Manufacturing ‘Crisis’: How Polling on the Border Exaggerates Extreme Opinions
Two media polls on immigration announced results that seemed almost willful efforts to portray the public as extremists.
Crediting Xenophobia—Rather Than Organizing—With Raising Workers’ Wages
It’s not really surprising that the Economist chose to focus on immigration policy rather than minimum wage regulations as an explanation for pay increases. Corporate media tend to be critical of calls to lift the wage floor, often citing exaggerated claims about unemployment.
From Venezuela to McCain, Media and Human Rights Industry on Same Page
On August 20, the Economist ran an article on Venezuela saying that “forced migration from the country might surpass the Syria crisis.” The magazine reported: The UN’s International Organization for Migration estimates that at the end of 2017 approximately 1.6 million Venezuelans were living outside their country. Today that number is likely to be far […]
The Economist’s Premature Obituary for the Sanders Movement
The Economist maintains that while Sanders is indeed the most popular politician in America, his time in the sun has passed, and that the popularity of his brand of progressive populism is vastly overstated.
Delusions of Radicalism: A Longstanding Media Syndrome
Think Progress‘s Matthew Yglesias (2/22/10) points to a rather bizarre Economist editorial (2/18/10) blaming President Barack Obama’s problems on his failure to move to the right: It is not so much that America is ungovernable, as that Mr. Obama has done a lousy job of winning over Republicans and independents to the causes he favors. […]
The Debate Over Afghanistan—Newspapers Are Full of It
In his Week in Review piece wondering if Obama’s Afghanistan policy is akin to LBJ and Vietnam, New York Times reporter Peter Baker notes that the public mood is seeping into the media: That growing disenchantment in the countryside is increasingly mirrored in Washington, where liberals in Congress are speaking out more vocally against the […]
The ‘Endemic Practices’ of ‘Revenue-Hungry News Orgs’
Furthering the story of “Washington Post executives–reeling…over a flier promoting a ‘salon’ for lobbyists to mingle with prominent newsmakers,” Politico reporters Michael Calderone and Andy Barr (7/4/09) think the suits at the Post might reasonably ask “Why us?”: The fact is the Post‘s clumsy effort to make money on its brand name and market its […]
