YouTube’s Biggest Info Channels Carry Corporate News, Not Alternative Views
Despite the focus on YouTube’s independent and sometimes extremist offerings, 83 of the top 100 YouTube news channels are corporate media,
YouTube Continues to Selectively Enforce Its Terms of Service
YouTube’s decision seems to solidify that the video platform will continue to be a welcoming home for channels that promote hate speech and harassment, and serve as a conduit for laundering far-right ideology—as long as those channels continue to make YouTube money.
‘Disability Issues Tend to Be Put on a Back Burner’
“One of the things about disability issues that’s sort of unique, is that details always matter with our issues, whether it’s the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, or the difference between a half-inch step and no step at all.”
Andrew Pulrang on Disability and the Election
People with disabilities are “severely underrepresented in elected office,” which goes a way toward explaining why—in 2018—disabled people’s full inclusion in all aspects of social life is still largely framed as a matter of “accommodation” rather than rights.
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.
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.”
With Literal Nazis Running for Office, NYT Suggests Candidate’s Israel Criticism Is Antisemitic
The New York Times story isn’t about “charges of antisemitism,” it’s about criticism of Israel. The headline ought to have said, “Democratic Candidate Questioned About Criticism of Israel.”
YouTube as Conspiracy Conduit
While radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage indoctrinated older demographics in conspiratorial right-wing politics in recent decades, right-wing YouTube videos serve the same purpose for younger age groups.
‘The NRA Has Basically Become Part of the Republican Party’
The NRA is a bit of a paper tiger, and I think more and more legislators will find that out as they challenge the NRA.
