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The US government and its allies are effectively using the platform to silence dissenting opinion, both at home and on the world stage, controlling what Facebook‘s 2 billion users see and do not see.
If one takes a minimalist approach to free speech, centering on the First Amendment guarantee not to be jailed or otherwise harmed by the state for expressing one’s views, then it’s clear that Bannon’s disinvitation doesn’t violate such a right.
“Kavanaugh almost always deferred to the president on executive power…. Kavanaugh has a record of dangerous deference to the president.”
The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party received a flurry of negative coverage by corporate media that focused on progressives’ supposed inability to defeat Democratic incumbents in primary elections.
That so many corporate media outlets can uniformly whitewash a right-wing war hawk with links to fascists as a “human rights champion” and “defender of democracy” is a testament to just how beholden corporate media are to US government interests.
“…the sad truth is that there are jurisdictions around the country that have made it more difficult for people to vote at each and every stage of that process.”
The Washington Post ran three articles between Sunday, June 24, and Monday, June 25, calling for “civility” and criticizing those who interfered with the dining experiences of Trump administration officials.
It is a premise that data collection goes on in order to convict us of a crime that has not yet happened, that we haven’t committed. And we need to turn that whole structure on its head, which is to say that data needs to serve a public safety purpose, or there is no reason to collect it.
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored.
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Bourdain’s death should be a wake-up call to people from documentary filmmakers to independent media outfits wanting to use the internet in creative ways: There’s a hunger among regular people in the US for the unvarnished realities of the rest of the world, and major media are serving up precious little to feed it.
What counts as “far left” to the Washington Post, the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest human?
As Israel killed scored and wounded thousands of Palestinians protesting in Gaza, considerable space in US coverage of the massacres was devoted to blaming Palestinians for their own slaughter.
A survey by FAIR (4/18/18) of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria.
“…these worst-case projections, unfortunately, keep being upgraded every time more and more reports, like the one we’re discussing today, are being released.”
A New York Times op-ed argued that conservatives make better partners for liberals than progressives, because “one can debate how much to conserve.”
But when a journalist sets out—“guided by one main question”—to understand the roots of devastating violence in a particular city, and fails so utterly to take the overwhelming role of Washington intervention into account, the complete erasure of quite recent, utterly relevant events is startling.
None of the ideas described in a New York Times feature as “That Which Cannot Be Said” are remotely taboo; they’re the kind of things that are said routinely in outlets like the New York Times.
When the “War on Terror” was launched in 2001, corporate media—especially cable TV news—started a narrow parade of hawkish retired military and intelligence brass, who promoted war as the response to the crime of 9/11, identified which foreign enemies to attack and confidently predicted success. We can look back at this parade and laugh at […]
News outlets have performed torturous linguistic contortions to avoid stating the simple fact that Israel is shooting hundreds of demonstrators with live ammunition, killing 30 and injuring close to 2,000. An Associated Press headline (4/6/18) said, “Palestinian Protesters Burn Tires, Sending Smoke Billowing at Gaza/Israel Border; Israeli Troops Fire Back Sporadically.” That’s a logical impossibility: […]
