The mainstream media treats shelling out trillions on the military like it’s a simple iPhone update.
One of the most effective rhetorical tools in normalizing massive military budgets is to treat spending billions — and sometimes trillions — of dollars as something one has to do in order to be “modern.” “Modernization” is, after all, an attractive label. Who doesn’t want to be modern? Consider just a few examples from recent reporting on
Ed Rogers continues to embarrass the Washington Post.
What is the point of Ed Rogers, the Washington Post’s most conflict-ridden, mediocre columnist (FAIR.org, 4/23/15)? He doesn’t add a lot to the discourse, his boilerplate Republican talking points could be better
The ‘T’ word is glaringly absent from mainstream media coverage of white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In exploring how “America lost its mind,” The Atlantic let everyone in corporate media off the hook, saving most of the ire for obscure hippies, rednecks and postmodern academics.
Which “conspiracy theories” the media decide to care about and which they don’t is largely a function of who is advancing those conspiracy theories, and whose interests they serve. The Atlantic published a 12,000-word cover story by Kurt Andersen on
On the broader media culture of anecdotes in lieu of the macro, moralizing “success” rather than questioning systemic problems.
You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college, a man with unmatched moxie
With Amazon’s stock surging to well over $1,000 a share, and its head recently crowned the richest person in the world, the stakes for putting Amazon and Bezos in a critical light couldn’t be higher
The three most prominent US newspapers haven’t run a critical investigative piece on Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon in almost two years, a FAIR survey finds. A review of 190 articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Bezos-owned Washington Post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly uncritical–ofttimes
If one had to sum up McCain’s political career, you could do worse than “aggressive wars”—seeing as how there’s never been one McCain didn’t promote with “verve and tirelessness.”
In a fawning editorial Saturday, pillar of the national security establishment Washington Post fell over itself to commend a
