Tag: mainstream media
Burned? Media bias against Bernie Sanders intensifies
Now he just has to wait for most of the media and the American political class to acknowledge and understand his movement, probably a more difficult task.
Study: Major media outlets’ Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on...
News outlets are still failing to grapple with a major problem that media critics highlighted during the Trump transition.
Why so many journalists are clueless about the Bernie 2020 Campaign
The elite-oriented atmosphere of media aversion to Sanders is in sync with media disregard for the power of community-based activism that could result in a Sanders presidency.
Bernie busts Uncle Joe
I am happy to point out that Bernie raised a lot of money in a single day and no one in the media (except LA Progressive and yours truly, plus a lot of tweets and Reddit postings), pointed this out.
Comcast-owned MSNBC in the tank for Joe Biden’s presidential run
Biden has already seen his share of coverage, and was the second-most-mentioned Democratic candidate on cable news during the first three months of 2019.
Fox’s Brian Kilmeade calls for armed worshipers after California synagogue mass...
Kilmeade: "I think you have to go ready to defend yourself, ready to defend the congregation who are going there."
Can we stop pretending now?
Donald Trump is a bullshit artist of the first order. Yet all art reflects the time in which it’s produced and Trump’s art is no exception.
Who bankrolls Tucker Carlson’s hateful propaganda? Why the Kochs of course.
Carlson’s moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Caller is heavily bankrolled by – you guessed it – the Koch brothers.
Dog Day Amerika
Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon is worth watching, if just for one reason. That would be the total fascination by many in...
As Mueller finds no collusion, did press overhype Russiagate? Glenn Greenwald...
"This is the saddest media spectacle I’ve ever seen, since I began practicing journalism in 2005."
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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.