Sanders’ Plan to Fight Global Climate Disaster Too Ambitious, Says NYT
Election Focus 2020: It’s as if the New York Times can’t resist slipping in gratuitous digs at Bernie Sanders any chance it gets, even as the world burns.
NYT Recycles Polling to Tell Dems Once More: Move to the Right
Election Focus 2020: Support for progressive candidates in battleground states should give any journalist pause before drawing the conclusion that those voters are “counseling” pursuit of the so-called middle ground.
Throwing the Base Under the Bus—and Other Deep Thoughts From NYT
Election Focus 2020: Thomas Edsall looks at evidence that Trump won because of his “aversion to political correctness,” and concludes that jumping on that train is how Democrats will win back the “swing electorate.”
‘International Actors in Haiti Have Been Guarantors of the Status Quo’
“What people are looking for is not just a change in leadership, not just to change from one politician to another, but real reforms that are going to fundamentally change the system of governance, and the economic system that has gone along with it.”
Nazi-Normalizing Barf Journalism: A Brief History
Again and again during Trump’s presidency, corporate media have fallen over themselves to find acceptable ways to describe utterly unacceptable behavior, policies and decisions—none more so than the New York Times.
Extra! Soundbites November 2019
CNN Bashes Medicare for All Because It’s ‘Popular’ CNN’s Erin Burnett (7/15/19) pressed Joe Biden spokesperson Symone Sanders to attack Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan for raising taxes (not coincidentally, the line of attack that had been identified as most effective in polling by the corporate advocacy group Third Way—FAIR.org, 10/2/19): As a general idea, […]
Fretting About Progressives’ ‘Electability,’ Establishment Dems Are Really Worried About Their Power in the Party
Election Focus 2020: What establishment Democrats are really worried about is their own power in the party, which is threatened by a surging left wing. Don’t look to their establishment media counterparts to report on that transparently.
WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom
It is hard to think of a more palpable example of corporate journalists seeing themselves aligned with the interests of the investor class, against literally everyone else on the planet, than the celebration of the “shale revolution” and US “energy independence,” despite the ongoing climate catastrophe.
NYT Perp Walks a Bronx Neighborhood
After two people, one a police officer, were killed by the NYPD in the Bronx, the New York Times took its cue from law enforcement officials in shaping the early narrative around “gang violence”—impugning an entire neighborhood in the process.
‘I Don’t Think We Can Possibly Fight Them if We Don’t Understand the History’
“Media have been slow to recognize the degree to which the Tea Party represents perhaps the furthest right of the Republican Party.”
NYT Remembers David Koch More as ‘Philanthropist’ Than Polluter
The New York Times chose to focus more on David Koch’s love for the ballet than on his pollution and profiteering.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Presents Murder of a Palestinian Boy as ‘National Trauma’—for Jewish Israelis
The New York Times might have pointed out that the accusation that Palestinians murdering Jewish Israelis is a “more common scourge” is an absolute inversion of reality.
Mark Trahant on Indigenous and the Election; Tea Party Revisionism
Election Focus 2020: The historic Native American Presidential Forum was ultimately less about the candidates than about the 5 million Natives across the country, and the possibility of their seeing government as representing rather than oppressing them.
NYT Steers Dems Away From the Obvious Formula for Defeating Trump
Election Focus 2020: The false impression that Trump was a moderate Republican on economic issues left voters free to be swayed by his appeal to a white racial identity.
Jonathan Weisman’s Judgment Has Been Lapsing for a Long While Now
At FAIR, we’ve been following Jonathan Weisman’s career for quite some time, and “lapses of judgment” seem to be par for the course for him.
The NYT’s Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran
The New York Times’ “anti-war” arguments are woefully lacking—vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and hiding US aggression towards Iran.
What Do Black Voters Want? NYT’s Edsall Says It’s What ‘Conservative’ Democrats Want
Election Focus 2020: Thomas Edsall is playing a shell game—lumping self-identified black and white “moderates” and “conservatives” together, even though they have very different policy preferences, and then using the amalgamated opinion to generalize about what African Americans really want.
Media Can’t Quit ‘Trump Supporters Support Trump’ Stories
Election Focus 2020: It’s a common theme of Trump coverage that now is extending to election coverage: When people protest something Trump does or says, corporate media feel the need to cover as well the people who aren’t reacting as a sort of faux-balance, giving us tautological Trump-supporters-support-Trump stories.
‘Hypersonic Missiles’ Aren’t Starting an Arms Race—Washington Is
The New York Times ascribes agency and responsibility to mysterious forces and inanimate missiles manipulating the US both in its headline—it’s the missiles that are “starting a new global arms race,” not the government—and in its claim that “the rush” to possess hypersonic missiles has “pushed the United States into an arms race with Russia and China.”
For NYT, Inconvenient Facts Equal ‘Russian-Style Disinformation’
Election Focus 2020: Just as corporate media sought to distract their audience from the significant failures of their preferred Democratic candidate in 2016 with a collusion narrative that was baloney from the beginning, the New York Times wants you to be scared of anything and everything except Biden’s actual policy record.
