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Blaming workers, hiding profits in primetime inflation coverage
“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
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Don’t trust polls on ‘Don’t Say Gay’
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.
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Escalation without consequences on the Op-Ed page
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.
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How much less newsworthy are civilians in other conflicts?
A lot less, particularly when they’re victims of the U.S.
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‘Student debt hurts the economy and cancellation will improve lives’
CounterSpin interview with Braxton Brewington on student loan debt.
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Western Media accuse China of wanting to do what U.S. does to other Countries
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.
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What you should really know about Ukraine
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.
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‘Mega-retailers are using inflation as a cover to raise prices and turn record profits’
CounterSpin interview with Rakeen Mabud on supply chain breakdown.
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Biden’s multi-Billion Afghan theft gets scant mention on TV News
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.
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The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so
Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?
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Reformist DAs spark Murdoch empire freakout
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.”
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Media don’t factcheck right-wing migration myths
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.
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‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’
CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent
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Media’s anti-‘woke’ mania moves social justice to the fringe
“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.
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Politico’s Staff must toe new owner’s line—including endorsing Israel
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).
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‘Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron’
CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.
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Deathly Silence: Journalists who mocked Assange have nothing to say about CIA plans to kill him
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.
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Censorship is ok when transphobes do it
An interview in the Guardian (9/7/21) made waves—not because of something it said, but because of something it didn’t say.
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U.S. media support tech regulation—unless it comes from China
Recently, U.S. media have been aghast at legislation affecting China’s tech sector.
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Where are the threads dropped with the criminal investigation of the Sackler family?’
CounterSpin interview with Rick Claypool on OxyContin immunity.