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FAIR, 4 months ago to geopolitics

‘It’s Important to Focus on Big Companies Using the Cover of Inflation to Jack Up Prices’

"The truth of the matter is there are vested interests for folks to want to vilify workers, to want to vilify big public investments."

https://fair.org/home/its-important-to-focus-on-big-companies-using-the-cover-of-inflation-to-jack-up-prices/

#Economy #Food #inflation

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Fears of recession, a fantasy problem, overshadowed discussion of the very real problem of inequality.

https://fair.org/home/media-that-benefit-from-inequality-prefer-to-talk-about-other-things/

FAIR, 4 months ago to geopolitics

Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things

The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.

https://fair.org/home/media-that-benefit-from-inequality-prefer-to-talk-about-other-things/

#CorporateOwnership #Economy #Inequality

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Chomsky Appears on MacNeil/Lehrer; Western Civilization Survives

For years, FAIR wondered what would happen if he were actually interviewed by Robert MacNeil. On September 11, 1990, the mystery ended.

https://fair.org/home/chomsky-appears-on-macneil-lehrer-western-civilization-survives/

#Extra1990Ed6NovemberDecember #Iraq #NewsHour #Oil

FAIR, 4 months ago to chicago

At Northwestern U, Distributing a Parody Paper Gets You Threatened With Prison

An exercise in culture jamming got two Northwestern students brought up on a charge that could have landed them in prison for a year.

https://fair.org/home/at-northwestern-u-distributing-a-parody-paper-gets-you-threatened-with-prison/

#Chicago #Education #FirstAmendment #IsraelPalestine

FAIR, 4 months ago to newyorkcity

In the Wake of Santos’ Lies, Media Double Check Records of Potential Replacements

Following the scandal of serial liar George Santos, there is a push by some media to investigate the candidates running to replace him.

https://fair.org/home/in-the-wake-of-santos-lies-media-double-check-records-of-potential-replacements/

#Election2022 #Election2024 #Factchecking #NewYorkCity

FAIR, 4 months ago to food

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation

The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.

https://fair.org/home/rakeen-mabud-on-greedflation/

#CorporatePower #Food #inflation

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Prosecutors drop charges against two students accused of wrapping a pro-Gaza parody newspaper around copies of the Daily Northwestern. The students faced a potential year in prison.

https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/parent-company-daily-northwestern-wants-drop-fake-paper-charges

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

"Imagine Rudyard Kipling after an anvil fell on his head."

--Jon Schwarz on Thomas Friedman

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/israel-palestine-journalism-nyt-thomas-friedman/

FAIR, 4 months ago to Texas

‘Texas Is Fighting for Its Right to Lay Concertina Wire’

"We will continue down this really ugly road of, how violent are we willing to get with people? That's the question we're at in 2024."

https://fair.org/home/texas-is-fighting-for-its-right-to-lay-concertina-wire/

#Immigration #JoeBiden #SupremeCourt #Texas

FAIR, 4 months ago to IsraelPalestine

ACTION ALERT: Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda

Thomas Friedman compared the targets of US bombs to vermin, the sort of metaphor historically used to justify genocide.

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-friedmans-vermin-analogies-echo-ugly-pro-genocide-propaganda/

#Genocide #Islamophobia #IsraelPalestine #Mideast

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Many US citizens see immigration as a positive good. For immigrants, of course, immigration is often a matter of life and death. But US corporate media treat more people crossing the border as a bad thing in itself--that's what a "border crisis" is.

See @jhollar:

https://fair.org/home/for-media-border-crisis-means-migrants-coming-not-migrants-dying/

FAIR, 4 months ago to Texas

Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff

What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?

https://fair.org/home/aron-thorn-on-texas-border-standoff/

#Immigration #JoeBiden #SupremeCourt #Texas

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

WaPo Owes an Apology to the DC Mayor It Drove From Office

The Washington Post sought to preempt DC voters by getting rid of Mayor Vincent Gray before he stood for reelection.

https://fair.org/home/wapo-owes-an-apology-to-the-dc-mayor-it-drove-from-office/

#Politicians #RaceRacism #WashingtonDC #WashingtonPost

FAIR, 4 months ago to IsraelPalestine

Leading Papers Skewed Gaza Debate Toward Israeli and Government Perspectives

Despite efforts to include Palestinian voices, editors at two leading papers skewed the Gaza debate toward an Israel-centered perspective.

https://fair.org/home/leading-papers-skewed-gaza-debate-toward-israeli-and-government-perspectives/

#IsraelPalestine #NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

‘We Know What Keeps Us Safe: People Need Care and Not Punishment’

"What invest/divest demands is the investing in mental health support, the investing in first responders who actually know what to do in a crisis,"

https://fair.org/home/we-know-what-keeps-us-safe-people-need-care-and-not-punishment/

#BlackLivesMatter #CrimePunishment #Police

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

‘If You Can’t Choose Your Own Leaders, Nothing Else Matters’

"The Republicans have turned their entire apparatus, not into improving people's lives, but into taking away their right to vote."

https://fair.org/home/if-you-cant-choose-your-own-leaders-nothing-else-matters/

#Elections #SupremeCourt

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

AP and the #WashingtonPost haven’t completely ignored the story—although the #NYTimes, as of this writing, has more or less looked the other way. But as the right celebrates Greg Abbott’s defiance and legal scholars worry about a constitutional crisis, the two big papers and the major wire service have clearly underplayed the standoff’s significance.

https://fair.org/home/the-real-border-crisis-texas-vs-the-constitution/

FAIR, 4 months ago to Texas

The Real Border Crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution

A Southern state invoking its “sovereignty” in defense of violent and inhumane policing of non-white people sounds eerily familiar.

https://fair.org/home/the-real-border-crisis-texas-vs-the-constitution/

#Immigration #SupremeCourt #Texas

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

If you think news media show you the world, you’ll be surprised to hear that 2023 saw killings by law enforcement up from the previous year, which was up from the year before that. More than 1,200 people were killed, roughly three people every day, including not just those shot dead, but those fatally shocked by a stun gun, beaten or restrained to death.

https://fair.org/home/monifa-bandele-on-reimagining-public-safety-svante-myrick-on-roadblocks-to-voting/

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

"Leonhardt is there to allay the concerns of a certain subscriber who pays vague attention to the news and hopes not to be forced to pay any more. There is an audience of millions for this."

https://defector.com/the-new-york-times-david-leonhardt-turns-in-a-nasty-piece-of-work

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Redirecting public resources away from punitive policing, and toward community-centered mechanisms of public safety – like housing, like healthcare – is the sort of idea that, years from now, everyone will say they always supported. Talking heads on TV will stroke their chins and recount the times when “it was believed” that police randomly harassing people of color on the street would decrease crime, and that neighborhoods would greet police as liberators.

https://fair.org/home/monifa-bandele-on-reimagining-public-safety-svante-myrick-on-roadblocks-to-voting/

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting

This week on CounterSpin: Elite media can give the impression that problems wax and wane along with their attention to them. And, not to put too fine a point on it, they’re done with police brutality.

So if you think news media show you

https://fair.org/home/monifa-bandele-on-reimagining-public-safety-svante-myrick-on-roadblocks-to-voting/

#BlackLivesMatter #Elections #Police

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

"More than 50 journalists at the New York Daily News went on a 24-hour walkout Thursday, protesting cuts to overtime and slow bargaining talks with the paper’s owner, the hedge fund Alden Global Capital."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/01/25/daily-news-reporters-walk-out/

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

The #NYTimes reports that women in the #IDF have “helped bolster the image of the [Israeli] army domestically”—even as the paper uses them for the same purpose internationally.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-engages-in-front-page-idf-womenwashing/