Earlier this month, the New York Times (10/12/24), Washington Post (10/12/24) and Wall Street Journal (10/12/24) each published front-page articles based on different sets of documents handed…
As the US-backed genocide in Gaza continues, US media assist in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuās plan to widen the war, parroting the words…
It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This…
Brown Universityās Costs of War projectĀ released a studyĀ this year estimating that US-led wars since 9/11 have contributed directly and indirectly to 4.5…
Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The…
Twitterās āstate-affiliated mediaā policy has an unwritten exemption for US government-funded and -controlled news media accounts.Ā TwitterĀ even boosts these accounts as āauthoritativeā sources…
NPR ran several stories on Afghanistan to mark the anniversary of the August 2021 US withdrawal, even sending host Steve Inskeep to the country…
Only sustained media attention to such abuses will create the conditions for ongoing calls for justice to be answered
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