Tag: mainstream media

The national press is a no show.

This is an example of how big money can interact with the decline in local journalism to spread false or misleading information, including about the climate crisis and appropriate solutions.

When it comes to continuing the war rather than negotiating a peace settlement, “the United States and Britain are pretty isolated on this.”

The decision to prioritize our own comfort and convenience by looking away might feel easier, but it comes at a terrible cost.

“What we found suggests that people need to hear the same accurate messages about climate change again and again. If they only hear it once, it recedes very quickly.”

The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”

A new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.

In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as U.S. support for the Maidan coup in 2014.

One of the “most consistent criticisms of the political press from the left these days is that it treats politics and policy as ‘normal’ when the United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of democracy.”

The majority of Americans at that time, and even now, never dared to question what our government and embedded media shoveled at them.