For US Corporate Media, Italy’s Gaza Protests Had Two Strikes Against Them
After a massive Italian mobilization against genocide in Gaza, there was only a smattering of online coverage among US corporate media outlets.
Italy’s Antisemitism Scandal Should Have Raised Alarms in US
Lackluster coverage at best focused on Giorgia Meloni’s self-interested damage control rather than the dark ideology at the center of her movement.
NYT’s ‘Economic Logic’ Ignores Italy’s Economic Reality
The New York Times says it would defy “economic logic” for Italy to leave the euro–under which Italy has yet to recover from the crisis of 2008.
CNN’s Recipe for Italy: Austerity—No Matter What
CNN.com had an odd piece of analysis of the Italian election results, arguing that austerity “is necessary by any calculation to actually start moving Italy out of the recession.” That’s not the calculation of Paul Krugman, who for what its worth is a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
U.S. Media Overlook Expose on Chinese Embassy Bombing
A detailed investigative article in the October 17 London Observer reported that NATO deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May. So far, the reaction in the mainstream U.S. media has been a deafening silence.
