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Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel are, by mainstream media standards, ideological opposites. Thomas is a far-right pundit, and Beckel is what you might call a Fox News Democrat. They spar in the pages of USA Today from time to time, though the point generally seems to be finding “common ground.” The headline of today’s installment […]
The media trope that presidents-elect ought to break progressive campaign promises really displays the anti-democratic and pro-corporate biases of the press at their most glaring. Who cares what you told the voters? Here’s what the interests that really matter want you to do. The latest instance in this sad series is a USA Today editorial […]
Today’s USA Today editorial: How Obama Can Be a Uniter If Barack Obama wants to show he meant what he said about bridging the blue state-red state divide, there’s an easy way do it: Ask the best of President Bush’s appointees to stay on and adopt some of Sen. John McCain’s better ideas. If Obama […]
USA Today Reader Editor Brent Jones responded to questions, prompted by a FAIR Action Alert (1/23/08), about the newspaper’s failure to identify a white supremacist group by arguing that doing so would have been an illegitimate “judgment” on the part of the paper. USA Today had run two stories on the Nationalist Movement, a group […]
USA Today twice (1/16/08; 1/21/08) allowed racist spin to go unchallenged when it identified a white supremacist group that organized a small anti-civil rights rally on Martin Luther King Day only as a “white ‘pro-majority’ group.” The Nationalist Movement mustered about 30-50 people in Jena to protest both King Day and the 20,000-strong protest held […]
The White House veto of a Congressional plan to expand the SCHIP children’s health care program seemed to run against public opinion, which squarely supports the measure. But USA Today conducted a misleading poll that assisted the Bush administration’s efforts to portray the veto as an effort to help poor children. On October 16, the […]
More on Richard Clarke and his charges against the White House. Also on CounterSpin: discussion on USA Today reporter, James Kelly, and his fabricated news stories.
