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• Grossman: Right-Wing Media Joined Trump in Enabling Health Disaster

  Conservative pundits encouraged their audiences to join Trump in his denial in the face of a health disaster
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  Dimaggio: The Dangers of Depoliticization and Social Media

  Misinformation and the Coronavirus
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  Cook: Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus – of us

  There is a kind of tragic karma to the fact that so many major countries – meaning major economies – are today run by the very men least equipped ideologically, emotionally and spiritually to deal with the virus
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  Emersberger: Media Struggle to Defend Washington’s Cruelty

  U.S sanctions toward Venezuela and Iran continue as Coronavirus Spreads
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  Naureckas: To Defeat Coronavirus, Media Need to Look at Real-World Examples, Not Play ‘Simulitis’

  It’s hard to escape the impression that “flattening the curve” has been offered as a solution because any strategy that aimed at actually stopping the spread of the virus would necessarily have a ruinous economic impact
• Pastreich: The Global Media and COVID-19

  The media has helped spread panic more often than useful information
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  Hochschild: When “Fake News” Was Banned

  An America Trump Might Have Loved
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  Greenwald: Bolsonaro’s Son Confirmed Father’s Positive Coronavirus Test, Then Lied About It

  The question of Bolsonaro’s health remains shrouded in mystery. And that mystery is now fueled by his son inadvertently starting a war with a news outlet they trained their followers to worship: Fox News
• Garrett: COVID-19: Information Must Drive Global and National Responses to the Epidemic.

  The spread of COVID-19 is aided and abetted by misinformation that circumnavigates the planet in microseconds. The only defense against panic is agile, accurate, available counter-information that conveys a consistently science-driven narrative
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  Emersberger: WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup

  At this point, the OAS report on Bolivia’s election should be discarded, except for the purpose of a credible investigation into how such appalling work ever came to be done
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  Glass: Free Julian Assange

  By depriving the WikiLeaks founder of his freedom, US and Britain prosecutors are intimidating journalists—and abetting torturers, war criminals, and kleptocrats everywhere
• Cohen: Does the Democratic Establishment Really Fear That Bernie CAN Win in November?

  Phillips says the changing electorate (even from 2016 to 2020) and the particular way that Sanders won the popular vote in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada augur well for Sanders as the candidate who best matches up against Trump
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  Hasan: Everything We Were Told About Bernie Sanders Was Wrong

  Can we agree, in the wake of primary contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and now Nevada, that everything we were told about Sen. Bernie Sanders was wrong?
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  Street: The “Liberal” Media’s Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders

  Do not be surprised if the Russia angle becomes a master narrative in coming weeks
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  Cole: The Fall of France to the Nazis? Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats’ Bernie Derangement Syndrome

  Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats’ Bernie Derangement Syndrome
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  Bacevich: How “Historic” Are We?

  Or Going Off-Script in the Age of Trump
• MacLeod: Cop-Hating Vandals or Pro-Democracy Activists?

  Depends whose police are being protested
• Konicz: Bernie Sanders in Las Vegas

  This fear of the election victory of the left-wing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, which many prominent politicians and media representatives in the United States have long since openly articulated, is now taking on strange characteristics
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  Solomon: The Escalating Class War Against Bernie Sanders

  With very few exceptions, the loudest voices to be heard from mass media are coming from individuals with wealth far above the financial vicinity of average Americans
• Cohen: When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as “Former,” CNN Is Lying To You

  A warning to news consumers: When CNN or NPR or PBS introduces a guest only as a “former” official, you are being lied to more often than not