Trump’s constituency is largely thought to believe that the media, in general, has a liberal bias. As a result, the details of Trump’s lack of transparency, for several months—in regards to his veterans’ fundraiser—ended up being used by him to manipulate the media into making him sounding caring and patriotic, while portraying the media as nitpicking and disreputable.
Jun 2 2016
NYT Calls for Stronger Copyright Protection Without Calculating the Costs
By Dean Baker
It is likely that performers will get less than 10 cents for every dollar of lost benefits to consumers, and their take may well end up being less than one cent per dollar. Unfortunately, the New York Times never mentioned these losses at all, ignoring the well-known benefits of free trade.
Jun 2 2016
The ‘Major Problem,’ According to Bernie Sanders: ‘An Establishment…Led by Corporate Media’
“The major problem is that we have an establishment that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, led by a corporate media, which tries to condition the American people not to believe that we can accomplish those goals—or to even consider that those goals can be part of what American society is about.”
Jun 1 2016
The Lazy Pundit’s Guide to Which Candidate’s Lies You Shouldn’t Care About
“Hillary’s fibs or lack of candor are all about bad judgments she made on issues that will not impact the future of either my family or my country,” says Thomas Friedman, whereas “Trump and Bernie Sanders have been getting away with some full Burger King Double Whoppers that will come crashing down on the whole country if either gets the chance to do what he says.”
Jun 1 2016
‘GMO Crops Are Tools of a Chemical Agriculture System’
CounterSpin interview with Patty Lovera on Monsanto protests
“It’s really become a company that’s synonymous with that type of agriculture, of very expensive inputs, expensive seeds, and chemicals that go with them, and corporate control of these basic building blocks of the food supply.”
May 31 2016
‘Employers Have an Incentive to Work People Long Hours’
CounterSpin interview with Ross Eisenbrey on overtime rules
“Employers tend to prefer, many of them, to hire a few people and work them longer hours. Especially if they don’t have to pay for the longer hours–that actually becomes a huge incentive.”
May 29 2016
538 Sacrifices Integrity to Go After Sanders on Independents
The 538 crew have at times gone beyond the realm of punditry into the realm of hackery—that is, not just treating their own opinions as though they were objective data, but spinning the data so that it conforms to their opinions.
May 27 2016
‘Has Our Country Gone Just Mad?’
Classic CounterSpin interview with Michael Ratner on Alberto Gonzales
“They’re worried about war crimes prosecutions, and they have to give a cover to the guys actually abusing people and torturing people. And so what they do is, the cover is, let’s just say Geneva doesn’t apply, and therefore we can’t be prosecuted criminally.”
