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  • | Blaming Workers Hiding Profits in Primetime Inflation Coverage | MR Online

    Blaming workers, hiding profits in primetime inflation coverage

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 21, 2022 by Ines Santos and Luca GoldMansour (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Apr 23, 2022)

    “Two bills of spending that are more than $4 trillion. And we’re going to pretend that this is going to have no effect on jobs? No effect on inflation?” – Charles Lanes

  • | Dont Trust Polls on Dont Say Gay | MR Online

    Don’t trust polls on ‘Don’t Say Gay’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 14, 2022 by David Moore (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Apr 20, 2022)

    Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a “Parental Rights” bill to restrict some instruction in schools that pertains to sexual orientation and gender identity. Three polls have been conducted purporting to measure the public’s reaction to the bill, but they produce the illusion of public opinion rather than reality.

  • | Nofly zone | MR Online

    Escalation without consequences on the Op-Ed page

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 22, 2022 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Mar 25, 2022)

    Corporate media outlets are calling for the United States and its allies to react to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by escalating the war.

  • | During the invasions of their countries US TV news was much more likely to talk to civilians from Ukraine left ABC 22622 than from Iraq right CBS 31913 | MR Online

    How much less newsworthy are civilians in other conflicts?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 18, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    A lot less, particularly when they’re victims of the U.S.

  • | Braxton Brewington | MR Online

    ‘Student debt hurts the economy and cancellation will improve lives’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 10, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    CounterSpin interview with Braxton Brewington on student loan debt.

  • | Robert D Kaplan Wall Street Journal 11322 Imperialism throughout history has often originated from a deep well of insecurity | MR Online

    Western Media accuse China of wanting to do what U.S. does to other Countries

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 2, 2022 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Mar 04, 2022)

    A flurry of recent newspaper articles have denounced what they describe as Chinese imperialism. Such texts are part of a new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves U.S. imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.

  • | John Deni Wall Street Journal 122221 The West ought to stand firm even if it means another Russian invasion of Ukraine because even though the human toll will be extensive the longterm damage suffered by Moscowis likely to be substantial as well | MR Online

    What you should really know about Ukraine

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 2, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    Russia’s demand that NATO cease its expansion to Russia’s borders is viewed as such an obviously impossible demand that it can only be understood as a pretext to invade Ukraine.

  • | Rakeen Mobud | MR Online

    ‘Mega-retailers are using inflation as a cover to raise prices and turn record profits’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 14, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    CounterSpin interview with Rakeen Mabud on supply chain breakdown.

  • | Austin Ahlman Intercept 21122 The decision puts Biden on track to cause more death and destruction in Afghanistan than was caused by the 20 years of war that he ended | MR Online

    Biden’s multi-Billion Afghan theft gets scant mention on TV News

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 15, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    Two months ago (FAIR.org, 12/21/21), I noted the striking contrast between vocal media outrage—ostensibly grounded in concern for Afghan people—over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and the relative silence over the growing humanitarian crisis in that country, which threatens millions with life-threatening levels of famine.

  • | Politico 2122 framed its article around attacks on Amnesty International quoting charges that it was just another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination and likely motivated by antisemitism | MR Online

    The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 3, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?

  • | New York Post 121621 George Soros funnels cash through a complicated web | MR Online

    Reformist DAs spark Murdoch empire freakout

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 14, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who took office January 1, wasted no time getting in the headlines, telling his prosecutors (New York Times, 1/6/22) that they should seek “jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses—including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money.”

  • | LA Times 31821 As each side seeks to rally supporters and shape public opinion the parties have pressed dueling narratives | MR Online

    Media don’t factcheck right-wing migration myths

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 1, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    Increases and declines in unauthorized immigration mostly correlate with changes in job opportunities and other economic conditions in the United States and in nearby countries.

  • | Peter Maybarduk | MR Online

    ‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent

  • | David Brooks New York Times 51321 on woke language Performing the discourse by canceling and shaming becomes a way of establishing your status and power as an enlightened person | MR Online

    Media’s anti-‘woke’ mania moves social justice to the fringe

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    “Woke” is the label the aggrieved conservative suburbanite puts on the indignity of having to call their Starbucks barista “they” and finding Ibram X. Kendi on their child’s school reading list.

  • | Jerusalem Post depiction 63021 of Axel Springer CEO Matthias Döpfner | MR Online

    Politico’s Staff must toe new owner’s line—including endorsing Israel

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 5, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    It’s been a rough time for German media giant Axel Springer. The company ousted the top editor at Bild, one of its most influential right-wing newspapers, over sexual harassment charges (New York Times, 10/18/21).

  • | Paul Paz y Miño Its the playbook for these corporations to fight back against activists journalists lawyers human rights organizations | MR Online

    ‘Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 28, 2021 by Interviewing Paul Paz y Miño (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.

  • | Yahoo News 92621 reported that discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred at the highest levels of the Trump administration | MR Online

    Deathly Silence: Journalists who mocked Assange have nothing to say about CIA plans to kill him

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 8, 2021 by John McEvoy (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Oct 11, 2021)

    It would seem that covert plans for the state-sanctioned murder on British soil of an award-winning journalist should attract sustained, wall-to-wall media coverage.

  • | Judith Butler | MR Online

    Censorship is ok when transphobes do it

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 24, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Oct 01, 2021)

    An interview in the Guardian (9/7/21) made waves—not because of something it said, but because of something it didn’t say.

  • | The Wall Street Journal 61221 | MR Online

    U.S. media support tech regulation—unless it comes from China

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 14, 2021 by Julianne Tveten (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) (Posted Sep 16, 2021)

    Recently, U.S. media have been aghast at legislation affecting China’s tech sector.

  • | Rick Claypool | MR Online

    Where are the threads dropped with the criminal investigation of the Sackler family?’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 10, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))

    CounterSpin interview with Rick Claypool on OxyContin immunity.

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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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