Tag: corporate media
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.
Clooney, Holt, and others push ageist tropes against Biden instead of...
George Clooney pushed ageist tropes against Biden in New York Times. Then Lester Holt and others piled up as well, instead of whistleblowing Project 2025.
Trump’s alleged $1 billion oil deal exposed: Media blackout raises alarms
A stunning quid pro quo promise to Big Oil executives by former President Donald Trump receives scant coverage, raising questions about media integrity and democratic accountability.
Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed...
For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.
When corporate media fail, independent media rise up
Corporate media outlets have often furthered racist narratives, and do so even today. In contrast, independent media outlets have centered racial justice, offering platforms to marginalized communities.
How spin and lies fuel a bloody war of attrition in...
U.S. officials and corporate media have buried the U.S. role in the crisis in Ukraine under a "white hats vs. black hats" narrative that fuels a bloody war of attrition that military experts compare to the First World War
Sanders’ hearing on corporate greed goes unnoticed by corporate media
"The Democratic leadership has to decide what they want most—votes or more corporate campaign money to further enrich their consultants who themselves are often conflicted due to their own business clients."
How corporate media has put the American public in a state...
“[p]sychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real.… It can be triggered by… extreme stress or trauma.”
Western media accuse China of wanting to do what US does...
A new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.
How can the US accuse any nation of violating ‘rules-based international...
The implication is that if Congressional approves an illegal war or act of war, that makes it legit.
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Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.
Poof! It’s gone
The America we once knew...gone!
What are Erik Prince’s plans for the second Trump administration?
New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.
NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake of Trump cuts
The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.
GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...
New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.