Media Criticism

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FAIR

Trump’s Idling Plane Got More TV Coverage Than Biden Cutting…

States are now set to begin dropping people from Medicaid rolls--but if you were watching TV news, you might have missed it.
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Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy

There's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."
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‘Bizarre Decisions From Facebook Call Into Question Moderation…

"Facebook will tout the ability of its content-moderation systems to pick this stuff up. And we just bypass it so easily."
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‘The Major Insurers Saw 2020 as a Giant Opportunity for Profiteering’

"Media failed to cover the figures that were there in plain sight, showing a massive increase in insurance companies overhead and…
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TV Reports on Manchin and Sinema Leave Out Their Financial Conflicts

TV news almost completely ignored the financial conflicts that reinforce Sinema and Manchin's reluctance to vote for the…
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Why Jake Tapper Never Asks How We Pay for War

High-profile media brands like Jake Tapper simply do not view the expense of empire maintenance to be subject to critical…
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‘The Media Are an Arena for Struggle’

"If you’re progressive...you have to be active around the problem of corporate media bias, corporate media censorship, exclusion,…
FAIR

Jeff Bezos’ Fake News in the Newspaper He Really Owns

Jeff Bezos' fake news in a Washington Post ad about Amazon's corporate benevolence is designed to deflect from troubling…
FAIR

‘Independent, Culturally Relevant, Trusted Local Sources Are the Way’

"We've seen the impact of consolidation, as it's already progressed, on squashing diverse voices."
FAIR

Corporate Media Deny Their Own Existence, Despite Driving Biden’s…

Anyone who dares to suggest media corporations have their own commercial interests are kooky conspiracy theorists.
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Attitudes About the News Media Deeply Divided Along…

Roughly nine-in-ten Democrats say news media criticism keeps leaders in line (sometimes called the news media’s “watchdog role”),…
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