Tag: mainstream media
Media largely ignored Gaza famine when there was time to avert...
Major U.S. media, likewise, bear a share of responsibility for the hunger-related deaths in Gaza.
Support oppositional press—not media owned by Fascist collaborators
In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.
Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for...
The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.
Rupert Murdoch loses his legal battle, leaving future of media empire...
The New York Times revealed details of the recent secret hearing in a Nevada probate court that was literally prompted by the epic HBO drama Succession.
NPR’s ‘balance’ serves to normalize Trump’s highly abnormal cabinet picks
They must be confirmed by the Senate, which means the media play an important role in helping bring to light their records and qualifications.
Media blame left for Trump victory—rather than their own fear-based business...
Corporate media should know the strategy: Fear works!
Why the media’s ‘sanewashing’ of Trump is uniquely dangerous
In their attempts to normalize an obviously abnormal candidate, major media outlets risk shirking their responsibility to do the most fundamental job of the free press at their own peril: To tell the truth.
How corporate news has tried to numb Americans to the horrors...
The process has become so routine that we might not recognize how omission and distortion have constantly shaped views of events since the war began in October.
Beltway Media has gone from a defender of democracy to an...
A robust political press should be trusted to both accurately report the facts and hold politicians from both sides to the same standard.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.