CBS’s Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come — FAIR
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.| FAIR
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.| FAIR
"It's necessary...for this genocide to unfold, to have the American public either ginned up for the violence, or confused about it."| FAIR
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.| FAIR
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.| FAIR
News outlets took care to balance the humanitarian activists trying to bring food to a starving population with defenders of a genocidal regime.| FAIR
There are so many conflicts of interest around Jared Kushner that it's hard to avoid covering them--yet journalists do so remarkably well.| FAIR
Those who deny the Gaza genocide are intellectually and morally equivalent to Holocaust deniers--yet the Wall Street Journal persists in running such denial.| FAIR
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.| FAIR
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.| CounterSpin
Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.| FAIR
It is surely in the interest of the public to know if their local representatives were in Israel networking with parties to what the UN has labeled a genocide.| FAIR
Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.| CounterSpin
Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people "resisting arrest." And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.| FAIR
Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?| FAIR
Face the Nation's renunciation of editing comes in the wake of other recent capitulations by CBS and Paramount to Trump administration demands.| FAIR
US corporate media have not shied away from reporting on third-country deportations, but tend to dance around the illegality of the whole matter.| FAIR
It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.| FAIR
You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.| FAIR
The arguments presented in the New York Times have bolstered Trump's justification for imposing tariffs on Brazilian goods.| FAIR
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.| CounterSpin
Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?| FAIR
Voting: Everyone gets a voice; that’s what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?| FAIR
"All of these dollars are going to a stadium, as opposed to after-school programs, as opposed to shoring up an already hurt safety net."| FAIR
Corporate media outlets from blamed Zohran Mamdani him for a horrific mass shooting that took place while he was out of the country.| FAIR
Elite news media transmit the weird worldview that it’s appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.| CounterSpin
"I think it's a success of Israel's control of the narrative that sometimes it's really not well understood that the occupation is central to all this."| CounterSpin
"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."| CounterSpin
The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.| FAIR
Many of the bill's key provisions—including Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy cuts—will be literally deadly for people in the US and abroad.| FAIR
To discourage New Yorkers from voting for Zohran Mamdani, the Wall Street Journal published ten op-eds in a single week casting him in a negative light.| FAIR
Gaza's conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.| FAIR
To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.| FAIR
The latest moves from CBS's owners mark the latest seismic shift to the right in the US media landscape.| FAIR
US corporate media outlets have refrained from delving too deeply into what exactly this massive ramping up of ICE portends for American society.| FAIR
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.| FAIR
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.| CounterSpin
US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.| CounterSpin
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.| FAIR
There’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.| CounterSpin
Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.| FAIR
Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.| CounterSpin
The feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we’re just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.| CounterSpin
The arguments advanced to justify banning coffee imports from Brazil to the US rely on outliers representing a tiny portion of the workforce, not the norm.| CounterSpin
Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.| FAIR
Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.| FAIR
The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.| FAIR
The Yemeni people are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers.| FAIR
What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?| CounterSpin
Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle.| FAIR
Pretending protest isn’t happening is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it’s telling lies about who we are and what we can do.| FAIR
All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.| FAIR
Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.| FAIR
Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.| CounterSpin
Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.| FAIR
Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.| CounterSpin
Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.| FAIR
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens made an overt case for US military intervention to topple Venezuela’s government.| FAIR
The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."| FAIR
The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.| FAIR
Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.| FAIR
How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?| CounterSpin
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”| CounterSpin
While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.| CounterSpin
When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.| CounterSpin
If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.| CounterSpin
Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.| FAIR
Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.| FAIR
This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.| FAIR
A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”| FAIR
Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?| FAIR
