s ‘Big Ideas’
Perhaps media aren’t driven to challenge Ryan’s bona fides as a “big-ideas guy” because they share those big ideas.
