NYT Worries Big Brother Is Not Watching You
A New York Times op-ed demonizes freedom from corporate and government surveillance as a dangerous plot by unnamed “technologists.”
Dorothee Benz
Media Fail to Raise Alarm Over Deadly Lack of Booster Shots in Elderly
There’s been hardly any mention in corporate media of the lagging booster rate among older USians, and even less analysis.
Trump’s Asylum Ban Hasn’t Disappeared—but Media Outrage Over It Has
In place of 2020’s concern over “shelved safeguards,” the Washington Post justifies a policy that two years ago was viewed as extreme.
Gerrymandering: Making Elections Safe From Democracy
What if voters have a preference for something other than single-party districts? This problem isn’t even on the radar.
Blaming the Victims—Not the System—for Bronx Fire Deaths
As media covered a devastating fire in the Bronx, two culprits were somehow off the list: the landlord and the city’s housing department.
Power Analysis Failure
The way the New York Times covered the Texas energy crisis obscured rather than illuminated its causes.
You Can’t Fight White Supremacy With White Supremacy
The default reflex among corporate media, in step with the dominant US narrative, is to see cops and soldiers as good guys, and their presence as benign and reassuring.
Media’s Messaging Debate Eclipses Policies—and the Crises They Address
In coverage of Democratic positions on healthcare and climate change, the overwhelming emphasis was on electoral strategy, and not on the problems these policy proposals were designed to solve.
How Not to Interview a Toddler
Whatever happens on and after November 3, one thing seems pretty clear: We can count on 60 Minutes to cover it in a way that props up the status quo.
As US Teeters on Authoritarianism, WaPo Pushes ‘Both Sides’ Fantasies
In the extensive genre of corporate media obfuscation about right-wing paramilitary violence, a WaPo piece stands out even amidst some tough competition.
Democracy Dies in Obfuscation
In the extensive genre of corporate media obfuscation about right-wing paramilitary violence, a WaPo piece stands out even amidst some tough competition.
Defining Steve Bannon Downward
The effort to legitimize power, in this case by pretending a leading white supremacist was less central to the regime than he was, is pretty much the New York Times’ North Star.
NYT’s Obit Doesn’t Understand Why Larry Kramer Is the Icon We Need Now
The New York Times has it exactly backwards: Kramer’s confrontational approach didn’t “overshadow his achievements,” they are what made his achievements possible.
Lives or Profits? For Corporate Media, It’s a Tough Question
Given the blasé response to the market’s inability to deliver life-saving equipment to those who need it, because it’s not “sufficiently profitable,” it is perhaps not surprising that the view that profits are more important than lives has been treated as a reasonable opinion by corporate media.
As Covid-19 Forces Emission Reductions, Media Offer Oil Industry Elegies
If you’re looking for corporate media to celebrate the good news of the drop in demand for oil, you will be disappointed. Heck, you won’t even find an acknowledgement of the tradeoffs of oil demand and planetary health in last week’s breathless coverage of the unprecedented market collapse.
When the Invisible Hand Gives You the Finger
Given the blasé response to the market’s inability to deliver life-saving equipment to those who need it, because it’s not “sufficiently profitable,” it is perhaps not surprising that the view that profits are more important than lives has been treated as a reasonable opinion by corporate media.
Witness to a Farce
Throughout the impeachment process, the New York Times has underplayed the danger to democracy, both of Trump’s obstruction of the process and the brazen resolve by Republicans to absolve him no matter what.
NYT on Impeachment: How Not to Cover the Death of Democracy
The New York Times’ voluminous coverage of the impeachment hearings detailed many of the pieces that make up the overall strategy, but the vast majority of it boiled down to the predictable formula of covering the whole process like a partisan horserace
Talking Turkey About Impeachment Hearings
Rather than explore the full extent of the Trumpist lurch towards authoritarianism, much of which is palpable and documentable but not necessarily “provable” in the way the Ukrainian extortion scheme is, the New York Times has gone all in on the obsession with the smoking gun.
