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• Cohen: Seven Pointed Questions for Corporate Media About Their Biases

  Bias is stark when journalists obsess on the estimated cost of reform while ignoring the estimated cost of the status quo
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  Flanders: Iowa is not the Twitterverse

  Given a choice between covering tit-for-tat tweets and reporting on voting rights or publicly-owned generic drugs, the brought-to-you-by-Big-Pharma news networks will always go where it’s easiest
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  Mokhiber: PBS Public Editor and the Disease of Contempt

  For too long, PBS has been afflicted by a disease of contempt for its viewers. Corporate sponsors come first. Corporate critics have been systematically filtered out of PBS news programs.
• Conley: Too Many Americans Feel Establishment Has ‘Failed Them’

  "Bernie Sanders teaches Demagoguery and Fascism 101 to a very skeptical New York Times editorial board."
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  Swanson: #CNNisTrash

  CNN, which added right-wing journalists to its panels of questioners at all four of its Republican primary debates in 2016, has adamantly refused to add progressive journalists to its panels at Democratic debates
• Corbett: ‘CNN Is Truly a Terrible Influence on This Country’

  Democratic Debate Moderators Pilloried for Centrist Talking Points and Anti-Sanders Bias
• Adler-Bell: Sanders-Warren Spat Overtakes the News Cycle

  “Infighting between Sanders and Warren only benefits big oil, fossil fuel billionaires, the GOP, and the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.”
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  Grim: At the Iowa Debate, Bernie Sanders’s Most Vociferous Opponent Was CNN

  The CNN hosts jumped in, telling Sanders to stay on trade because climate change would be addressed later. “They are the same in this issue,” he fired back
• Paul: Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment

  If sanctions can be invoked by a social media network to take down certain content, what is next?
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  Fang: TV Pundits Praising Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry

  Many of the pundits who appeared on national television or were quoted in major publications to praise the president’s actions have undisclosed ties to the defense industry — the only domestic industry that stands to gain from increased violence
• Nelson: The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence

  U.S. security state agencies are “out-of-control, virtually unlimited police state factions that lie, abuse their spying and law enforcement powers, and subvert democracy and civil and political freedoms as a matter of course.”
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  Baker: Fossil Fuel Industry Has Enough Political Power to Destroy the Planet

  Charles Lane used his Washington Post column to brag about the fact that the fossil fuel industry and climate denialists have had enough political power to prevent more widespread use of electrical cars
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  Solomon: Get Ready for a Stop-Bernie Onslaught Like You’ve Never Seen

  For corporate Democrats and their profuse media allies, the approach of disparaging and minimizing Bernie Sanders in 2019 didn’t work. In 2020, the next step will be to trash him with a vast array of full-bore attacks
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  Solomon: Defending the Oligarchy Against Bernie Sanders

  The super-wealthy individuals and huge corporations that own the biggest U.S. media outlets don’t want actual democracy. It would curb their profits and their power.
• Sen: Most Americans Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

  The Washington Post downplayed the most hopeful findings of their own poll on climate action, so we highlighted those findings for them
• Kimball: Bike Ad More Newsworthy Than Pentagon Budget

  What is more newsworthy—a decision to give the Pentagon three-quarters of a trillion dollars, or an ad for an exercise bike? If you picked the Pentagon spending, you may not have a future in corporate media
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  Cho: Spreading Official Lies

  The Washing Post has a history of facilitating official spin for the war
• Mckenna: The Demonization of Jeremy Corbyn

  It is an election which truly exposes the fault lines between wealth and poverty, elite power and grassroots democracy, neoliberalism and a dying welfare state, the interests of the many, and those of the few
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  Koerner: How Global North’s Left Media Helped Pave Way for Bolivia Coup

  Progressive and alternative media in the Global North have long portrayed Bolivia’s deposed Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government as repressive, pro-capitalist and anti-environment—all in the name of “left” critique
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  Baroud: Money, Power and Turf

  Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost