How NYT’s Bad Reporting Helped Justify Trump’s Tariffs on Brazil — FAIR
The arguments presented in the New York Times have bolstered Trump's justification for imposing tariffs on Brazilian goods.| FAIR
Even when outlets addressed the consequences of food deprivation, reporting still fell short of holding Israel responsible for deliberately inducing starvation.| FAIR
The Miami Herald's exposé of a Cuban state enterprise appears to be based on a willful misreading of a financial document.| 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
Newsom seems to think that all he needs is one splashy issue he can fight Trump on--and a little help from his corporate friends, donors and media outlets.| FAIR
Washington Post editors have been slapping misleading headlines on Post reporters' invaluable coverage of the military occupation of DC.| FAIR
Western governments have long chosen to normalize the state-sanctioned murder of journalists. But journalists don’t have to.| FAIR
"We have not reconciled the history of... how government regulation was just reinforcing the racial apartheid that exists in our country."| FAIR
Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.| 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
"Heightened Scrutiny examines the relationship between the media’s coverage of trans rights and the anti-trans legislation we have seen balloon."| FAIR
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.| 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
We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.| CounterSpin
News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.| CounterSpin
Trump’s “Big Lie” attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.| CounterSpin
Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.| CounterSpin
A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.| CounterSpin
The more a strike affects the economy, i.e., the more effective it is, the harder corporate media try to smear workers as selfish and destructive.| CounterSpin
Why are events we pay insurance for a "crisis" for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.| CounterSpin
Musk’s Twitter is keeping certain information out of the public view—information that just happens to damage the presidential ticket he supports.| CounterSpin
As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.| CounterSpin
Jen Senko’s film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.| CounterSpin
Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they’re going to say is, “oh well”?| CounterSpin
A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.| CounterSpin
Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.| CounterSpin
More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.| CounterSpin
How do we acknowledge the fact that many people’s opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?| CounterSpin
The crickets you’re hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That’s all intentional.| CounterSpin
Does the company that "corners the market" do so because people simply prefer what they sell? The anti-monopoly ruling against Google challenges that idea of how things work.| CounterSpin
The right wing has gotten much more overt about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy, as demonstrated by its latest weaponized trope—the “DEI hire.”| CounterSpin
If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, "You'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."| CounterSpin
Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.| CounterSpin
At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on "record heat"—because "heat" will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.| CounterSpin
Algorithms create an environment where organizations enact rules for workers’ behavior, reward and sanction them based on that, but never allow workers to see these accountancies.| CounterSpin
The cynical maneuvers of Medicare Advantage don’t lead to good health outcomes, but they serve the real goal: netting private insurers more money.| CounterSpin
This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very […]| CounterSpin
Will elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?| CounterSpin
It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.| CounterSpin
Some courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say.| CounterSpin
The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.| CounterSpin
The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.| CounterSpin
US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.| CounterSpin
Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.| CounterSpin
Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.| CounterSpin
The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.| CounterSpin
What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.| CounterSpin
Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.| CounterSpin
A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.| CounterSpin
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.| CounterSpin
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.| CounterSpin
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.| CounterSpin
If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.| CounterSpin
As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.| CounterSpin
Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”| CounterSpin
The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.| CounterSpin
