Friday, October 23, 2026

Tag: mainstream media

Corporate media have second thoughts about exiling Julian Assange from journalism

Corporate media dutifully laid the groundwork for the U.S. Department of Justice’s escalating political persecution of the WikiLeaks founder, and set the stage for a renewed assault on a free and independent press by the Trump administration.

A million extinctions eclipsed by one royal grandbaby

Mainstream media gave more time to the royal baby’s birth in the week he was born than to all stories about the climate crisis in all of 2018.

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.

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Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, the day of the Dobbs decision. Photo: John Brighenti / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Report counts 902 pregnancy-related prosecutions in three years after Dobbs

Pregnancy Justice found that most cases involved child neglect or endangerment charges and that substance use was alleged in 871 of them.
An I Voted sticker. Photo: NMGiovannucci / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CMS rescinds nursing home voting guidance and issues new memo on coercion

The July 20 memo replaced 2020 and 2024 guidance. Senators asked the agency in August to reinstate the earlier versions.
The Department of Education headquarters in Washington. Photo: G. Edward Johnson / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Education Department drops appeal of ruling that struck down loan forgiveness employer rule

The rule would have let the education secretary disqualify nonprofit and government employers from Public Service Loan Forgiveness. A federal court vacated it on June 30.
The emergency entrance of Shands Starke Regional Medical Center in Starke, Florida. Photo: Michael Rivera / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trump Dangles Rural Health Dollars To Push States To Change Hospital Laws

The Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding for states partly to the policy commitments they make, including ending their certificate of need, or CON, laws governing the construction of new hospitals.
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.