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BY Joshua Cho

NYT Presents Social Security Cuts as ‘Solution’ to Problem of Social Security Cuts

June 25, 2019

BY Julie Hollar

WaPo Doesn’t Want Voters to Know Medicare for All Will Cut Their Health Costs

June 25, 2019

BY Joshua Cho

Iran ‘Violates’ Nuclear Deal, After US ‘Withdraws’

June 21, 2019

BY CounterSpin

Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal

June 21, 2019

BY Janine Jackson

‘Governments and Corporations Were Figuring Out a Way to Behave With Impunity When It Comes to Oil’

June 20, 2019

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NYT Presents Social Security Cuts as ‘Solution’ to Problem of Social Security Cuts

The New York Times report failed to inform readers on the remarkable injustice of cutting Social Security benefits, in view of where the funding gap came from.

WaPo Doesn’t Want Voters to Know Medicare for All Will Cut Their Health Costs

The Washington Post tries to spin the healthcare issues into a false competition between access and cost.

Collage of headlines on Iran leaving nuclear deal

Iran ‘Violates’ Nuclear Deal, After US ‘Withdraws’

Reading corporate media’s inversion of reality, it’s hard to escape the impression that while Iran betrays its international agreements, the US just leaves them behind.

Eleicao Sem Lula E Fraude

Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal

The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro—all while being celebrated in the US corporate press—was actually, as critics contended, less interested in corruption than in keeping Lula’s Workers Party out of power.

Sandy Cioffi (image: PBS)

‘Governments and Corporations Were Figuring Out a Way to Behave With Impunity When It Comes to Oil’

“It’s an actual strategy among oil companies…that if you can fearmonger enough, you can get a public that says, ‘Fine, even though the safety measures are not in place, we’ll drill 10 miles in the ocean if you don’t go to foreign oil.’”

Noam Chomsky (cc photo: Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina)

Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview With Noam Chomsky

Chomsky discusses the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria.

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FAIR’s weekly radio show is hosted by Janine Jackson. CounterSpin is heard on more than 150 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. The current show and a back archive of shows and transcripts are available online.

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Washington Post depiction of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announcing the Green New Deal (photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News)

Establishment Media and the Green New Deal: New Wine in Old Bottles

While the resolution was a radical departure from politics as usual, most corporate media filtered coverage of the “Green New Deal” through the lens of conventional expectations.

New York Times cartoon featuring Nicolas Maduro

Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela

A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period, zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took an anti–regime change or pro-Maduro/Chavista position.

Which Candidates Are Mentioned Most Often on TV News?

Democratic hopefuls’ TV news mentions track fairly closely with the candidates’ positions in the polls.

Freedom House's map of "Freedom in the World"

Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’

The “dictator” label is also a powerful cue, used by media to prime the reader to see a particular country or leader a certain way.

New York Times depiction of Gaza's Great Return March

‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims

Why should only these groups—Muslim 95 percent of the time—“renounce violence,” but the US and its allies never have to?