Tag: Mainstream

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Mainstream media coverage of Israel’s assassination campaign misleads the U.S. public

[The New York Times’s Ronen] Bergman, whose ties to Israeli intelligence are an open secret, could scarcely hide his glee at the successful assassination.

The New York Times and others are nowhere explaining the context, history, and possible motivations behind these assassinations. Among them that Benjamin Netanyahu may have ordered the attacks for his own selfish political reasons and to put off his trial for corruption — even though other media don’t hesitate to make that connection, including a leading newspaper in Israel itself.

What’s more, most U.S. coverage frames Israel’s killings as heroic actions of self-defense, instead of the truth — that the assassinations are violations of international law and an enormous threat to global security.

Mainstream media coverage of Israel’s assassination campaign misleads the U.S. public

Media Analysis

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Mainstream Media Is Spreading Lies About Palestine Protests

Rather than acting as a check on the powerful, media outlets like CNN and MSNBC are allowing police to give their interpretation of student Palestine protests with few challenges, even in cases where police are blatantly lying or distorting the truth.

Source: Mainstream Media Is Spreading Lies About Palestine Protests

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New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Skew Pro-Israel

Activists Protest Israel's War In Gaza At New York's Grand Central Terminal

A quantitative analysis shows major newspapers skewed their coverage toward Israeli narratives in the first six weeks of the assault on Gaza.

Source: New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Skew Pro-Israel

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Mainstream media helping to spread Voice ‘No’ campaign lies

Should we be surprised that mainstream media are searching for payola, the cash flow as influencers and not informers yet able to label their product as “news”? That Cash flow comes from a diverse but very specific minority holding the concentration of money in our market whose interests don’t even align with their audience. Why did The Age and SMH spend their time tarnishing John Farnham with “fake news” while polishing “Poor Alan Joyce’s brilliant career “? They had Michael Dwyer deflect the criticism directed at Lisa Visentin who started the suggestion Farnham hadn’t gifted his rights to his song. While whitewashing any negative facts directed at QUANTAS’s Alan Joyce. Poor Alan was being “forced out” of his job not that he was “running for cover”

Much of the Voice Referendum ‘No’ campaign is based on lies and misinformation, spread by a complicit mainstream media, writes Col Jennings.

Source: Mainstream media helping to spread Voice ‘No’ campaign lies

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Beating Keating and losing – Pearls and Irritations

Laura Tingle and Paul Keating - National Press Club

That’s it exactly, isn’t it? Keating’s big crime was to be “far removed from the political mainstream”, and in so complaining, the editor of the SMH shows he is more interested in supporting that mainstream than in challenging it.

Source: Beating Keating and losing – Pearls and Irritations

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On AUKUS, gallery journalists defend the line

In the Canberra press gallery, policy analysis takes second place to ephemeral politics, as highlighted by the response to Paul Keating’s criticisms of the AUKUS submarine deal.

By David Armstrong Mar
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The Morrison circus is over but the mainstream media must go on

It’s facing enormous challenges since Labor won the Federal Election and immediately embarked on a whole new way of doing governance that (so far) positions policy before politics. At first blush, this seems to be the opposite of the “flood the zone with shit” strategy practised by the now defunct L-NP Government led by the now defunct Prime Minister, Scott Morrison.

It’s a challenge for voters as well, reeling as we are from years of daily chaos that rapidly became our new normal as the former Government lurched from one scandal to another, as lies went unremarked and commentators, rather than contest this cavalier abandonment of truthfulness and transparency, normalised it by declaring we were in a “post-truth” world.

The Morrison circus is over but the mainstream media must go on
Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Will the LNP demand the ABC be now more critical of government since they neutered it or more supportive?

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Why I Don’t Trust the Mainstream Media | The Smirking Chimp

In Australia I follow AIM, IA, Michael West Media all of whom aren’t included in any Morrison Government Media plans to have Big tTech pay.. The Shovel and the The Shot are good for a laugh. There is truth in humor and it often hits the target. These are just a few along with some others listed below.

I follow the mainstream media, but I don’t limit myself to it. And I don’t rely on it to educate the public about bold, progressive ideas that would make America and the world fairer and stronger. I read the Guardian, the American Prospect (which, full disclosure, I helped found thirty years ago), Mother Jones, and The Atlantic. I follow several blogs (Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo, for example). I listen to the always thoughtful Democracy Now. And I subscribe to a few newsletters (I hope you like this one and spread word of it). But even with news sources I trust, I still ask myself: how are choices being framed? What’s being left out? What big underlying issues are being assumed away or obscured? When our democracy is under assault from so many directions, I think we need to educate and re-educate ourselves (and our children) about how to learn what’s really going on — how to absorb the news critically. Isn’t this a minimal responsibility of democratic citizenship? What do you think?

Source: Why I Don’t Trust the Mainstream Media | The Smirking Chimp

Republicans

The Charlottesville Model: Trump’s “Fine People” Praise of White Nationalists Is Now GOP Mainstream | The Smirking Chimp

The big takeaway that Republican leaders and conservative pundits clearly got from the Trump era was that the Republican base wants their racism delivered piping hot and with the minimal amount of subtlety. It’s a situation that is likely to get much worse before it gets better.

Source: The Charlottesville Model: Trump’s “Fine People” Praise of White Nationalists Is Now GOP Mainstream | The Smirking Chimp

White Privilege, White Supremecists, White Terrorism

Uncovering the plans of Australian white supremacists

The mainstream media is giving racial extremists such as Tom Sewell a platform to spread his message of hatred to potential recruits, writes Tom Tanuki.

Source: Uncovering the plans of Australian white supremacists

Bernie Sanders, Uncategorized

The Lies Corporate Media Tell When Bernie Sanders Is “Extreme” and Trump’s GOP Is “Mainstream” | The Smirking Chimp

via The Lies Corporate Media Tell When Bernie Sanders Is “Extreme” and Trump’s GOP Is “Mainstream” | The Smirking Chimp

Media monitoring

World politics as a spaghetti western (Part 1)

When it comes to mainstream media coverage of foreign policy, our side are the good guys; those not on our side are the bad guys, writes Dr Evan Jones.

Source: World politics as a spaghetti western (Part 1)