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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.
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@scottsantens @AndrewYang . @CNN , if you're going to post polling results for 6 candidates, why list the top 5 and then someone who's in an 8-way tie for 7th place? #AndrewYang
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It’s Media—Not Bernie Sanders—That Have an Antisemitism Problem
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NYT Acknowledges Coup in Bolivia—While Shirking Blame for Its Supporting Role
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Media Leave Yang Out of Candidate Conversations
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@RealSaavedra @AndrewYang According to @RealClearNews ' average of polling, @AndrewYang is tied for 8th place in the Democratic race--yet he's not one of the 20 candidates included in @MSNBC 's candidate graphic.
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Our Poor, Defenseless Military Industrial Complex
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"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
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3 years
Why corporate media found a few hundred dollars stolen on a bicycle more interesting than millions of dollars stolen from paychecks.
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"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."
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The FBI reported a 17-fold increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes following 9/11.
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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/
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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.
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ACTION ALERT: It’s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen
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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?
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This is absolutely a violation of the First Amendment and incompatible with the idea of democratic government.
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Misreporting Manafort: A Case Study in Journalistic Malpractice
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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.
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Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya -
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Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’
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Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda -
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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
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Climate Minimizers Don't Deny Climate Change—but Find Endless Reasons to Reject Sanders' Plan to Stop It
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"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."
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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
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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."
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Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
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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.”
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Unpacking Media Propaganda About Bolivia's Election
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Five Top Papers Run 18 Opinion Pieces Praising Syria Strikes--Zero Are Critical -
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WaPo Uses Photo of John McCain Next to Nazi to Praise His 'Human Rights' Work
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Media Struggle to Defend Washington’s Cruelty Toward Venezuela and Iran as Coronavirus Spreads
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"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
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Maybe Rich Liberals Don’t Hate Sanders Because They Fear He Can’t Win, But Because They’re Rich
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The Bolivian Coup Is Not a Coup—Because US Wanted It to Happen
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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.
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Strong piece from @TheIntercept 's @GGreenwald on corporate media's faith-based journalism on Trump/Russia ties:
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A Mass Murderer Becomes a 'Terrorist'--Based on Ethnicity, Not Evidence -
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Media Still Refuse to Report the Real News: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election
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3 years
Yet another victim of the Iraq War.
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3 years
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!
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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
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As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There
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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
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"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."
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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.
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Assange Case Shows Support for Free Speech Depends on Who’s Talking
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How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He's Winning
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After Trump’s Jerusalem Move, Media Worry About ‘Violence’--Not Violation of International Law - ...
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With DNC Leaks, Former 'Conspiracy Theory' Is Now True––and No Big Deal -
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Meet the Press Grills WikiLeaks on Source, Ignores Substance of DNC Emails -
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ACTION ALERT: NYT Claims US Opposed Honduran Coup It Actually Supported -
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"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.
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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.
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#JoeBiden has supported cuts to #SocialSecurity for 40 years. So why are media suggesting that #BernieSanders is lying when he points out that record?
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@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.
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Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea
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Slapping an Israeli Soldier More Newsworthy Than Shooting a Palestinian Child in the Face
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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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.
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MSNBC’s Big Names Completely Ignore West Virginia Teachers Strike
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. @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.
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On August 5, 1964, the US government lied its way into a devastating war.
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Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as ‘Confederate Flag Incident’ -
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Happy 88th birthday to Noam Chomsky, whose work inspires what we do here at FAIR.
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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.
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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:
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Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt
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Top 16 Euphemisms US Headline Writers Used for Police Beating the Shit Out of People
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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."
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Venezuela-Baiting: How Media Keep Anti-Imperialist Dissent in Check
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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
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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
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“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
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Happy 92nd birthday to Malcolm X.
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Ignoring Washington's Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior -
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When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left
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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
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Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims
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