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  • | Conflict Beef | MR Online

    Progressive media promoted a false story of ‘conflict beef’ from Nicaragua

    Originally published: FAIR on December 4, 2020 by John Perry (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Apr 05, 2021)

    Reports by Reveal (10/21/20) and PBS NewsHour (10/20/21) called for a boycott of “conflict beef” from Nicaragua. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal claims to be “fair and comprehensive” and PBS to be “trusted,” but their misleading and inaccurate reports could have drastic consequences for Nicaragua, at a time when the country is already struggling […]

  • | Basav Sen | MR Online

    ‘The U.S. has been obstructionist in chief in Global climate talks’

    Originally published: FAIR on February 10, 2021 (more by FAIR)  |

    CounterSpin interview with Basav Sen on rejoining the Paris accords.

  • | The Sun Times 11221 demands As the vaccine is rolled out to them in the coming weeks teachers need to rise to the occasion and return to in person teaching right now | MR Online

    Covering school reopening, Chicago papers pit unions against parents

    Originally published: FAIR on February 3, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2021)

    As FAIR (12/9/20) has reported, the New York Times has pushed for reopening public schools over teachers union concerns in New York City.

  • | Wuhan Exhibit | MR Online

    NYT’s China syndrome

    Originally published: FAIR on January 29, 2021 (more by FAIR)  |

    Imagine a parallel world where the U.S. brought Covid under control in two months, while China still struggled with it, a year and hundreds of thousands of deaths later.

  • | A New York TimesPro Publica article 121920 on how China promoted a soothing message from the Communist Party that it had the virus firmly under control neglected to point out that the Chinese Communist Party in fact had the virus firmly under control | MR Online

    Corporate Media’s leaked Chinese documents confirm China didn’t hide COVID-19

    Originally published: FAIR on January 20, 2021 (more by FAIR)  |

    Several reports on China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic came out late last year, based on what U.S. outlets like CNN, the New York Times and ProPublica claimed to be leaked Chinese documents. Although these reports implied that China was responsible for how bad the pandemic has been because of its downplaying of numbers and censoring of critical information, these narratives are themselves misleading in several ways.

  • | Ezekiel Emanual The Atlantic | MR Online

    Media Elevate Eugenicists, sideline disabled voices in discussions of Covid rationing

    Originally published: FAIR on January 20, 2021 by Justine Barron (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2021)

    In the sticky conversations around rationing life-saving treatments and vaccines during the Covid pandemic, corporate media have elevated some experts without disclosing their troubling views on disability, aging and the value of human life. Meanwhile, media outlets have largely sidelined the voices of disabled activists and others who could speak on behalf of those most affected by the pandemic.

  • | Crying Wolf on Election Fraud Is OK at NYTif Targets Are Official Enemies | MR Online

    Crying wolf on election fraud is OK at NYT—if targets are official enemies

    Originally published: FAIR on November 20, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    President Donald Trump’s categorical refusal to accept what seems like an inevitable and increasingly crushing election loss has many in media rightly worried about the political repercussions of such a move, with some sounding the alarm over a potential coup d’etat in the U.S. (e.g., Salon, 11/11/20; Washington Post, 11/12/20; Guardian, 11/13/20; New Republic, 11/13/20).

  • | When Centrists Lose Corporate Media Blame the Left | MR Online

    When Centrists lose, corporate media blame the left

    Originally published: FAIR on November 10, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist.

  • | Panic Over Cancel Culture Is Another Example of Right Wing Projection | MR Online

    Panic over ‘Cancel Culture’ is another example of right-wing projection

    Originally published: FAIR on October 23, 2020 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2020)

    The Republican National Convention this year made fighting “cancel culture” a priority for the party. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote in the Wall Street Journal (7/27/20) that cancel culture was at the heart of the crisis facing academic freedom in the nation.

  • | No China Didnt Stall Critical Covid Information at Outbreaks Start | MR Online

    No, China didn’t ‘stall’ critical Covid information at outbreak’s start

    Originally published: FAIR on October 14, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Now that some time has passed since the beginning of the outbreak, it’s worth revisiting the less-conspiratorial corporate media narrative that the Chinese government maliciously or incompetently delayed the release of critical information early on, thereby causing many unnecessary deaths.

  • | Democratic Socialists of America members at Occupy Wall Street 2011 cc photo David Shankbone | MR Online

    Socialism’s increasing popularity doesn’t bring media out of McCarthy era

    Originally published: FAIR on October 9, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Ever since the Great Recession in 2008, and accelerating with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run, there has been a resurgence of popularity and interest in socialism in the U.S., and an increasing skepticism of capitalism.

  • | NBC News depiction 81020 of workers at the Wuhan lab Feature ChinaBarcroft Media via Getty Images | MR Online

    Evidence-free ‘lab leak’ speculation boosts Trump’s Xenophobic approach to Coronavirus

    Originally published: FAIR on October 6, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China has been the target of relentless hostile and racist media coverage, depicting the country as a uniquely nefarious source of disease (FAIR.org, 3/24/20, 5/7/20).

  • | Julian Assange Press Shows Little Interest in Media Trial of Century | MR Online

    Julian Assange: Press shows little interest in media ‘trial of century’

    Originally published: FAIR on September 25, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Yet the case has been met with indifference from the corporate press. Even as their house is burning down, media are insisting it is just the Northern Lights.

  • | Media Blame Gender Reveal Parties Not Climate Change for West Coast Fires | MR Online

    Media blame gender reveal parties, not climate change, for West Coast fires

    Originally published: FAIR on September 18, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    The West is on fire, quite literally. A record-breaking heatwave has sparked unprecedented wildfires up and down the coast, turning the sky an apocalyptic, terrifying shade of red.

  • | An audioanimatronic Donald Trump with previous presidents at Disneys Hall of Presidents | MR Online

    American deceptionalism

    Originally published: FAIR on August 24, 2020 by Reed Richardson (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2020)

    How the centuries-old disconnect between our country’s ideals and its cruel realities have fueled more than two centuries of presidential lying.

  • | On Right Wing Violence in Texas Medias Silence Sends Message Tyler assault | MR Online

    On right-wing violence in Texas, media’s silence sends message

    Originally published: FAIR on August 11, 2020 by Henry Brennan (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Aug 15, 2020)

    Hank Gilbert, the Democratic challenger to Rep. Louie Gohmert in Texas’ 1st congressional district, held a rally in Tyler, Texas, on July 26 against federal law enforcement agencies’ recent intervention in Portland, Oregon. But armed participants of a “Back the Blue” counter-protest crashed the event, beating and robbing attendees in the park.

  • | Carol Anderson | MR Online

    ‘What we’re seeing now is Jim Crow 2.0’

    Originally published: FAIR on August 7, 2020 by CounterSpin interviewing Carol Anderson (more by FAIR)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2020)

    CounterSpin interview with Carol Anderson on voter suppression.

  • | Medias Cancel Culture Debate Obscures Direct Threats to First Amendment | MR Online

    Media’s ‘cancel culture’ debate obscures direct threats to first amendment

    Originally published: FAIR on August 1, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    A short and rather vaguely worded open letter published in Harper’s Magazine(7/7/20) earlier this month caused an unlikely media storm that continues to rumble on.

  • | Marjorie Cohn | MR Online

    ‘Trump’s troops are breaking the law and creating chaos’

    Originally published: FAIR on July 30, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Janine Jackson interviewed legal scholar Marjorie Cohn about secret police in Portland for the July 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

  • | In Russian Bounty Story Evidence Free Claims From Nameless Spies Became Fact Overnight | MR Online

    In ‘Russian Bounty’ story, evidence-free claims from nameless spies became fact overnight

    Originally published: FAIR on July 3, 2020 (more by FAIR)  |

    Based upon a bombshell New York Times report (6/26/20), virtually the entire media landscape has been engulfed in the allegations that Russia is paying Taliban fighters bounties to kill U.S. soldiers.

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