NYT Laments ‘Forever Wars’ Its Editorials Helped Create
Corporate media have a long history of lamenting wars they themselves helped sell the American public, but it’s rare so many wars and so much hypocrisy are distilled into one editorial.
No, US Didn’t ‘Stand By’ Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated
“Standing by” is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times.
To Make Trump’s Economy Look Good, It Helps to Not Look Very Hard
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens apparently knows literally nothing about the economy, and is so ignorant he doesn’t even know how little he knows.
Coverage Skirts Hurricane’s Outsized Impact on Poor
Poorer residents tend to be concentrated in areas more prone to flooding
Trying to Sell TPP by Repackaging It as an Anti-China Pact
Since economics won’t sell the TPP, the alternative is to make it a geopolitical pact, with the main target being China. The main problem with seeing the TPP as a pact designed as a weapon against China, though, is that it doesn’t seem to have been designed that way.
NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov’t and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn’t Huge Enough
The New York Times gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.”
Soundbites September 2017
Making the Case for an ‘Affluent Left’ by Ignoring Evidence…
Democrats Are Back! And by ‘Back,’ We Mean ‘Screwed’…
Four Years Later, a Baseless Iran Smear Is (Sort of) Retracted…
USA Today’s Korea Sources Have Something to Sell You…
You Don’t Have to Work for Bezos to Boost Amazon
NYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
Far more egregious than a simple conflict of interest problem is that the New York Times decided to give an opinion column to someone linked to murder, money-laundering and a whole host of other legally and ethically repugnant behavior.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Claims US Opposed Honduran Coup It Actually Supported
Please contact the New York Times and ask it to correct the false claim that the United States tried to restore the democratically elected president of Honduras.
Do Corporate Media Need to Lie to Promote Trade Deals?
People can have reasonable differences of opinion on trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but why is it that the proponents have to insist, with zero evidence, that not doing the deal was an economic disaster?
Paul Ryan Doesn’t Love Free-Market Healthcare; He Loves Giving Money to Rich People
The New York Times is again spreading the absurd myth that House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans want a free market in healthcare.
At NYT, Fantasy of Bill Clinton’s Centrism Saving the Dems Never Gets Old
The New York Times has a fairy tale it wants to tell you—about the magical land of Centrism and how it needs to be saved from the sinister Lefties….
After 1,379 Days, NYT Corrects Bogus Claim Iran ‘Sponsored’ 9/11
The New York Times maintained for more than three years that the government of Iran “sponsored” the September 11, 2001, attacks. The belated correction, issued late Wednesday night on two widely spaced articles on the topic, unceremoniously noted that Iran did not, in fact, help commit the 9/11 attacks.
Soundbites July/August 2017
President Trump’s Plans for Planet Not of Interest to Major Media…Covering Trump’s Nominees Through GOP Eyes…To Simplify Factchecking, NYT Inserts Its Own Errors…USA Today Sees Bright Side of Massive Loss of Health Insurance
As Democratic Voters Shift Left, ‘Liberal Media’ Keep Shifting Right
In the past few years, the Democratic Party’s rank and file has shifted left on major issues. In contrast, nominally liberal media—or major media whose editorial line is reliably pro-Democratic—have drifted rightward.
Tom Friedman Mourns a Trade Deal He Doesn’t Understand
Thomas Friedman, who is legendary for his boldly stated wrong assertions, is making absurd claims about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the great loss the US suffers from its going down.
When You Reject Class-Based Politics, ‘Thoughtful’ Appeals to Racism Are All You’ve Got Left
The New York Times’ Thomas Edsall declares “the end of left and right as we knew them.” But how well did he know them?
NYT’s New ‘Reader Center’ Already Proving a Step Backward in Accountability
Yesterday, the Times published the first installment of the paper’s new “Reader Center,” the ostensible replacement to the public editor, and, not surprisingly, it thoroughly underwhelmed.
Corporate Media Hope Labour’s Corbyn Loses Election—and Badly
Since Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest in a landslide victory in 2015, he has faced an incessant slew of attacks from the rightist Blairite wing of his own party—and from the corporate media that so frequently echo it.
NYT Values Reputation for ‘Balance’ More Than Health of Sick Kids
What is misleading, and dangerously so, is the New York Times’ effort to minimize the dangers ACA repeal poses to sick children in order to maintain its self-image as evenhandedly critical of both major parties.
