PBS Taps Journalist With Anti-Sanders Bias to Help Moderate Debate
Election Focus 2020: Yamiche Alcindor has repeatedly used her articles, tweets and media appearances to portray Sanders in an unflattering light.
Newshour Distracted By Distraction
When the discussion went through the motions of covering the ground of Trump’s major appointees and nominees—Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions and Mike Pompeo got brief mentions—there wasn’t the slightest indication that their backgrounds included racism, anti-immigrant fervor, extreme hostility to Muslims, antisemitism and support for torture.
PBS to Treasury Official: ‘Why Can’t You Just Bomb Them?’
It seems it’s hard to talk to an elite media host for very long before they start fantasizing about blowing things up.
Obamacare as a ‘Big Government’ Failure
Pundits’ discussions of the Affordable Care Act rollout assumes that the law represents some kind of “activist government” intervention to disrupt the normally smooth workings of the private sector. But that is neither the intent nor the effect of the law.
Journalists Back on the Chained Gang
Don’t expect much help from corporate media on understanding the “Chained CPI,” because selling the “grand bargain” requires citizens not really knowing what this part of the deal entails.
Lehrer’s Debate Ignores World’s Vast Majority
PBS‘s Jim Lehrer, as the moderator of the sole presidential debate dedicated to international policy and security issues, asked a narrow set of questions that left the vast majority of the world and its problems undiscussed. Lehrer spent much of the debate asking about the ongoing global financial crisis, quoting President Dwight Eisenhower as saying […]
