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Media Literacy Guide: How to Detect Bias in News Media

Media have tremendous power in shaping political and cultural narratives—telling us what and who matters, why things are as they are and wha

An actually useful media literacy guide

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Greenwald’s Bombshell Brazil Scoops Have Curious Blindspot for US Involvement

The lack of analysis of US involvement in Lava Jato is especially surprising because Greenwald has long been a critic of US foreign policy.

I think there is still room for debate about the intentions behind US involvement in Lava Jato—a Brazilian “anti-corruption” investigation that, as Greenwald shows, pursued aims consistent with the history of US policy towards Latin America that Securing Democracy outlines. However, I see no justification for the complete omission of US involvement in a book that is largely about the politics of Lava Jato, and that draws on the sources from which we know much of what we do about the US role. Whatever Greenwald’s position is here, it deserves clarification, and the failure to examine the US role in Lava Jato is a significant flaw in an important book.

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Media’s In-House Critics to Reporters: Quit Quoting Palestinians About Civilian Deaths

Articles that chided media for being credulous toward Gazan authorities themselves failed to critically examine the claims they relied on.

Of course, a government that is the main supplier of weaponry to another government accused of committing a war crime is not an objective analyst; the US exoneration of Israel (which was also a self-exoneration) should not have been treated as particularly compelling evidence, let alone a definitive judgment.

3 November 2023

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What Did Samantha Power Say About Iraq Invasion?

The New York Times says that UN Ambassador-nominee Samantha Power "criticized the American invasion of Iraq because it lacked the council's

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How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths 

A review of Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible By Bryce Greene/ Fair.org/ August 1, 2023 Brown University’s Costs of War project released a study this year estimating that US-led wars since 9/11 have contributed directly and indirectly to 4.5 million deaths in the targeted countries. Those countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria—have also seen an estimated 40–60…

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Sanders, Trump Both Surged—Only One Fascinated Media

So why did news outlets think voters needed to hear about Trump about three times as often as they heard about Sanders?

October 1, 2015

All the cable news channels talked about Trump more often than Sanders—even MSNBC, which often caters to a progressive audience. MSNBC did come closest to parity of any outlet we looked at, however, with 69 percent as many Sanders as Trump stories.

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Rachel Maddow’s Iran Misinformation

The facts on Iran's nuclear power program should be clear by now--but as coverage by the New York Times and MSNBC demonstrates, evidently th

June 13, 2013

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