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Pointing out how Trump’s actions harm people, including his own supporters, is good. But pointing out harms without discussing the autocratic way they were inflicted risks suggesting that unconstitutional actions are acceptable as long as their results are beneficial. fair.org/home/coverin...

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Corporate media choose language that obscures agency and undermines accountability when crimes are committed by favored governments, against populations they don’t care much about. fair.org/home/gregory...

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While corporate media occasionally outright call for expelling Palestinians from their land, more often the way these outlets support ethnic cleansing is by declining to call it ethnic cleansing. fair.org/home/media-a...

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Although critics have long argued that the ADL’s politicized definition of antisemitism and flawed statistics cannot be the basis of effective policy, policymakers continue to rely on media’s deceptive journalism. fair.org/home/adls-st...

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Did WaPo kill @ourcommoncause.bsky.social & @splcactionfund.org ad b/c “we’re critical of what’s happening with Elon Musk?” asks @virginiaksolomon.bsky.social. “Is it only OK to run things in the Post now that won’t anger the president?” From me @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/the-wor...

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From a business perspective—the only perspective that really matters to Jeff Bezos—pissing the temperamental Elon Musk off at a moment when he commands unprecedented power in the public and private spheres is a bad idea. So Bezos is being careful not to—as is his paper. fair.org/home/the-wor...

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The capitulation of Apple and Google on "Gulf of America" validates a widespread fear that it isn’t just Elon Musk who is doing Trump’s dirty work to undo democracy, but that the Big Tech community generally has lined up to stay in the good graces of executive power fair.org/home/whats-i...

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If you rely on reporting from nominally neutral outlets like @apnews.com, you might imagine that "popping open the hood" of democratic processes to "tinker" with them only a concern of partisan Democrats. fair.org/home/ap-desc...

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A billionaire president hands the reins over to a billionaire Nazi saluter, while the billionaire Washington Post owner sidles up next to both. My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/wapo-pr...

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Profiling Jonathan Mitchell without mentioning the Comstock Act is like profiling Ted Kaczynski without mentioning mail bombing. How. Why. What are we even doing here ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The Washington Post is famed for opposing a prior Republican president with an expansive view of executive power. These days the paper’s higher-ups are careful not to offend the president or Musk, and even call on the Constitution-defying billionaire duo to push further. fair.org/home/wapo-pr...

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The released Israeli and Palestinian prisoners were emaciated for the same reason: because Israel had deliberately deprived them of food. fair.org/home/coverag...

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What is so scary about acknowledging the circumstances, & responses to those circumstances, of Black people in these United States—our experience, challenges, accomplishments? Is it that history connects the past with the present in ways that are powerful & inspiring? fair.org/home/luke-ch...

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Pathetic, #NYTimes. Many only read the headlines. You should say, "Eric Adams fulfills his deal with Trump. He avoids prosecution for corruption by collaborating in ICE efforts to hunt down undocumented migrants." @protecttruth.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

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Do people in #USA no longer want single-payer, universal healthcare? Or did corporate media, in support of the Republicans & Democrats, just bury the issue in half-truths? fair.org/home/deny-de... via @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

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Leading news outlets left readers hard-pressed to learn any details of Medicare for All, or other meaningful alternatives to the #healthcare status quo. fair.org/home/deny-de...

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Bret Stephens lamented that economic sanctions “didn’t work.” But the unilateral coercive measures were quite effective in gutting Venezuela’s economy, killing at least tens of thousands, and spurring the migrant exodus he uses to justify his proposed military adventure. fair.org/home/nyt-adv...

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Ezra Young on trans rights law: "With some local hospitals in New York and elsewhere essentially trying to comply in advance, in the hope to appease Trump if one day he does have the power to do what he says he's doing, that's absolutely wrongheaded." fair.org/home/theres-...

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It is just a reality that gender does not always match biological sex. It makes no more sense to say that a transwoman's gender is "really" male than it would to say that George Takei is "really" attracted to women.

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COLLINS: “AP says you banned them because they won’t call it ‘Gulf of America’ — does this mean Trump will retaliate against reporters who don’t use language you want them to, and how does this align with your first amendment commitment?” Beyond parody. Also, chilling.

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CounterSpin's interview with Anne Sosin on RFK and public health: "We’ve seen...an increasing DIYification of public health, a loss of the recognition that public health means all of us. Public health is the things that we do together to advance our collective health." fair.org/home/we-need...

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If Elon Musk could get a Nobel Peace Prize for selling electric cars, shouldn't it instead go to BYD's Wang Chuanfu, who sells twice as many? www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-st...

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On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

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Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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Kash #Patel owns between $1 million and $5 million in stock in a shady Chinese company accused of using forced labor. Appropriate for the future #FBI director? Why is the U.S. media downplaying this scandal? @froomkin.bsky.social @protecttruth.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

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Why haven't you been covering this? @CNN, @nbcnews.com, @cbsnews.com @foxnewscorporation.bsky.social, @msnbc.com ?????

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New from me:

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It's somewhat obvious when you think about it, but in a consumption driven economy, removing a large chunk of consumers is going to crater demand, and shrink the economy, leading to pain for everyone. This is before you even consider the cruelty of it all.

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The details about the potentially disastrous economic effects of mass deportations are likely known by only a small minority of the population. If corporate media outlets took their job seriously, they could help turn the tides against extremist immigration policies. fair.org/home/media-f...

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New York Magazine calling Bill Kristol's media company "resistance media" reveals so much about the political leanings of the MSM

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Trump executive orders define sex as biological, bar transition-related healthcare & target trans people in the military, in prison & women’s sports. It’s evident what Trump wants to do, but is it legal? Even if such moves are not legal, what impact might they have? fair.org/home/ezra-yo...

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Western outlets haven’t just failed to consistently convey the full extent of the carnage in Gaza to their readers, they’ve actively downplayed it. fair.org/home/countin...

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@fairmediawatch.bsky.social rightly calling this what it is: A coup, and naming the major media @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com as accessories to a coup.

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"As Constitutional Crises Mount, US Press Sleepwalks Into Autocracy" -- an extremely dangerous dynamic, spotlighted by FAIR @fairmediawatch.bsky.social . . . as #musk gains evermore fascistic power.

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As an unaccountable oligarch seizes control of our national payments system, the New York Times reassures us that the idea behind this is "bipartisan." fair.org/home/as-cons...

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Tell the New York Times and Washington Post to treat Musk’s actions like the existential threat to democracy that they are. fair.org/home/as-cons...

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CounterSpin interview with David Kass: "Somebody like Elon Musk, who gave more than $250 million to Donald Trump.... He's buying access, because he has lots of government contracts, and this protects his interests, at the expense of everyday Americans." fair.org/home/weve-se...

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in a different world, this would be a massive scandal all by itself, but somehow it's only like the 20th most alarming thing just from today www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

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35 million views--clearly Elon Musk made a good investment in turning Twitter into a propaganda delivery vehicle! (Note that 40,000 likes out of 35 million views means that more than 0.1% of those exposed to Soon-Shiong's toadying approved of it.) bsky.app/profile/eric...

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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

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Why is Trump a "populist," according to NPR? He “made a show of working a shift at a McDonald’s last fall.” And he “popularize[d] a fringe theory about then-President Obama being foreign born." That's pretty much it! fair.org/home/with-ze...

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An NPR senior editor declares: “We may only be at the beginning of an era in which certain political figures can serve what are plausibly called populist causes by calling on the resources of the ultra-rich.” Huge, if true! fair.org/home/with-ze...

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"The Democratic Party has really failed to offer any countervision to the Republicans.... In fact, Harris ran a campaign where she was positioning herself as more hardline than Trump on immigration, & that opened up space for us to be in this place." fair.org/home/because...

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Last year, 150 billionaire families put some $1.9 billion in the coffers of presidential and congressional candidates--with the ten biggest contributors providing almost half of that total. fair.org/counterspin/...

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