WSJ Ran 10 Op-Eds in One Week to Try to Take Down Mamdani
To discourage New Yorkers from voting for Zohran Mamdani, the Wall Street Journal published ten op-eds in a single week casting him in a negative light.
NYT Condemned for Clarifying Starving Palestinian Child’s ‘Preexisting Health Condition’
"If a publication ran an editors' note to 'clarify' that some portion of Nazi death camp victims had preexisting conditions, it would rightfully be accused of Holocaust denialism," said one…
America’s Opinion Pages Overwhelmingly Supported Trump’s Attack on Iran
56% of Americans opposed Trump’s bombing. Why wasn’t this reflected in the range of opinions presented by America’s top press outlets?
NYT Obscured Worst Harms of Trump’s Budget
Conor Smyth is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied history and political science.
‘New York Times’ Mamdani Smear Shows How out of Touch the Paper Is With Progressives, Especially on Palestine
The New York Times's shocking race-science investigation into Zohran Mamdani shows the paper will stop at nothing to upend the progressive star. It is a clear sign of how the…
Working Hard to Justify Israel’s Unprovoked Attack on Iran
Israel’s special relationship with the US means it gets special coverage in the US corporate media, presenting its assault on Iran as fundamentally justified.
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
Patrick Lawrence and Chris Hedges chronicle the decline of mainstream media and the craft of journalism, and the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful.
Catherine Liu: the Psychology of Liberalism | Doomscroll
My returning guest is Catherine Liu @CLiuAnon a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of "Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial…
Jonathan Cook: Israel’s Claim That ‘Hamas Is Stealing Aid’ Is Patently a Lie. Here’s Why
Western journalists – having promoted Israel’s lies for more than a year and half – have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide.
Patrick Lawrence: Waves Upon the Sea of Silence
Those who purport to lead and speak for the Western world — parliamentarians, senior foreign policy people, various corporate media — seem to be breaking their disgraceful silence 18 months…
NYT Covers Up for Cuomo
While some local papers have been scathing in their coverage of the ex-governor, the New York Times seems to be largely buying what Cuomo’s selling.
Why Did Jeffrey Goldberg Leave the ‘Bomb Yemen’ Signal Chat?
With momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was apparently summoned to move the neocon message. And he wound up with more access than…
The Dehumanization and Infantilization of Palestinians (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd)
Mohammed el-Kurd analyzes the dehumanization and infantilization of Palestinians by Western activists and media, and the psychological toll it has on its subjects.
Jonathan Cook: New BBC Documentary ‘The Road to 7th October’ is an Utter Travesty
Pressured into removing a humanising portrait of Gaza’s children, the BBC offers instead a series on Israel-Palestine that frantically revives the very narrative that made the genocide possible
Media Obscure Message of Oscar-Winning Documentary ‘No Other Land’
In reporting on its historic Oscar win, many publications avoided describing No Other Land in detail, or relied on the passive voice to obscure its specifics.