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Media Celebrate International Aggression Against Iran
Media Celebrate International Aggression Against Iran
Farewell to Bill Moyers, Who Showed What Public TV Could Be
FAIR Study: Sunday Talkshows Downplayed Criticism During Trump’s Second Transition
Media Did Their Best to Scare Voters Away From Zohran Mamdani
‘This Isn’t Just About Policy, It’s About What Kind of Nation We Want to Be’: CounterSpin interview with LaToya Parker on Trump budget’s racial impact
Adam Johnson on Media in War Mode
‘To Address Migration Requires a Reorientation of How the US Relates to the Global South’: CounterSpin interview with Michael Galant on sanctions and immigration
‘Their Goal Is to Equate Protests for Palestine With Support for Terrorism’: CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on freeing Mahmoud Khalil
Cuckoo for Cuomo: Ex-Governor’s Name Dominated Coverage of NYC Mayoral Race
NYT Gave Green Light to Trump’s Iran Attack by Treating It as a Question of When
‘Housing Unaffordability Is the Primary Cause of Homelessness’: CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness
Top Papers Dutifully Echo Cooked-Up Charges Against Abrego Garcia
Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
Murdoch Cheers on Candidate’s Arrest—and Authoritarianism
I Believe in Science—But Not Necessarily Science Journalism
Working Hard to Justify Israel’s Unprovoked Attack on Iran
NYT Undermines Fight Against Antisemitism by Using It as Shield for Zionism
How NYT Magazine Threw Away Journalistic Ethics on Suicide
For Media, Unruly Protesters Are Bigger Problem Than Trump’s Police State
How to Subtly Undermine a Promising Left-Wing Candidate
Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness
When Media Tell Us Who ‘Won’ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions
‘The Families Wanted Boeing to Face Real Accountability’:CounterSpin interview with Katya Schwenk on Boeing deal
‘Trump and Musk Are Attacking the Ability of Government to Protect Ordinary People’: CounterSpin interview with Jeff Hauser on DOGE after Musk
The Hidden Story: Israeli ‘Aid’ Is Part of Genocide Plan
Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal
NYT Goes Silent on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Voyage
Activists Await NYT Podcast on Trans Care With Justifiable Dread
‘Dangerous Times Demand Dangerous Music’: CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest
Syrian Bloodbaths: From Nefarious to Benign
Once Again, NYT Coverage of Anti-Trans Attacks Leaves Out Trans Voices
‘Work Requirements Have Produced the Same Results Over and Over Again’: CounterSpin interview with Bryce Covert on work requirements
Tom Morello on Music as Protest
‘The HHS Report Was Put Out to Give Cover to Oppose Transgender Healthcare’: CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’
NYT Assumed Antisemitism in DC Embassy Attack
An ‘Objective’ Press Won’t Alert You to Threats to Democracy
‘I’m Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media’: CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade
Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’
NYT Publisher Decries Assault on Press, But Ignores Journalism’s Worst Enemy
How NYT Reports on Weaponized Famine So You Don’t Have to Give a Damn
‘This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light’: CounterSpin interview with Ashley Nunes on public land selloff
With Friends in Media, Brazil’s Coffee Workers Don’t Need Enemies
Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade
‘Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump’CounterSpin interview with Bartlett Naylor on Trump crypto grift
One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That’s Usually Blamed
Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff
‘Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe’: CounterSpin interview with Danaka Katovich on attacks on activists
Jumping to Blame Renewables for Iberian Outage
Taibbi Cites Government Attacks on Media to Defend Government Attacks on Media
Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe
Do Mob Wars Help Crime Victims?: Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles
Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists
‘The Fact That She Had That Miscarriage Was Enough to Justify Arresting Her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
‘There’s Never Been a More Blatant Corporate Incursion Into the Public Sector Than DOGE’: CounterSpin interview with Jeff Hauser on DOGE infiltration
Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar
As Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to Blame It for Famine
‘Yemen Has Been a Place the US Has Seen Fit to Bomb With Little Public Discussion’: CounterSpin interview with Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen distortions
Cuts to PBS, NPR Part of Authoritarian Playbook
Jeff Hauser on DOGE, Karen Thompson on ‘Fetal Personhood’
Politico Plays With Polling to Manufacture ‘Trump-Resistance Fatigue’
Pope Francis Obits Omit Focus on Palestine
Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker
Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions
Fox News Can’t Admit Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters
Failing to Rise to the Constitutional Crisis
‘They’re Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals’: CounterSpin interview with Dara Lind on criminalizing immigrants
Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel’s Murder of Paramedics
Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants
‘This Is an All-Out War on the First Amendment’: CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC
‘The Great Educator, Sadly, Is Going to Be These Viruses’: CounterSpin interview with Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and measles
NYT Covers Up for Cuomo
Corporate Media Minimize Massive Hands Off! Protests
The Resistance Will Not Be Televised
Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and Measles, Jessica González on Trump’s FCC
The Real Scandal of Yemen Bombing Is Not That They Used the Wrong App
‘Momentum Is on the Side of the People Protesting on Behalf of Palestine’: CounterSpin interview with Michael Arria on Gaza pushback
With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools
Tufts Grad Student Targeted by DHS Wrote Suspiciously Pro-Humanity Op-Ed
Michael Arria on Gaza Pushback
Publisher’s Firing Shows Double Standard in Israel/Palestine Cartooning
Robert W. McChesney, a Scholar/Activist Who Fought for Media Democracy
Israel Kills Palestinian Journalist Hossam Shabat as US Media Look Away
‘A Small Group of People Wanted to Do Away With Social Security From the Beginning’: CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks
Sanitizing Resumption of Genocide as ‘Pressure on Hamas’
Elite Media Paved Way for Trump’s Targeting of Columbia
‘Anti-Disability Rhetoric and Policy Lies at the Heart of the Second Trump Administration’: CounterSpin interview with David Perry on MAGA and disability
Decades of Media Myths Made Social Security Vulnerable to Political Attack
Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks
Leading Papers Give Two Cheers for DOGE
In Return to ‘War on Terror’ Propaganda, Murdoch Cheers Suppression of Protest
David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA
Did Left Journalists Buy Into Right-Wing Ideology–or Were They Bought?
‘These Strikes Are a Good Example of Why We Shouldn’t Just Succumb to Despair’CounterSpin interview with Eric Blanc on worker-to-worker organizing
US Media’s Sorry History of Abetting Immigration Panics
Media Obscure Message of Oscar-Winning Documentary No Other Land
Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing
MSNBC Sidelines Its Most Progressive Anchors
‘If Energy Transfer Prevails, This Could Really Embolden Other Corporations’: CounterSpin interview with Kirk Herbertson on anti-environmental lawsuit
Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’