Corporate media see one thing above all that anyone needs to know about the Houthis: They are simply proxies of Iran, the West’s current favorite enemy.
"It’s old-fashioned, it's knocking on doors, it's talking to our neighbors, it's going to meetings...making connections, reaching out to other human beings."
Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died in a car bombing in Washington, DC, on September 21, 1976, that illuminated the results of US actions and inactions.
The New York Times—which played a critical role in dampening skepticism of the "Global War on Terror"—rationalized the violence the US unleashed after 9/11.
"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests."
If reporters want to convince the world that they are necessary to combat the rise of authoritarianism, now is the time to abandon business as usual.
When people try to fight for something better, we get a lot of noise about how that can’t work, and you know who else wanted social change? Communists!
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which faced legal action over concern that it consolidated too much media power, is now going forward.
"We sat around as a message to the future: not to close your eyes, to keep your eyes open, and if you see something, say something and take action."
US media have covered the anniversary of US troop withdrawal by muddying the US role in the country’s hardships--as though Afghan history began in August 2021.
Unable to change the realities on the ground, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking the next-best approach by trying to change the way the war is reported.
Interrogating the role of profit-driven corporations in today’s journalism is crucial, but it’s part of questioning corporate power over our lives in general.