Tag: mainstream media
What do we want? Unbiased reporting! When do we want it?...
Protests identify legitimate grievances in society, and often tackle issues that affect people who lack the power to address them through other means.
How do we cover Iran better in the news? Include more...
“Without an Iranian to parse out information—who truly understands that identity—the American consumer is not getting the story. And their opinions and voting habits will be swayed in a direction that is misinformed.”
To corporate media, an exercise bike ad is more newsworthy than...
Even when media did choose to cover the NDAA, the majority of these outlets chose to focus on the main victory that was negotiated by Democrats.
‘Afghan Papers’ wouldn’t be needed if we had a real independent...
Embedded journalists and news organizations that hire retired generals for commentary don’t give the true picture.
Malignant normality silently takes hold in America
The national media should free itself from this president’s constant demand for exposure and attention.
For corporate media, it’s ‘anybody but Sanders or Warren’
History is unfolding in real-time. It’s not a product on the media shelf, to be passively bought and consumed.
Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong...
It makes little sense if one assumes corporate journalists are primarily concerned with informing the public.
Max Blumenthal arrest exposes hypocrisy of western media and ‘human rights’...
Here’s an idea for media outlets and NGOs concerned about the appeal of Russian public relations efforts: start doing your jobs by holding your own authoritarian politicians and politicized police forces to account.
The revolution isn’t being televised
Media uninterested in protest movements around the world.
What George Carlin taught us about media propaganda by omission
George Carlin’s quip reminds us to demand the other score: the horrific cost of our unequal and unsustainable status quo.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.