The people who are most enthusiastically behind Trump have real problems with real consequences; they’re not likely to forget about them because Ted Cruz had a better get-out-the-vote operation in Iowa.
Feb 2 2016
Even Praising His Political Skills, Washington Post Still Side-Eyes Sanders
Even in a piece that charts Sanders’ success in galvanizing new voters, political reporter Karen Tumulty still manages to side-eye the candidate with the observation that “Republicans are not the only voters looking for qualities beyond experience and electability.”
Feb 1 2016
‘Single Payer Saves Money by Saying No to the Insurance Industry’
CounterSpin interview with Steffie Woolhandler on media attacks on single payer
“We’re paying for national health insurance and we’re just not getting it…. We’re already paying more per capita than the total cost of healthcare, public and private, for any other nation on the earth.”
Jan 31 2016
Where Did the Years Go? NYT Dismisses Experience of ‘Fringe’ Candidates
The dichotomy the New York Times draws between the “experienced” and “proven” candidates and presumably inexperienced, unproven outsiders doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Jan 31 2016
Reporting on Panamanian Truth Commission, Al Jazeera Cites FAIR’s 1990 Work
Writing in Al Jazeera about Panama’s establishment of a truth commission to investigate the consequences of the 1989-90 US invasion of that country, Belén Fernández cites FAIR’s 1990 critique of invasion coverage.
Jan 31 2016
CNN’s Double-Dealing in Des Moines
The kind of question CNN’s Christopher Cuomo asked Bernie Sanders at CNN’s Iowa town meeting were quite different from the kind Cuomo asked Hillary Clinton.
Jan 30 2016
Media Attacking Single-Payer Are Getting Paid Under Current Health System
By Adam Johnson
Many of the outlets pushing back on single payer are owned by large media corporations with sizable investments in private healthcare and its current neoliberal iteration, the Affordable Care Act. They have not just a political and ideological incentive to maintain private healthcare, but a tremendous financial one as well.
Jan 29 2016
In Coverage of Planned Parenthood Smear, Partisan Conflict Crowds Out Reproductive Rights
From the New York Times, you get that the indictment of videomakers who made a deceptive video attacking Planned Parenthood might hurt Ted Cruz, What you don’t get is a sense that a woman’s control over her own child-bearing is at stake.
