Tag: mainstream media

In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as U.S. support for the Maidan coup in 2014.

One of the “most consistent criticisms of the political press from the left these days is that it treats politics and policy as ‘normal’ when the United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of democracy.”

The majority of Americans at that time, and even now, never dared to question what our government and embedded media shoveled at them.

The mainstream media is doing a rotten job informing America about one of the most important pieces of legislation to come along in decades.

"When we talk about big money controlling this country, it's not only the direct political process but it's how we even learn about what's going on in this country."

Today it’s democracy versus authoritarianism, voting rights versus white supremacy.

Advocates say an alternate site in Washington Park is less disruptive and more beneficial to the community and the environment.

When humans seek to take aggressive action against this aggressive reality, reporters frame those goals as lofty and unlikely to succeed.

While giving the protests a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.

Critical race theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, but the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that encourages talking about and addressing racism.