Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests
The corporate press corps seems intent on forcing a vital, important situation into old, tired and harmful frames.
Tyre Nichols Was One of Too Many
News outlets treat cases like Tyre Nichols’ as isolated incidents, lavishing short-term attention that makes the chronic seem exceptional.
You Don’t Stop Police Killings by Calling them ‘Fatal Encounters’
Describing repeated police murder of Black people as “fatal encounters,” the New York Times works to soften a blow that shouldn’t be softened.
John Miller ‘Chose to Lie About Something That’s Well-Documented’
“News networks should be helping us sort fact from fiction, not further destroying the line.”
Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage
For corporate media, being a paid flack for the police in no way disqualifies you to offer analysis of law enforcement.
ACTION ALERT: Crime Claims of CNN’s New Police Expert Don’t Hold Up to Facts
Please ask CNN to explain why a person who misrepresents the evidence on the causes of crime trends should be offered as an expert.
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing
The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands.
Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup
There’s a way to tell the story of heat waves that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings.
NYT Hypes NYC Police Spending, Buries School Cuts
The New York Times article framed the NYC budget as mainly an issue of law enforcement priorities rather than a question of austerity.
‘The Core of Copaganda Is the Symbiotic Relationship Between Press and Police’
“We have to understand that journalism is something that anybody should be able to do. We should all be able to document our stories.”
Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing
“If it bleeds, it leads” journalism lets news outlets look as though they’re tracking an important event in real time.
NYT Twists Stats to Insist We Need More Policing
The analysis presented the need for a police-based solution as indisputable —a position that is, in fact, highly disputed.
‘It’s the Demeaning Treatment, but Also the Failure to Take Action’
“It is not too much to ask that we could have intersectional justice in the space where right now we have intersectional oppression.”
‘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.”
Alec Karakatsanis on ‘Crime Surge’ Copaganda, Jane Manning on Gender-Based Crime
Media announce a rise in the murder rate with coverage steeped in false presumptions about what that means and how to respond.
‘Chilling the Press Has Consistently Outraged Me’
The last photographs Linda Tirado took before she was shot in the face with a rubber-jacketed bullet show Minneapolis police aiming at her.
Right-Wing Cop-Bashing Didn’t Start With Trump
The right and the Republican Party have shown hostility toward federal law enforcement agencies for decades.
The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
Right-leaning media have used the uptick in certain crime categories to argue we need more cops and law enforcement to save our cities.
Extra! Soundbites June 2021
Things You Never Expect Michelle Kosinski, a TV journalist who’s served as CNN‘s White House reporter and a foreign correspondent for NBC, posted a tweet (5/8/21) that declared: As an American journalist, you never expect: Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to […]
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.
