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  • What media like best about Elizabeth Warren: She’s not Bernie Sanders

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 23, 2019 by Julie Hollar (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    If Warren ever finds herself without media’s bête noire to draft off of—assuming her policy stances remain the same—the media headwinds can be expected to get much more intense for her.

  • Depiction of 8-year-old homeless child Tanitoluwa Adewumi

    The homeless 8-year-old chess champion and other horrific ‘uplifting’ stories

    Originally published: Alan Macleod on March 25, 2019 (more by Alan Macleod)  |

    In the worsening economic climate, a growing number of these supposedly “uplifting” stories become unintentionally horrifying after a moment’s reflection.

  • Daring democracy

    How the anti-democracy movement use media to command the narrative

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 26, 2018 by Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    As far back as 1835, perhaps our nation’s earliest and most astute observer, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood the power of the media. He described the press as “the chief democratic instrument of freedom.” But today our “instrument of freedom” seems to mean the freedom to enrich oneself privately, whatever it takes. How did we get to this sad state?

  • Cindy Cohn featured photo

    ‘You can’t watchdog government if government’s watching all your communication’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 2, 2018 by Janine Jackson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

     “Congress Advances Bill to Renew NSA Surveillance Program After Trump Briefly Upstages Key Vote” was the headline on a Washington Post article. The lead described the bill as reauthorizing “the government’s authority to conduct foreign surveillance on U.S. soil.”

  • A demonstrator waves a huge Iranian flag during a pro-government rally

    Think Tank-Addicted media turn to regime change enthusiasts for Iran protest commentary

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 5, 2018 by Adam Johnson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Since the outbreak of mass demonstrations and unrest in Iran last week, U.S. media have mostly busied themselves with the question of not if we should “do something,” but what, exactly, that something should be. As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of Iran, under the vague blanket of “human rights” and “democracy promotion.”

  • Suyapa Portillo featured

    ‘Whether or not the Presidents change, the Generals remain connected’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 18, 2017 by Janine Jackson interviewing Suyapa Portillo (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Suyapa Portillo on Honduras Electoral Chaos

  • 'Don't block my net' protesters

    Net neutrality repeal is only part of Trump’s surrender to corporate media

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 14, 2017 by Reed Richardson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The FCC is under attack—and so too is the First Amendment. As the primary regulator of how media and information gets to our nation’s citizens, the Federal Communications Commission has a critical role to play in protecting the open Internet, free speech, and free press in our democracy.

  • WaPo’s one-sided cheerleading for coup and intervention in Venezuela

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 4, 2017 by Adam Johnson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Washington Post has put out 15 opinion pieces on issues surrounding Venezuela, and they are disturbing and far from the truth.

  • Anti-fascists push back against a fascist protestor with a Pinochet T-shirt

    In month after Charlottesville, papers spent as much time condemning anti-nazis as nazis

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 13, 2017 by Adam Johnson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Since the Charlottesville attack a month ago, a review of commentary in the six top broadsheet newspapers—the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, San Jose Mercury News and Washington Post—found virtually equal amounts of condemnation of fascists and anti-fascist protesters.

  • Honduran Coup

    NYT claims U.S. opposed Honduran coup it actually supported

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 18, 2017 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Have we in the U.S. have forgotten what happened in Honduras? Or is that many of us believe falsehoods about that history brought to us by media like the New York Times?

  • Trump trying to go after alt-left

    Centrist pundits paved way for Trump’s ‘alt-left’ false equivalence

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 16, 2017 by Adam Johnson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Nominal media liberals, charged with opposing Trump and the emerging far right, have prioritized demonizing the left and in doing so have helped pave the way for Trump’s neo-Nazi whitewashing.

  • South Bend Voice at 2014 Peoples Climate March

    Talking about a revolution

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 1, 2017 by Jim Naureckas (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The conflict between the needs of the majority and the interests of the few runs throughout our economy.

  • Mosul airstrike aftermath

    Corporate media largely silent on Trump’s civilian death toll in Iraq

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 19, 2017 by Adam Johnson (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Neither the recent report on the civilian deaths and war crimes in Mosul (published by Amnesty International), nor the broader issue of the civilian toll in the US war against ISIS, has come close to penetrating US corporate media. Can one imagine this frame in reporting on Russia’s siege of Aleppo? Can one imagine highlighting Syrian and Russian doctors, treating the very civilians their governments just bombed, in such an uncritical manner? Can one imagine the US media blaming all the deaths caused by Russian bombing as the sole fault of those occupying the city?

  • Violent Media Rhetoric Beyond Tucson: When Some Calls for Violence Are Acceptable

    FAIR

    The discussion of violent and paranoid rhetoric in the media is long overdue, whether or not it is ever determined that accused Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner was somehow influenced or motivated by such rhetoric.  Before the shooting, there had been a remarkable surge of politically motivated violence (FAIR Blog, 1/12/11).  Despite media efforts to […]

  • Inventing a Nation of Deficit Hawks

    FAIR

    Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress like to argue that public concern over federal budget deficits makes it impossible to pass a new round of job-creating stimulus spending.  And corporate media like to echo these sentiments, despite there being little evidence that citizens are as concerned about these issues as inside-the-Beltway deficit hawks. In the […]

  • NYT Slams Single-Payer

    FAIR

    NYT Fails to Include Advocates among ‘Diverse’ Experts The New York Times devoted some rare space on September 20 to discussing single-payer (or Medicare-for-all) health reform.  The result?  A one-sided account of why such a system couldn’t work. With a headline like “Medicare for All?  ‘Crazy,’ ‘Socialized’ and Unlikely,” readers probably had a sense of […]

  • Flirting with Fascism on CNN Headline News: Host Glenn Beck Threatens Muslims with Concentration Camps

    FAIR

    Annual Fundraising Appeal Friends of MRZine and Monthly Review! The continuing existence of MRZine and Monthly Review depends on the support of our readers.  Unlike many other publications, we make all new Monthly Review articles, as well as MRZine articles, available online, free of charge.  We do so without drawing any advertising money at all […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

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