Josh Bivens on Coronavirus Economics, Mandy Smithberger on Military Economics
Economic impacts of epidemics of life-saving and of war-mongering, this week on CounterSpin.
Pundits Look to Bloomberg as Their Anti-Sanders Savior
Election Focus 2020: At the nation’s elite newspapers, it’s not hard to find pundits jumping on the Michael Bloomberg train as Joe Biden’s star plummets.
And Now, Our Expert on Africa… US Billionaire Michael Bloomberg
African leaders are in DC for a big summit, so CBS Face the Nation turns to noted Africa expert…Michael Bloomberg?
USA Today Covers NYC Elections—Unfortunately
USA Today tries to explain what the Democratic primary elections in New York City, using some of corporate media’s favorite electoral tropes: mandating a move to the right, misleading on stop-and-frisk, and finding “ambivalence” when voters line up on the wrong side.
Meet the Press Turns to Billionaire Mayor as ‘Independent Voice’
On the one hand, NBC‘s Meet the Press gives us Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (2/5/12): DAVID GREGORY: Governor Daniels, one of the things you hear from the campaign trail, Mitt Romney said it just the other day, is that the recovery should have been so much stronger. You know, it’s very difficult to prove […]
Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
One more thing about free speech hero Michael Bloomberg’s shutdown of Occupy Wall Street. During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown—as he points out, “By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the […]
Michael Bloomberg, Free Speech Hero?
The New York Times, writing about Bloomberg’s crackdown on Occupy Wall Street, said this: For the mayor, a champion of the First Amendment…. I am not sure what is required to deserve the title of “champion,” but was it a different Michael Bloomberg who was mayor during the 2004 Republican convention, which saw mass arrests, […]
Obama Plan = Class Warfare? NBC Asks a Billionaire
At the top of Meet the Press yesterday (9/25/11), NBC anchor David Gregory announced one of the topics to come: Is the president’s plan basic fairness or class warfare? As with too many other media debates, an absurd proposition—that returning tax rates for certain wealthy people to levels seen in the 1980s and 1990s is […]
O’Reilly Speaks Out for Bias and Backlash
You just never know what will set Bill O’Reilly off. Last night, it was a perfectly reasonable remark by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, following the arrest of a Pakistani suspect in the Times Square car bomb plot, cautioned against turning Pakistanis or followers of Islam into scapegoats: I want to make clear […]
One Paper — Three Views on Term Limits
The author of an upcoming “people’s history of the Bolivarian Revolution entitled We Created Him,” George Ciccariello-Maher tells (CounterPunch, 2/15/09) an eerily “familiar” tale of one unnamed political leader who, after being “in power for nearly eight years,” no longer feels the need to comfort his opponents, and his discourse radicalizes as his view of […]
NYT Questions NYT on Bloomberg’s Democraticness
The latest instance of the classic politician-journalist-politician feedback loop is completed when the New York Times‘ David Carr quotes Michael Bloomberg (10/5/08) citing a Times editorial that backed their rich mayor friend’s bid to legalize a third term for himself: “‘But as newspaper editorialists and others have pointed out,’ he said, ‘the current law denies […]
The New York Times’ Real Feelings on Term Limits
The funny thing about the New York Times editorial yesterday about getting rid of term limits (10/1/08) is that the Times editorial board members no doubt tell themselves that they make up their own minds on issues based on the merits, not on whom their boss has had dinner with. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal […]
