Media
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Media: WaPo Fails to Note Raytheon, Saudi Funding of Advocate for Raytheon Arms to Saudis
In a piece for the Just Security blog (6/5/17) about the impact of weapons industry contributions on a Saudi arms vote, Ryan Goodman notes that “money also pollutes other policy spaces that influence congressional votes”—including the news media Continue reading
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In a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump About Climate Change
President Donald Trump’s disastrous withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Change Accord understandably has the media in a frenzy. “Unconscionable and fatuous,” proclaimed The Economist (6/1/17). Trump “shamefully abandons the fight against humanity’s greatest threat,” wrote Bloomberg News (6/1/17). But when given the opportunity over the past four months of his presidency to… Continue reading
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After US Bombs Syrian Government for Third Time in 8 Months, Media Ask Few Questions
The United States has bombed Syrian government–allied forces three times in just eight months. Major media outlets have overwhelmingly failed to ask critical questions about these incidents, preferring instead to echo the Pentagon. Continue reading
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WaPo’s Laziest Columnist Calls Protesters ‘Fascists,’ Equates Them to Manchester Bomber
Cohen is also a long-time defender of child rapist Roman Polanski, a downplayer of workplace harassment and, himself, the subject of accusation of unwanted sexual advances. The irony, of course, is that Cohen is the perfect embodiment of the same white privilege he routinely downplays: a long, documented history of being wrong and gross and… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: A Corrupted View of Reality in the Western Media
26 May 2017 — Global Research Below is a selection of recent articles which bring to the forefront the process of media disinformation which supports a corrupt and criminal political agenda. In the words of award winning investigative reporter Robert Parry (see article below): “The mainstream U.S. media is congratulating itself on its courageous defiance of President Trump… Continue reading
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Elite Media Need to Recognize Assaults on Reporters as a Pattern–and a Threat
Establishment journalists failed their “first they came for the Communists…” moment at the very beginning of the Trump administration, when DC police arrested and charged at least nine alternative journalists for covering protests at Trump’s inauguration that included property damage. Continue reading
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Media: WaPo Provides Platform for Calls to Imprison WaPo Sources
Last September, the Post controversially published “No Pardon for Edward Snowden” (9/16/16), an editorial calling for prosecution of the whistleblower who helped the paper win a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. Continue reading
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Media: Arms Deal Stories Omit War Crimes Arms Will Be Used For
The Trump administration wrapped up a weapons deal with the Saudi Arabian government this week that will be worth up to $350 billion over the next ten years. News of the deal came as Trump visited Riyadh and paid fealty to one of the United States’ most enduring allies in the Middle East. The vast… Continue reading
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Media: At CNN, Imagining an Absurd Iranian/ISIS Alliance
Pro-torture legal scholar Alan Dershowitz was on CNN the other night (Anderson Cooper 360, 5/17/17) arguing that the person who told the Washington Post that Donald Trump had disclosed classified information about ISIS to Russian visitors in the Oval Office was “a felon, a criminal and should go to jail.” Continue reading
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Media to Trump: Don’t Cozy Up to Dictators–Unless They’re the Right Dictators
The New York Times (5/1/17) is critical when Trump embraces a despot not on the Approved Despots List. After a series of friendly gestures by President Donald Trump toward Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the past few months, US media have recoiled with disgust at the open embrace of governments… Continue reading
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Trumped: 13 Resets in 13 Months
The White House’s latest self-inflicted scandal—this time, the incredible allegation via multiple news reports that the president shared high-level classified intelligence with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office—isn’t just an indictment of Donald Trump’s general incompetence. It also represents another damning rebuttal to a recurring, fictional narrative that has been propagated by the press for… Continue reading
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Lockheed Martin-Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
In the past year, FAIR has noted 30 media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system or its underlying value proposition in US media, most of them in the past two months. Business Insider was the most eager venue for the think tank’s analysts, routinely copying–and–pasting CSIS talking points in stories warning of the… Continue reading
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Media: Trump Uses Power of FCC to Pay Back Friends at Sinclair Broadcasting
This morning Sinclair Broadcast Group, the conservative media behemoth that owns more local news stations than any other company in the country, just got even bigger. It announced it was buying Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, creating what Bloomberg (5/8/17) calls a “TV goliath.” Continue reading
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‘The Internet Should Be Treated as a Public Utility’
Janine Jackson: If it weren’t for an open internet, how much do you think you’d know about Black Lives Matter, or NoDAPL? If it were up to private corporations to determine which websites you can access and which you can’t—based on which ones pay them—what are the odds that you’d be able to keep up… Continue reading
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Media: Declining to Label Lies, NPR Picks Diplomacy Over Reality
NPR is notorious for bending over backwards to avoid the appearance of a liberal bias, even refusing to carry an opera program in 2011 after its host participated in an Occupy protest. But, in the age of Trump and his unprecedentedly loose relationship with reality, the network’s strict adherence to “both sides” journalism does a… Continue reading
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Media: 100 Days of Media Hoping for a New, Improved Trump
Nearly 100 days into the Trump presidency, corporate media are still struggling to reckon with the man that occupies the White House. An administration so proudly reckless in its actions and so brazenly detached from the truth has routinely overwhelmed political reporters whose accountability muscles have atrophied. And from cable news panels to newspaper op-ed… Continue reading
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David Ignatius’ 15 Years of Running Spin for Saudi Regime
Last week, in “A Young Prince Is Reimagining Saudi Arabia. Can He Make His Vision Come True?,” Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius (4/20/17) wrote what read like a press release for the Saudi regime. What’s more, he’s written the same article several times before. For almost 15 years, Ignatius has been breathlessly updating… Continue reading
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Media: At Reuters, ‘Not Refuting’ Is the Same as ‘Seeing’
“I am not refuting that”? How does that translate into “General…Sees Russia Sending Weapons to Taliban”? If NASA tells Reuters that they can’t refute speculation that there might be life on Mars, will Reuters run a story headlined “NASA Sees Life on Mars”? That would be a scoop! Continue reading
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Media: NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
Buoyed by a total of 18 speculative verb forms—five “mays,” eight “woulds” and five “coulds”—New York Times reporters David E. Sanger and William J. Broad (4/24/17) painted a dire picture of a Trump administration forced to react to the growing and impending doom of North Korea nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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At NYT, Climate Denial and Racism Don’t Make You Fringe–but Single-Payer Does
Being in the New York Times is a legitimizing event, one that cements ideas as not fringe, “other,” or in the realm of the dreaded, career-ending “conspiracy theory.” So it understandably upset many liberals when the Times decided to bestow upon hard-right Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens the ultimate stamp of… Continue reading
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