The militarists, corporatists, oligarchs, politicians, academics and media conglomerates champion identity politics and diversity because it does nothing to address the systemic injustices or the scourge of permanent war that plague the U.S. It is an advertising gimmick, a brand, used to mask mounting social inequality and imperial folly.
Secrecy, Surveillance and Censorship The information age is actually a media age. We have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media – a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions. By JOHN PILGER Counterpunch Weekend Edition, Dec. 5-7, 2014 Why has so much journalism succumbed More
George Will & Theoretical Liberal Media Bias By Peter Hart March 18, 2013 FAIR.org During a typically right-leaning roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week (3/17/13), George Will said this about the big Conservative Political Action Conference: First, here's the New York Times headline on the CPAC conference: "GOP Divisions Fester at Conservative Retreat." Festering an infected wound, it's awful. I guarantee, if there More
George Will & Theoretical Liberal Media Bias By Peter Hart March 18, 2013 FAIR.org During a typically right-leaning roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week (3/17/13), George Will said this about the big Conservative Political Action Conference: First, here's the New York Times headline on the CPAC conference: "GOP Divisions Fester at Conservative Retreat." Festering an infected wound, it's awful. I guarantee, if there More
Why the “Liberal” Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged The New York Times’ foreign affairs coverage belies its “liberal” reputation–but reinforces the class biases of its readers. By Gregory Harms | TruthOut.org / February 5, 2012 A recent article by foreign policy analyst Robert Naiman, examines The New York Times’ current coverage of Iran’s nuclear program. In it, he exposes a More
