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The @nytimes.com apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

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Media Reaction to a Woman Murdered at Work Is ‘Nothing to See Here’
A male coworker allegedly bludgeoning Amber Czech to death has nothing to tell us, evidently, about broader trends or influences.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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@fairmediawatch.bsky.social: The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.

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Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre
The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Readers are treated to a photo of a thoughtful-looking Hendrix, wearing a navy suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, with a caption saying “he was stunned by the intensity of the uproar and the fallout on his life.”

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NYT Covers Racism From the Point of View of the Racist
The New York Times' problem isn't that it hasn't probed deeply enough into the far-right psyche; it's that it refuses to stop normalizing it.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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At least the WaPo & NYT did run news articles quoting Trump’s racist “garbage” remarks. AP totally bowdlerizes what he said; the word “garbage” doesn’t even appear even though it’s a direct quote. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The BBC’s December 3 headline drops us in: “As Lead Changes in Knife-Edge Honduran Election, Will Trump Fail to Get His Way?” What do we lose when media report other countries’ elections through the lens of US power?

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Alex Main on Honduran Election
As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the US’s long history of violently intervening in Honduras.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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"With the US not there, they can no longer obstruct. And that means that nation states can treat the US as the pariah that it is, and get down some binding frameworks that will, in the end, when the US comes back, bind the US to...phasing out fossil fuels."

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‘COPs Are About the Public vs. Politicians and Their Corporate Interests’: CounterSpin interview with Jean Su on COP30 narratives
"It's the people, it's the citizenry of the world who are going toe to toe with the handful of politicians who are driving disastrous decisions for us."
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December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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It drives me nuts how establishment media think ignorance is strength when it comes to transgender care.

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On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center
The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."
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December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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It’s not even gone yet and they miss it alteady! My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social @ fair.org/home/nyt-mou...
NYT Mourns Lost Glamour of Jeffrey Epstein’s New York
In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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“Trump says” are two words that should be banned from serious media, just like “Israel says”. There is literally no point in reading further if you’re interested in the truth. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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For the Washington Post, lacking expertise on transgender care makes you more credible, because you're "more neutral."

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On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center
The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."
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December 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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News outlets have continued to push the idea that the WNBA is not profitable, exclusively relying on anonymous sources, without ever referencing any corroborating financial documents.

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Sports Press Covers WNBA Negotiations From Owners’ Point of View
Too many news reports have catered to owners' interests when reporting on the negotiations between the players' union and the league.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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What’s the difference between acknowledging conflicts that are driving predictable and predicted death and destruction, and using the power of information to challenge and change them?

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Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives
Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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After 300 overwhelmingly Black women, men and children were murdered in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa World ran the headline "Two Whites Dead in Race Riot"--and an editorial asserting that "any persons who seek to put half the blame on the white people are wrong."

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Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre
The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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In the New York Times’ telling, it’s not the girls on Epstein’s island but rather President Donald Trump—an Epstein associate many suspect of having participated in the alleged abuse—who is being “held captive” by a “news cycle he can’t avoid or defeat.”

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NYT Mourns Lost Glamour of Jeffrey Epstein’s New York
In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"It was once widely accepted and understood that segregation was not an accident, but it was a purposeful creation of state, federal and local government... When we think it happened by accident, we then think there is nothing we can do about it."

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‘Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth’: CounterSpin interview with Gene Slater, Richard Rothstein and George Lipsitz on housing and media
"Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies."
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November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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DC area residents are getting bilked out of billions to pay for AI data centers benefitting trillion dollar companies. Meanwhile the Post -- owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos -- has been largely MIA

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WaPo Defends Data Centers—With Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Post—owned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
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November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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We’re hearing that SNAP and food benefits are being reinstated, now that the government is “open” again. But that doesn’t convey the situation properly.

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Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding
What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
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November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The @washingtonpost.com tells us not to worry about Amazon's hundreds of energy-gobbling data centers--except they don't usually tell us that they're Amazon's.

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WaPo Defends Data Centers—With Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Post—owned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
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November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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This report on the alleged complicity of #JPMorganChase in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking does not go far enough. Why does senior official Mary #Erdoes, whose alleged involvement has been cited, still have a job at the bank? @fairmediawatch.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
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November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The New York Times gave Katie Wilson’s win tepid coverage, offering an unexciting news piece that failed to address the significance of ousting a powerful incumbent. It also, bizarrely, quoted that defeated incumbent—and never quoted the actual winner of the race.

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A Seattle Socialist’s Victory Gives Elite Media the Jitters
New York City isn’t the only city to have elected a democratic socialist as mayor. Seattle voters ousted incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell for community organizer Katie Wilson, who had the endorsements of...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Corporate media are repeating the problems of the run-up to the Iraq War by uncritically amplifying spurious justifications for military assault against Venezuela.

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Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela
With a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM