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“This budget proposal is one of the worst attacks on the environment that we have seen in our lifetime.”
The New York Times has a long tradition of promoting fascists while crying censorship when a leftist government defends itself against coups.
The primary “intractable bias” public broadcasting suffers from is toward the same elites that dominate the rest of establishment media.
“Steve Bannon…describes Mike Johnson as….’by far the most conservative speaker in the history of the country.'”
Shouldn’t the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
“That we should let climate change go unaddressed until the human race goes extinct…is a cornerstone of the Republican Party’s agenda.”
Elite media are deeply accustomed to calling any union action a harm, and any company acknowledgment of workers’ value a concession.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for journalists to take responsibility for their own role in the withering of democracy.
GOP resistance to a commission it helped form sends a clear message about its willingness to engage in any kind of democratic debate.
This annual round-up reflects the conversations we hope offered a voice or context or information that helped you interpret the news you read.
Vaccination seeks herd immunity without the massive human costs that come with letting the virus run its course.
“We have to be more demanding as citizens. We have to raise our expectations about our own significance as citizens.”
“It’s not that they failed at overturning the election; it’s that they succeeded in mainstreaming fascism and fascist tactics.”
Tucker Carlson, as a top media personality, is steering the right into a loose global confederation of illiberal political movements.
The revelations about AT&T and OAN puncture the myth that Trumpian populism is isolated on the fringes of Red State America.
CRT is “just a pathway to unearthing the ways in which our society has structured racial inequality into its everyday institutions, practices and policy priorities.”
“If Democrats just continue fiddling around and not accomplishing anything, it increases the likelihood that Republicans control the Senate next cycle.”
Despite Republicans’ obvious—often explicitly stated—goal of rigging future elections more successfully than they have in the past, many of those national media outlets can’t give up their commitment to both-sidesing the story, giving cover to the anti-democratic campaign.
A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates.
In coverage of Democratic positions on healthcare and climate change, the overwhelming emphasis was on electoral strategy, and not on the problems these policy proposals were designed to solve.
