Tag: mainstream media

This is especially important as “herd immunity” has become a popular stalking horse among certain right-wingers seeking to argue that infecting broad swathes of the population is the best way to return the world — and the world economy — to normal.

While the Sunday shows have always leaned heavily on politicians, other public officials, and their surrogates, this skew is more pronounced than FAIR has found in the past.

Taking a look at the pandemic through a different kind of lens—here's a serious point the mainstream media has overlooked for the most part.

Corporate media distortions and bombast are priming the American public to see China as a treacherous villain that has to be forcefully confronted, perhaps with violence.

It’s not a law of microbiology that requires that we allow the coronavirus to infect hundreds of millions of people, but a choice made by governments.

The media has helped spread panic more often than useful information.

With Biden’s victory in South Carolina, media doubts about his strength were quickly banished.

But a deeper look at media coverage suggests that media’s concern with money in politics rarely extends beyond the catchy headline.

Corporate media are doing their best to smear the progressive candidate that threatens their own business interests.

And that is a complete misunderstanding of the actual sociology of America.