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Summing Up White Supremacist Ties as ‘Saying Nice Things About an Old Man’
Extra!‘s March/April 1999 cover story, by Steve Rendall, on Trent Lott’s ties to white supremacism. On Meet the Press (1/4/15), host Chuck Todd tried to provide some historical context to the...
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‘Debating’ War, Corporate Media Style
As the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has expanded control over territory in Iraq and Syria, a growing chorus of politicians and pundits are demanding the Obama administration take more forceful...
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Will NBC Retract Story NYT Has Walked Back?
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan‘s critique (4/24/14) of her paper’s handling of their Russia/Ukraine photo scoop closed with this: The Times‘ influence demands that it be cautious,...
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How Dare Hamid Karzai Take Our Money!
The news on the front page of the New York Times (4/29/13) was that Afghan President Hamid Karzai receives regular deliveries of cash from, among others, our own Central Intelligence Agency. And it...
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Where Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong
Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration’s case for going to war against Iraq. Much of what he said about Iraq’s threats to the United States was false. But the media coverage...
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‘Divided’ on Abortion Rights?
Citizen activism mostly doesn’t often get much media attention. But turn to today’s edition of USA Today (1/25/13) and you see coverage of a protest that hasn’t even happened yet. That’s a little odd;...
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This Time, Trust Anonymous WMD Claims–They’ve Got ‘Specific Intelligence’
The message could hardly be clearer: According to U.S. intelligence, Syrian government could very well be preparing to use chemical weapons to put down the long and bloody rebellion against ruler...
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Corporate Media Lose Their Favorite ‘Warrior Scholar’
There’s no doubt that the sex scandal that prompted CIA director David Petraeus’s sudden resignation late last week is a big story. New details–verified or not–seem to arrive almost by the hour. But...
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Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like
Alarmist corporate media coverage of the “threat” from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. But Clapper said very little in...
View ArticleWhat Do You Call a Guy Like Rick Perry?
Frontrunner-of-the-moment Rick Perry is getting a lot of press for his performance at the recent Republican debate–especially because he’s standing by his belief that Social Security is a “monstrous...
View ArticleRick Perry’s Jobs ‘Swagger’
On NBC Nightly News (8/16/11): ANDREA MITCHELL: Perry’s Texas swagger is his calling card, bred of a hardscrabble boyhood on the family farm and Aggie roots at Texas A&M. Perry’s chief claim to...
View ArticleDebt Ceilings and the ‘Balance’ Bias
There’s been plenty written about how reporters skew reality by treating “both sides” as equally intransigent or inflexible when it comes to the budget deficit battle. Another example, from the L.A....
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Obama’s Best Week Ever?
On yesterday’s Chris Matthews show on NBC, the assembled journalists all seem to agree that Barack Obama’s decision to cut a tax deal with Republicans and come out swinging against the left was great...
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