As of this writing, no TV outlet included in the Nexis database has mentioned that independent journalist Amy Goodman was charged with trespassing for reporting on the pipeline protest. Nor has any national newspaper reported on North Dakota’s legal assault on newsgathering.
Sep 21 2016
Media Ask Which Candidate Can Better Exploit Our Irrational Fear of Terrorism
By Adam Johnson
Terrorism has become the hot horserace topic of the year in a way that goes beyond the silly to the potentially damaging. Something missing from these reports is any discussion of the relative danger of terrorism.
Sep 21 2016
A Cop Killed a Black Man–Then Things Got ‘Ugly’
Some might say that the turn toward ugliness occurred in the afternoon, when a police officer fatally shot a black man.
Sep 20 2016
‘You Know That It’s Not a Few Rotten Apples’
CounterSpin interview with William Black on Wells Fargo fraud
“This is not the first time this has happened. This is absolutely serial criminality from the largest, most elite financial institutions in America.”
Sep 20 2016
‘The Bodies of Prisoners Are Commodities’
CounterSpin interview with Noelle Hanrahan on prison strike
Where you oppress people and where there’s bias and behavior that’s fundamentally immoral, where there’s a lack of healthcare, where there are people dying in infirmaries in prison, you’re going to see resistance.
Sep 19 2016
The Stronger the Boycott, the Thicker the Hype
Readers of a glowing New York Times profile of the Driscoll’s berry brand would have no clue about the four years of organizing, the walkouts, picket lines and lawsuits over labor violations leading to Driscoll’s being the subject of a high-profile international boycott.
Sep 16 2016
Sing in Unison, David Brooks Tells Black Athletes
By Adam Johnson
Listen up, black kids, David Brooks is here to tell you why your choice of political activism is “counterproductive.” What’s strange is that Brooks never really bothers to explain why, exactly.
Sep 16 2016
Noelle Hanrahan on National Prison Strike, William Black on Wells Fargo Fraud
By CounterSpin
You wouldn’t know it from corporate press, but what may have been the largest prison labor strike in the country’s history happened September 9. This country is supposedly taking a bipartisan “fresh look” at mass incarceration; so what does elite media’s collective yawn say about their actual interest in what happens to people once they are behind bars?
