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• Mier: Media Blackout on Brazil’s Anti-Bolsonaro Protests

  Why are New York Times and Guardian downplaying resistance to Brazil’s far-right president?
• Draitser: “Bernie is Trump” (and other Corporate Media Bullsh*t)

  A dead-end street with a lemonade stand Where is the...
• Hollar: Here’s the Evidence of WaPo Bias Against Sanders

  Those inclined to pursue those establishment-friendly stories rise up in the ranks, while most of those with more critical perspectives eventually move on. So, no, they don’t need Bezos to tell them what to do—their worldview is neatly aligned with his already
• Hasan: Five Lies About Iran

  Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal
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  Solomon: Why Bernie Sanders Is Correct About the Washington Post

  And Corporate Media Overall
• Timm: Brazil Supreme Court Minister Rules to Protect Press Freedom

  Brazil’s Supreme Court has barred the Bolsonaro administration and Justice Minister Sergio Moro from investigating The Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald for its reporting on unethical and potentially illegal conduct involving Moro
• Hollar: CNN’s Industry Spin Shows Need for Independent Debates

  We desperately need serious, independently run debates, not over-the-top industry-friendly spectacles of the sort put on by CNN—and endorsed and gate-kept by the major parties
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  Swanson: Poor Wittle CNN

  The fact is that CNN is biased. Aren’t you shocked to hear that? Why do we have to constantly point it out? CNN acts on behalf of its owners, its advertisers, and those it wants access to
• Cho: Media Downplay Climate Disruption’s Role in Migration

  Corporate media downplaying the ongoing climate catastrophe’s creation of large numbers of climate refugees encourages fatal inaction
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  Solomon: There’s Nothing Moderate About “Moderates”

  A Primary Example Is Joe Biden
• Halper: MSNBC’s Anti-Sanders Bias Makes It Forget How to Do Math

  When MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah (7/21/19) said that Bernie...
• LaChance: Mother Jones Is Failing Its Namesake

  The dismal conditions are part of the cruelty, but the existence of a place to sleep in a prison certainly does not negate the evil of its condition
• MacLeod: Media Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn

  What these articles highlight so clearly is not only the grim, inhuman and unnecessary conditions so many Americans are forced to live under, but the degree to which mainstream corporate journalists have completely internalized them as unremarkable
• Hodes: Critics of Campus Activists Don’t Care About Free Speech

  They complain when students protest hateful speakers, but not when shadowy conservative groups and politicians write laws to punish our speech
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  Monbiot: Owned

  As I’ve found to my cost, the billionaire press seeks to kill change before it happens
• Pérez: Reducing Migrants’ Lives to One Grisly Photograph

  In the name of “sparking a reaction” from an indifferent public, images of migrant deaths decontextualize their reasons for fleeing and gloss over the impact of decades of prevention through deterrence policy
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  Cook: The plot to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of power

  We might finally understand that a system designed to pacify us while a few grow rich at the expense of our children’s future and our own does not have to continue. That we can raise our voices and loudly say: “No!”
• Hollar: Progressive Dems Leaving Corporate Media’s Comfort Zone

  Election Focus 2020After the first round of Democratic primary debates, the line from corporate media and their overwhelmingly centrist sources was clear: The Democrats are moving dangerously to the left, at their own peril
• Shupak: Creating a Climate for War With Iran

  Headlines are breathlessly suggesting to readers that Iranians are going to kill Americans if Americans don’t kill Iranians first
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  Street: MSDNC, Single Payer, and the Serenity Prayer

  As any sentient progressive should know, NBC and MSNBC (hereafter “MSDNC”) are media assets owned by and subservient to the United States capitalist and imperialist ruling class