It almost sounds like the newspaper owned by the second-wealthiest person in the world doesn’t want people talking about how much the extremely rich own compared to the rest of us.
October 2017
Ignoring the Fantasies That Kill Real People…Here’s What Forgetting History Looks Like…Disclosure: I Get Paid to Fool WaPo Readers About Climate…Freebooter Turns Freelancer…And by ‘Dethroning,’ We Mean One-10th as Popular…Trump’s Problem Is That New York Doesn’t Understand Media…Questions That Don’t Require Asking
The “alt-left” rhetorical gambit—deliberately equating leftists with the “alt-right,” itself a euphemism for internet-savvy racism—was popularized by centrist pundits and Democratic Party apparatchiks attempting to stigmatize challengers to the center-left establishment.
October 2017
As Hurricane Harvey wreaked devastating flooding across southeast Texas, there was relatively little focus on a group that is especially susceptible to natural disasters: the poor.
September 2017
Making the Case for an ‘Affluent Left’ by Ignoring Evidence…
Democrats Are Back! And by ‘Back,’ We Mean ‘Screwed’…
Four Years Later, a Baseless Iran Smear Is (Sort of) Retracted…
USA Today’s Korea Sources Have Something to Sell You…
You Don’t Have to Work for Bezos to Boost Amazon
Heartwarming tales of perseverance in the face of impossible odds are ideological agitprop meant to obscure and decontextualize the harsh reality of dog-eat-dog capitalism.
September 2017
September 2017
July 2017
President Trump’s Plans for Planet Not of Interest to Major Media…Covering Trump’s Nominees Through GOP Eyes…To Simplify Factchecking, NYT Inserts Its Own Errors…USA Today Sees Bright Side of Massive Loss of Health Insurance
Since Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest in a landslide victory in 2015, he has faced an incessant slew of attacks from the neoliberal Blairite wing of his own party—and from the corporate media that so frequently echo it.
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