The @WSJ headline implies students were manipulated by outsiders
It’s disinformation. Columbia University students ACTIVELY sought advice, researched prior protests.
Better:
Before launching protest, Columbia students consulted with external groups, researched historical university responses
FROM THE STORY, 4th graph:
“We took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them and analyzed how the university responded to previous protests.”
Instead of examining the national security issues surrounding a "publicly traded president," headlines read like something straight from PR Newswire:
“Trump poised for billions...”
“Trump could score $3.5 billion…”“Trump stands to make $3.5 billion…”
“Trump is on the verge of a windfall of billions”
“Trump Is In Line for a $3.5 Million Windfall...”
How US news media fail democracy: Texas v US Border Patrol
#ShelbyPark is owned and maintained by Eagle Pass, TX. US Border Patrol has used the park to process asylum seekers.
On 11 Jan 2024, the Texas Tribune reported that the Department of Public Safety had assumed control of the park over city objections. DPS then blocked Border Patrol access.
DPS gave CBS News #Texas “access to their Shelby Park Eagle Pass operations.” Did CBS tell us ANYTHING above in that story? NO.
NOTHING in that first CBS News story mentions US Border Patrol OR that the SCOTUS was deciding THAT DAY whether Abbott had the authority to trump (verb chosen intentionally) federal law.
Nothing.
It even makes Abbott’s bussing program look legit.
“#Trump, if elected, will use the federal government to go after his political rivals and critics, even deploying the military toward that end. His allies are hatching plans to invoke the #InsurrectionAct on day one.
“The US then ‘would resemble a banana republic’,a University of Virginia law professor told the Washington Post…
“The press generally is not doing an adequate job of communicating those realities.”
These headlines are an indictment of mainstream journalism; cable “news” and the outsized attention mainstream media give it (relative to its audience size); #FOX and its rabid ecosystem; anti-democratic politicians; and a K-12 system shorn of its ability to teach critical thinking and basic #civics.
There are other flashing red signs, like the number of people who believe the earth is only a few thousand years old or that #evolution isn’t real.
It’s not our imagination. News stories frame Biden and Trump differently.
The @latimes, @nytimes, @WallStreetJournalBot, @washingtonpost have mentioned Biden’s age more than twice as often as Trump’s age since April 25th in the 378 articles that mentioned one or the other.