Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker
The US government and the media are breathing new life into this zombie idea that the Covid virus was released from a Chinese lab.
NYT Covers Up for Cuomo
While some local papers have been scathing in their coverage of the ex-governor, the New York Times seems to be largely buying what Cuomo’s selling.
Leading Papers Give Two Cheers for DOGE
Criticism of DOGE by major editorial boards has been weak, and often overshadowed by the boards’ support for the ideas behind DOGE or DOGE itself.
As Constitutional Crises Mount, US Press Sleepwalks Into Autocracy
The New York Times and Washington Post largely downplayed the Trump administration’s earth-shattering break from democratic norms.
Friedman Is Back as Midwife to Help Trump Rebirth Middle East
Thomas Friedman offers his latest version of how much better everyone could be doing if they paid attention to the self-appointed secretary of humanity.
For Elite Media, ‘Oligarch’ Is Just a Partisan Claim
We would have work enough without news media dedicating themselves to putting up a rhetorical scrim between us and the things we need to understand and resist.
Why Didn’t NYT Tell Us What Ben Smith Stood to Gain From His Media Reporting?
Ben Smith’s stake in BuzzFeed may have exceeded $7 million—a strikingly large material interest in a company whose competitors Smith regularly covered.
NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies
The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.
With Bolsonaro Facing Prosecution, NYT Renews Attacks on Brazil’s Courts
The New York Times has embraced a toxic narrative pushed by former President Jair Bolsonaro and allies like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson to discredit Brazil’s court system.
NYT, WSJ Concur Economists Lost the Election—But Can’t Agree on Why
While the headlines were nearly identical, the ideological differences between the Times and the Journal mean the papers arrived at very different conclusions for the future of economics.
White Men Get Short End of Stick—in NYT Chart, if Not in Reality
Not only are white men without college degrees not uniquely disadvantaged, they’re actually better paid than any other demographic without a college degree.
For NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
Double Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in Israel/Palestine
From the beginning, there were serious problems with the claims of mass rape by Hamas. Yet the New York Times devoted significant coverage to promoting that narrative.
WSJ Calls for Keeping Judiciary in Shadows
The Wall Street Journal comes out against journalism that exposes how powerful institutions function.
Not Reporting on Trump as a Threat to Democracy Is Also a Threat to Democracy
Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.
Breaking News Alerts Keep Public Posted on Trivia and Trump
Media outlets promise comprehensive news alerts about important breaking stories occurring everywhere—but that’s not what subscribers are getting.
NYT Uncritically Reported Israel’s Version of Golan Bombing
Coverage of the Golan Heights massacre continues a long trend of US media outlets obscuring and distorting reality in order to downplay Israel’s aggressive regional ambitions.
NYT Can’t Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq
More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.
Sanders’ Convention Speech Attacked by NYT for Advocating Popular Policies
The specific policies the New York Times scolds Bernie Sanders for promoting don’t seem to be particularly unpopular, with moderates or anyone else.
NYT Cynically Suggests Antisemitism Cost Shapiro the VP Slot
The New York Times has stood by the fiction that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who made the short list of vice presidential hopefuls, didn’t get the nod because of left-wing antisemitism.
