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‘Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth’: CounterSpin interview with Gene Slater, Richard Rothstein and George Lipsitz on housing and media
“Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies.”
Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding
What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
WaPo Defends Data Centers—With Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Post—owned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
A Seattle Socialist’s Victory Gives Elite Media the Jitters
Editorial boards are not afraid socialist policies will fail—they fear they will work, thus making a “tax the rich” agenda more popular nationwide.
Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela
With a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers.
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FAIR Studies
When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters
Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.
Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.
Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation
Gaza’s conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.
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 Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.
