After
@CDCgov
on March 15 advised the public to cancel all gatherings of more than 50 people, a senior adviser to
@JoeBiden
went on
@CNN
and claimed the CDC had deemed in-person voting safe. And not a single major media outlet reported on it.
The news that the CIA drew up plans to assassinate
@WikiLeaks
' Julian Assange apparently did not seem newsworthy to establishment outlets like the
@NYTimes
and
@WashingtonPost
.
"An investigation into
@WikiLeaks
for publishing is a grave threat to all journalists’ rights, and
@XYChelsea
is doing us all a service in fighting it."
--
@DanielEllsberg
"The
@NYTimes
recently published a list of ‘true leaders’ in the fight against
#COVID19
. They spend exactly one sentence on Asia and the rest on white leaders that mostly did worse than Iran."
@indica
"If the government can declare Assange to be a spy or a terrorist because he’s published classified documents, every investigative journalist who does the same thing is in deep trouble."
Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
There have been 13 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians since 2009, and 785 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli security forces; in other words, a child killed in the conflict is 60 times more likely to be a Palestinian child than a Jewish child.
Fighting that killed 22 Palestinians & 4 Israelis was "worst combat since the last full-blown war in 2014," says
@NYTimes
.
On 5/14/18, Israel killed 60 Palestinians in Gaza protests. Not as bad because deaths were all on one side?
When you look into the sources attacking
@BernieSanders
whom the
@NYTimes
' Sydney Ember blandly describes as "Democratic strategists," "center-left" analysts and the like, they often turn out to be professional representatives of corporate America.
A recent poll shows 86% of Venezuelans oppose military intervention, while 81% disagree with current US sanctions. Nevertheless, it appears US media have decided that “the people” want regime change.
@AlanRMacLeod
"Elon Musk's rhetoric about 'free speech' is willfully dishonest. In fact, he is purging anti-fascist accounts at the same time that he reinstates neo-Nazis."
In media- and politicalspeak, “stability” often simply means “under US control.” Therefore, by definition, the US cannot destabilize another government or region; only foreign actors can do such a thing.
--
@AlanRMacLeod
Establishment journalists don't hate
@BernieSanders
"because their corporate masters tell them to. They hate him because he is a walking, breathing, sometimes yelling reproof of the sacrifices they have had to make to succeed in their chosen profession."
Weeks after the US invaded Afghanistan, the chairman of CNN sent out a memo to his staff advising international correspondents to downplay Afghan civilian casualties. The memo stated that it “seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.”
"Mainstream journalists wanting to appear serious about public policy rip into progressives for the costs of their proposals, but never ask self-styled 'moderates' how they plan to cope with the costs of doing nothing or doing too little."
@RBReich
You hear a lot about Sen. Joe Manchin's pivotal role in the climate debate, but you don't hear much about the half million a year Manchin makes selling coal to power plants.
On a per capita basis, the US’s handling of the coronavirus has been more than 600 times worse than China’s.
But still, the
@NYTimes
has some ideas on how China could do better!
A video of a Bronx man being beaten and arrested for talking back to the NYPD did not spark media outrage the way cops being squirted with water did.
@Josmar_Trujillo
In a piece on "Russia...steadily expanding its military influence across Africa,
@NYTimes
claims "US military has a relatively light footprint across Africa."
Military bases in Africa:
US: 34
Russian: 0
"White nationalist ideology isn’t some benign expression of The Working Man—it is, itself, a major barrier to cross-racial working-class solidarity. This is why billionaires like Murdoch & multi-millionaire corporate media brands like Carlson promote it."
Israeli forces cannot “fire back” at people who aren’t firing at them;
@AP
's headline rests on the absurd assumption that burning tires is the same as shooting people.
"The moment I irritated defenders of Israel on social media, I was summarily fired from my job as a newspaper columnist."
@NathanJRobinson
on being dumped by
@GuardianUS
after a sarcastic tweet about US military aid to Israel.
In
@NYTOpinion
&
@PostOpinions
, in a total of 172 op-eds, only two organizers were afforded a platform—meaning that just 1% of the columns in the wake of these society-altering protests were written by the people who instigated the protests.
@CNN
@BernieSanders
The
@NYTimes
, another outlet with a record of trashing
#BernieSanders
, made sure to get the far-fetched, poorly sourced "quote" into the headline, with no hint of Sanders' on-the-record categorical denial.
Long before his disastrous testimony warning the UN about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction,
#ColinPowell
had a record of deception in service of the US military state--as Robert Parry documented in 1996.
"There are 3612 accounts that participated in
#BoliviaNoHayGolpe
and have between zero and one follower. And the most scandalous thing is there are 4492 accounts that were created between yesterday and today to participate in the HT."
When lying has been adopted as a key political strategy by many on the political right, coverage of “both sides” that doesn't plainly separate facts from fiction actively undermines democratic discourse, and the informed citizenry on which it depends.
Lula's historic victory, which beat his previous best first-round performance by 10 million votes, is even more astounding given that he has suffered character assassination in the national & international media on a near daily basis for 9 years.
.
@WashingtonPost
columnist
@MarcThiessen
says
#JulianAssange
is clearly not a journalist because “Assange did not give the US government an opportunity to review the classified information” before he published it.
After the publication of this post, a Bloomberg Law story covering the Walgreens wage theft settlement was pointed out to us, bringing the total number of wage theft stories to 1, giving a ratio of wage theft to shoplifting bicyclist stories of 1:309.
After Terry Gross claimed Russia was "a Communist country," and then
@NPR
said what she "meant to say" was that Putin was "head of the KGB during the Communist era," the transcript finally has a correction that doesn't itself need correcting:
When philosophy professor Nicholas Sturgeon died, his obituary called on friends to honor his memory by "rescuing our democracy from fascism." But opposing fascism didn't meet
@NYTimes
' "acceptability standards."
The
@DailyTelegraph
used to describe
#Ukraine
's
#AzovBattalion
as "the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists." Eight years later, they're "Ukrainian special forces" giving "combat training for civilians."
@JMcEvoy_2
Debate moderators asked 21 times how candidates would pay for things like Medicare for All, fighting climate change or free college. Never once did they ask how they planned to pay for US wars.
@SarahLazare
in
@InTheseTimesMag
“Any entity involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline risks US sanctions"
@USStateDepartm2
" “If Russia invades, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 Will. Not. Move. Forward.”
@UnderSecStateP
Nuland
"If Russia invades…we will bring an end to it.”
@JoeBiden
According to the
@NYTimes
, looting is OK if stores sell "wildly overpriced items" most people can't buy.
(Offer valid only in Cuba and other Official Enemy states.)
@FrancesRobles