Unmoored for commercial reasons from any hard and fast standards for what constitutes a fact, media factologists are free to follow their own political whims (or those of their outlets). Which seems to be what’s going on in a recent Washington Post factchecking effort by Glenn Kessler, “Bernie Sanders’ Claim That ‘36,000 People Will Die Yearly’ if Obamacare Is Repealed.”
Jan 20 2017
Trump’s Inauguration and the Legitimacy Fetish
Why is it so important to corporate media commentators that presidential legitimacy not be questioned? By and large, they are part of and identify with an establishment whose fragility is all too evident.
Jan 20 2017
‘What Communities Are Doing Is Making Homelessness Less Visible’
CounterSpin interview with Megan Hustings on Food-Sharing
“Homelessness is a large problem, but we’re not going to solve it by saying, you can’t be homeless here.”