‘Crime Is Defined and Constructed by Police and Other Elite Interests’
“Over the course of the last hundred years, police have systematically organized to prevent progressive social change.”
NYT Runs Interference for Billionaires Who Don’t Want Their Wealth Taxed
The New York Times was quick to cast doubt on a White House analysis that showed how little the richest families pay in taxes.
‘The Demonization Was Meant to Pacify Readers to Accept the Brutality’
“Africa, Africans and descendants of Africans, including in this country, were really made into the Other.”
NYT: China Needs to Rethink Its Not-Letting-People-Die-From-Covid Policy
Do you feel like you are free of “pandemic fatigue” because you live in a country that has a “higher tolerance of Covid”?
The New York Times: Ally to Colonialism in Africa
Apologists for colonialism could always expect New York Times coverage that was inimical to Africa’s aspirations for self-determination.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil
The New York Times has not covered Chevron’s bizarre conflict with human rights attorney Steven Donziger since 2014.
Extra! Soundbites July 2021
Assaults on Choice Aren’t News (Here) Republican state lawmakers introduced more than 500 bills that would restrict abortion rights by mid-May—including some that would charge women who terminated their pregnancies with murder. But from the beginning of the year until May 16, NBC News didn’t once mention these attempts to roll back reproductive freedom. (They […]
Pushing Consumers to Amazon Is Baked In to NYT’s Business Model
Anodyne Wirecutter articles that instruct New York Times readers how best to shop at Amazon serve to blunt any impact from critical coverage.
NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership
Coverage of Covid-19 in Africa, despite the continent’s relatively low infection rates, is disproportionately grim and macabre.
Why Do White Republicans Oppose Black Lives Matter?
The role of right-wing media purveyors of outright bigotry and falsehood in turning white Republicans strongly against the Black Lives Matter movement should not be overlooked.
NYT Scolds Pride Organizers for Not Tolerating NYPD Abuse
What’s a “worrisome trend” to the NYT editors wasn’t police violence towards queer people, but LGBTQ activists challenging the ability of police forces to whitewash that violence by having gay contingents in Pride parades.
In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights
Instead of centering trans voices in coverage of bills that target them, journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post have tended to cover the story as primarily one of political debate,
New York State Hands Billions Back to Wealthy Investors—and NYT Doesn’t See a Story
The New York Times has failed to write about the fact that New York state has billions of dollars that could pay for roads, schools and services, but instead is handed back to wealthy financiers.
Extra! April 2021 Soundbites
Trump Briefings? News. Biden Briefings? Not News. Nowadays, corporate media would have you believe they are appalled by Donald Trump: They had to cover the liar and cheat because he was president, but they held their nose the whole time, and now they can’t wait to get back to serious reporting on policy. The only […]
Need a Quote From an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do Like the New York Times and Make It Up
The New York Times produces a new installment in its ongoing project of demonizing China.
Has NYT Heard of China’s or Russia’s Covid Vaccines?
A lengthy New York Times podcast on Bill Gates and his efforts to make vaccines available to the developing world never once mentioned the vaccines developed by China or Russia.
NYT Fails to Examine Its Participation in Brazil’s ‘Biggest Judicial Scandal’
In article after article, the New York Times failed to share important information on the Lava Jato investigation. This helped normalize the 2016 coup and the removal of Lula from the 2018 presidential elections, which in turn opened the door for a neofascist/military takeover of Brazil.
Extra! Soundbites March 2021
The real test is not whether corporate media were able to condemn a president’s seditious acts, but whether they go back to business as usual.
Who Is Aleksei Navalny? NYT Once Knew, but Has Since Forgotten
A New York Times headline asks a good question that the accompanying story completely fails to answer.
NYT’s China Syndrome
Too good or not good enough, China’s coronavirus response is an obsession of the New York Times.
