Covering the Impact of Climate Change—Without Mentioning Climate Change
Despite leading their shows with severe weather headlines, nightly news shows on NBC, ABC and CBS on June 23 failed to mention climate even in passing.
Seth Stern on Criminalizing Dissent
Do you disagree with anything that the Trump administration is doing? Do you think you should use your voice to say something? Well, you might be a terrorist!
John Stockwell, CIA Dissident Who Helped Inspire FAIR
Few people have had as much impact as John Stockwell on FAIR and our determination to bring to light the underreported realities of US foreign policy.
Press Sees Mamdani as ‘Kingmaker’ Because They Don’t See Voters as Rational
The barely concealed subtext is that voters didn’t choose candidates because they liked their platforms; they’re just mindlessly following their new overlord.
Media Won’t Stop Psychologizing Long Covid
Media outlets that trumpet their journalistic integrity have used their prestige to launder an unproven, anti-science conspiracy theory about Long Covid.
‘We Have to Say What AI Can Do, Who’s Responsible When It Messes Up’: CounterSpin interview with Dean Baker on the AI bubble
"These are all based on future bets that are, at best, very, very shaky, if not altogether absurd. But in the present, it gives them enormous power."
The Contradiction at the Heart of Media Responses to the Trump/Iran Memo
Iran is at once a behemoth that threatens the Middle East and United States, and yet somehow also so weak that the US can and should dictate how it operates.
How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?
Caution in reporting is valuable, but when it’s mainly deployed to protect the inflicters of state violence, you have to ask if it’s really a principle at all.
Dean Baker on the AI Bubble
Is there an AI bubble? How would we know? A new project engages questions, not just about price-to-earnings ratios, but about the predictable impacts.
‘We’ve Been Seeing Immigrant Journalists on the Front Lines of This Story’: CounterSpin interview with Vanessa Maria Graber on Delaney Hall protests
"To provide the critical information that's necessary to keep people safe, organizers and citizen journalists have assumed the role of journalists."
NYT’s Advocate of ‘White Grievance’ Now Looks to Black Voters to Save Democrats From Socialism
The New York Times portrays proponents of socialism as "white elites," while actual white elites dress up the defense of their wealth in blackface.