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‘They Needed Atrocity Propaganda to Justify Mass Slaughter of Palestinians’ CounterSpin interview with Adam Johnson on How to Sell a Genocide
“The New York Times used ‘massacre’ 124 times. They used ‘slaughter’ 53 times. They used neither words to describe the killing of Palestinians.”
When Trump Threatens to Overturn an Election, NYT Suggests He Might Have a Point
New York Times editors had to have known that its investigation would be a gift to an administration that maintains that Democratic wins are not legitimate.
Brian Mier on Brazilian Election
You can smell what US corporate press are cooking with the New York Times headline that the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was “a blow to Brazil’s right.”
Metro Times Defends the Truth in an Era of Lies
Establishment corporate media have to have the courage to say that the Earth is round, the sky is blue and the Earth rotates around the Sun.
‘Experimenting on People on the Night of Their Execution Can’t Be Right’: CounterSpin interviews with Dahlia Lithwick (2014) and Liliana Segura (2020) on the death penalty
“We used to hang people in the town square. It used to be that it wasn’t meant to be clinical. It was meant to be a gruesome public spectacle.”
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FAIR Studies
Western Media Accept Trump’s Plundering of Venezuelan Oil as Business as Usual
Objections to the new Venezuelan oil plan were mostly procedural and out of concern for appearances, not driven by any principled opposition to US predation.
Remembering 9/11—But Not the Victims of the US Response
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, leading US papers largely ignored the vast numbers of people killed in the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Whose Voices Are Centered in Coverage of Cuban Crisis? A FAIR Study
The New York Times, Miami Herald and Associated Press each covered the Cuban crisis extensively, but the coverage varied dramatically across outlets.
Climate Coverage Plunges, Though Crisis More Dire Than Ever
The scientific consensus that we need to phase out fossil fuels fast has not changed, but coverage about climate change in US news outlets has plunged.
A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.
