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April 25, 2017
WaPo Can Identify ‘Far Right’ in France—but in White House, It’s ‘Conservative’
There are no major ideological differences between White House strategist Steve Bannon and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. But in the Washington Post, Bannon and his backers are “conservatives,” while Le Pen and her National Front are “far right.”
April 11, 2017
Out of 47 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Only One Opposed
Of the top 100 US newspapers, 47 ran editorials on President Donald Trump’s Syria airstrikes last week: 39 in favor, seven ambiguous and only one opposed to the military attack.
April 7, 2017
The Essential Pundit Take: ‘Trump Became President’ by Bombing Syria
Note the assurance with which Zakaria insists that a military attack on a sovereign state, unauthorized by the United Nations and unjustifiable in terms of self-defense, signifies a new respect on Trump’s part for “global norms” and “international rules.”
April 7, 2017
The Return of the Dangerous ‘Obama Did Nothing’ Narrative on Syria
Despite the reality, the false conventional wisdom among Beltway politicians, pundits and press remained: Obama “did nothing” about Syria.
April 4, 2017
The Antarctic Ice Shelf Is Breaking Up–and USA Today Tells Us to ‘Chill Out’
USA Today’s headline writer picks up on notes of reassurance in an article on a global warming disaster.
March 30, 2017
Media Spin Headlines to Downplay US Responsibility for Mosul Massacre
The Washington Post reports that a recent airstrike in Mosul “was potentially one of the worst US-led civilian bombings in 25 years.” Yet leading news networks went out of their way to craft some of the most euphemistic headlines imaginable.
March 22, 2017
Right-Wing Foundation, Scary Nuke Maps Drive Narrative on North Korea ‘Threat’
A key feature of reports on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is the Hypothetical Scary Nuke Map that shows an entirely hypothetical, not-yet-proven-to-have-been-built intercontinental ballistic missile hitting the US mainland.
March 15, 2017
Media Find Room for ‘Trumpcare Too Progressive,’ but Not for Single-Payer
While even mass arrests couldn’t get attention to left-wing critics of the Democrat’s milquetoast health reform plan in 2009–10, today the far right is given thousands of words in the media, and plenty of air time on television, to air its ideological opposition to the current GOP plan.
March 7, 2017
George W. Bush Now on Right Side of Press Corps’s Nostalgia Machine
Post-presidency image rehabilitation is nothing new in American politics; US news media have been massaging the images of Oval Office alumni for decades.
March 1, 2017
Media Fawn Over Trump’s Success at Saying Words in Semi-Coherent Fashion
The expectations game was in full play during Trump’s speech to Congress last night: So long as Trump wasn’t his petulant, incoherent, race-baiting self, it would be considered a victory for the 45th president.
February 28, 2017
Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as ‘Confederate Flag Incident’
The casual media observer was led to believe that a Georgia couple received lengthy prison sentences for simply showing up to a child’s birthday party waving flags.
February 9, 2017
NYT: Unlike Russian Wars, US Wars ‘Promote Freedom and Democracy’
Aghast that the president could equate the moral worth of the United States with that of the dastardly Russians, the New York Times’ editorial board published a flag-waving scolding called “Blaming America First.”
February 6, 2017
How Corporate Media Paved the Way for Trump’s Muslim Ban
while it’s important to lay primary blame for the Muslim travel ban at the feet of the man who signed it, years of Islamophobic coverage in corporate media—right-wing, centrist and “liberal”—laid the propaganda groundwork to get us here.
February 2, 2017
30 Washington Post Articles on Gorsuch’s Nomination—Not a Single One Opposed
Of the 30 items published on Gorsuch since Trump’s announcement, 17 could be construed as neutral and 13 were explicitly positive. None openly opposed Gorsuch or leveled criticisms beyond mild qualifiers:
February 2, 2017
Media Need to Treat Presidential Lawbreaking as a Matter of Fact
Saying that the president is breaking the law feels like taking sides, whereas asserting that “the president has broad legal authority to restrict immigration” seems like the kind of thing a “neutral” journalist would say.
January 29, 2017
First They Came for the Immigrants–and NYT Said People Should Anonymously Inform on Them
“The Ethicist” offers some advice that’s relevant to the Trump era of heightened xenophobia, ethnic scapegoating and threats to civil liberties: If someone confides to you about an immigration violation, he says, you should inform against them to the government.
January 19, 2017
NYT Ignored Reality at 2001 Bush Inauguration; Now Ignorance Is History
Given the paper of record’s strenuous downplaying of the 2001 inaugural protests in the name of “Tradition and Legitimacy,” it’s not surprising that 16 years later, the paper’s reporters remember those protests as being “modest.”
January 11, 2017
‘We’re Seeing the Result of a 40-Year Assault on the Liberal Mainstream’
“What we see as a result of McCarthyism is a much narrower range of political ideas that impoverished the American political scene.”
January 9, 2017
American Media Must Do Better in 2017
There is a crisis in American journalism. For too long, news outlets have prioritized their bottom line over real stories, at the expense of the American people. Stories about the vast systemic problems in America, from war to staggering income inequality to climate change to the amount of money being spent on our political system, […]
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