Thursday, February 13, 2025

Tag: mainstream media

Support oppositional press—not media owned by Fascist collaborators

In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.

Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for...

The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.

Rupert Murdoch loses his legal battle, leaving future of media empire...

The New York Times revealed details of the recent secret hearing in a Nevada probate court that was literally prompted by the epic HBO drama Succession.

NPR’s ‘balance’ serves to normalize Trump’s highly abnormal cabinet picks

They must be confirmed by the Senate, which means the media play an important role in helping bring to light their records and qualifications.

Why the media’s ‘sanewashing’ of Trump is uniquely dangerous

In their attempts to normalize an obviously abnormal candidate, major media outlets risk shirking their responsibility to do the most fundamental job of the free press at their own peril: To tell the truth.

How corporate news has tried to numb Americans to the horrors...

The process has become so routine that we might not recognize how omission and distortion have constantly shaped views of events since the war began in October.

Beltway Media has gone from a defender of democracy to an...

A robust political press should be trusted to both accurately report the facts and hold politicians from both sides to the same standard.

When Israel burned refugees alive, establishment media called it a ‘tragic...

As the world watched on social media and responded in outrage, US corporate media, once again, provided cover for the perpetrators of Israel’s genocide.

As peace protests are violently suppressed, CNN paints them as hate...

Some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid.

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Judge orders health agencies to restore medical webpages removed by Trump administration

A federal court ruling forces the CDC, FDA, and HHS to reinstate vital public health resources that were taken down under Trump’s executive order targeting gender-related medical information.

Shadow government: How Trump’s executive order hands Musk control of the US government

An investigation into how a new executive order has enabled an unelected billionaire to oversee federal hiring, dismantle public agencies, and consolidate unchecked power over American democracy.

Support oppositional press—not media owned by Fascist collaborators

In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.

America’s nuclear gamble: The dangerous push to resume atmospheric testing

Experts warn of catastrophic fallout as calls grow to restart nuclear weapons tests abandoned since 1963.

In stunningly bright colors

Can art offer us a vision of our world, for the better or sometimes distinctly the worse, that brings it into a kind of cohesion we often don’t experience in our actual lives?