‘Liberal’ MSNBC Runs All-Star Lineup of Awful Right-Wing Guests
Please send your suggestions to MSNBC about who would make better guests than mercenary entrepreneurs, former CIA directors and white nationalists.
‘There Is a Strong Reason for All Americans to Feel More Economically Insecure Than They Did Before the Great Recession’
Janine Jackson interviewed Dedrick Asante-Muhammad about the racial wealth divide for the August 10 episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. [mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpinDedrick Asante-Muhammad Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin180810Muhammad.mp3″] MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Last September, elite media were heralding numbers suggesting that incomes were up among middle class Americans, but tiptoeing around the fact that the […]
Media Econ 101
There are certain economic ideas and values that corporate media either leave unchallenged or aggressively promote
WaPo Can’t Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It
The Washington Post defines (and laments) Corey Stewart’s embrace of white supremacist ideas, and the people who act on them, not as him being a white supremacist, but as “court[ing] white supremacists.”
‘The Black Athlete Has Been Involved in the Political Struggle From the Beginning’
“The black athlete is the most important and most influential and most visible black employee in the 20th century, because they’re the ones who were allowed to integrate the society.”
Howard Bryant on Black Athletes & Activism
“Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues,” says the NFL’s Malcolm Jenkins. “And so for us, it’s staying on topic, doing the work, supporting those who are doing the work and pushing forward.”
Anti-Trump Cartoons Stopped by Censor at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Post-Gazette refused to publish six of staff cartoonist Rob Rogers’ cartoons in a row. Four were directly critical of President Donald Trump, and two alluded to racism.
Call Them by Their Names
The identities of white people who report people of color to the police for doing innocuous things are far more closely protected than those of people falsely targeted for “suspicious” behavior.
Could Ida B. Wells Have Exposed Lynching on Your Newsfeed?
Would Ida B. Wells’ exposes of lynching ever have made it into my news feed on Facebook? I doubt it, because Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced May 1 in a meeting with media executives that his company had started ranking news organizations by “trust.”
10 of the Most Sociopathic Washington Post Columns
For casually threatening economic ruin, inciting violence against entire populations, pushing for bombing faceless Muslims, or downplaying racism and child rape, there’s no better outlet than long-time echo chamber of power-serving conventional wisdom, the Washington Post.
Public Radio’s McCarthyite Smear of Black Activists Shows Danger of Russia Panic
The Russia-Is-Everywhere-and-Out-to-Get-US narrative has reached its inevitable, sleazy nadir: the smearing of a black activist by an NPR affiliate for the crime of going on a Russian government–funded radio station a handful of times.
Extra! April 2018 Soundbites
NPR Brings You the Unheard Voice of Rush Limbaugh…Boosting Trump’s Tax Bill With ‘Bonus’ Hype…NYT: Don’t Be Misled by Claims That CEOs Are Rich…Israel’s ‘Retaliatory’ Bombing of Syria for Shooting Down an Israeli Bomber…From ‘Sidelines,’ US Controls 1/4th of Syria…‘Anti-Propaganda Warrior,’ You Have a Mission Closer to Home…Pro-Capitalist Times
Voters Shift Left—Thanks to Social Media?
The rise of social media platforms like Twitter (launched in 2006) and Facebook (opened to the general public in the same year) allowed people to share news and opinions directly, giving them an opportunity to gravitate towards outlets and outlooks that resonate with them.
‘We Can Change the Political Feasibility’
“This is a time for us to be pushing harder. We can change the political feasibility. That’s something that the public has the power to do.”
NYT Sees ‘Little Response’ to Russian Threat—Other Than $1 Trillion in New Nukes, of Course
For the New York Times, the US is always lagging behind the Russian menace. Previously, the Times has told us how America was losing the “scramble for the Arctic” and falling behind in election-meddling. Now it’s in the realms of cyber and nuclear war that the Times sees dangerous gaps.
What’s a Non-Racist Way to Appeal to Working-Class Whites? NYT’s Edsall Can’t Think of Any
If you want the support of working-class whites without engaging in xenophobia or other forms of race-baiting, the obvious approach is to appeal to them as members of the working class. But Thomas Edsall seems to have another agenda.
Evidence of Violent Extremism of Little Interest When Killer Is White
Had killer Mark Anthony Conditt been a brown Muslim, it’s hard to imagine corporate media not at least speculating that hateful ideology was a motive, and using (or at least debating the use of) the term “terrorism” to describe his crimes.
National Geographic Looks at Its Racism—but Not Too Closely
National Geographic has long had a negative reputation for exoticizing people of color, and failing to challenge colonialism and its legacies. The magazine addresses this history in its new issue–but the magazine rather steps on its message.
Rahul Mahajan on Fallujah, Omar Farah on DHS’s ‘Race Paper’
In April 2004, CounterSpin spoke with journalist Rahul Mahajan, just returned from Fallujah. We replay that interview to mark the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
Copspeak: When Black Children Suddenly Become ‘Juveniles’
When reporters refer to children or teenagers as “juveniles,” this works to criminalize and dehumanize a distinction—being a child—we would otherwise view in a sympathetic light.
