Tag: mainstream media
For US commentators on Iran, mass murder is magic
These observers traffic in illusions about a virtually omnipotent U.S. that can indefinitely control the world through force of arms, consequence-free.
CBS invited a war criminal to their dinner party
This is just one example of mainstream media not only refusing to ask questions of war criminals, but blatantly befriending them.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
FBI is making an enemies list—and most corporate media didn’t even...
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
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.
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Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.