Media Focus on Epstein’s Powerful Friends Erases Their Victims
Most elite media coverage has focused not on Epstein’s victims, but on the lifestyles of Jeffrey Epstein and his rich and famous friends.
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Most elite media coverage has focused not on Epstein’s victims, but on the lifestyles of Jeffrey Epstein and his rich and famous friends.


Only a few US corporate media outlets have referenced the latest Epstein/Israel revelations–and these framed them as at best conspiracy-adjacent.


Brooks has served as an apologist for the ruling class, whose crimes and errors of judgement he is always ready to trivialize and forgive.


More than half of US visits to major online news sites from Dec. 2024 through Nov. 2025 went to outlets controlled by just seven families or corporate entities.


In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.


Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.


“You’ve got people who have been conditioned to live in a world of conspiracy theories.”


To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.


Amy Robach’s comments about being pressured into killing a Jeffrey Epstein story by powerful people ABC relied upon are a perfect example of the perils of access journalism.

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