Breaking News from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting:
- As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
- US Media Downplay Overseas Coronavirus Lessons to Focus on Easter Bunny
Ardern’s Easter Bunny comments got the kind of widespread coverage that has largely been absent for an important piece of the pandemic puzzle: What can nations that are at the center of the second wav… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- NYT Writes Post-Mortems for a Sanders Campaign It Did Its Best to Kill
Election Focus 2020: With only about half the states having cast their votes in the Democratic primaries, the Covid-19 pandemic has frozen the majority of campaign activity, but the New York Times has… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- To Stop Bernie Sanders, WaPo Willing to Risk Americans’ Lives
Election Focus 2020: Seeing its chance to thwart Sanders’ second bid for the presidency, the Washington Post risked voters’ health by staying silent about the dangers of in-person voting, even encoura… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- ‘These Devices Making the Super-Wealthy Super-Wealthier Will Have to Come Apart’ – CounterSpin interview with David Cay Johnston on the 2008 bailout
"We now have 28 years of experience with Reaganism. The average income of the bottom 90% of Americans is today what it was back in 1980, when you adjust for inflation, and the incomes of the top… (Click on article title to continue reading)
Breaking News from the Center for Media and Democracy:
Breaking News from Columbia Journalism Review:
- Silence of the climate watchdogs
An absent dog does not bark, says an African proverb. The US press has hardly been absent during the coronavirus outbreak; many outlets have run stories about little else. But the focus on the virus h… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- What’s the point of the White House press secretary?
On Friday, Jonathan Swan and Alayna Treene reported, for Axios, that Mark Meadows—the hardline former North Carolina Congressman who just took over as President Trump’s chief of staff—was planning to… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- The Ecofascists
Last November, Tucker Carlson invited Justin Haskins, the editorial director of the Heartland Institute, to discuss climate change on his popular talk show. The Heartland Institute is a climate-denial… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- What We’re Reading
Karlotta Freier illustrates all manner of climatic horror from recent news stories
- Year of Fear, Chapter Nine: Imagine This: The Ghost of a Weekly Covers the Pandemic
Welcome back to the Year of Fear. Each week until Election Day, CJR and the Delacorte Review will bring you another chapter from one of our four towns. Click here to subscribe to our weekly newsletter… (Click on article title to continue reading)
