bsmall2Mar 7
> No mention of parents in Minab, who dropped their daughters off at school March 3 and now have to bury them. What’s losing a child when we’re talking about you maybe—or maybe not—paying less at the pump, amirite?
https://fair.org/home/gregory-shupak-on-the-us-war-on-iran/
#FairOrg #GregoryShupak #WarOnIran
Gregory Shupak on the US War on Iran

It’s hard to parse US corporate news coverage of the attacks on Iran if you aren’t willing to let go of the idea that might does not, in fact, make right.

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bsmall2Nov 8

> It would seem that “pragmatism” in the minds of the country’s establishment punditocracy means not the dictionary definition of “dealing with a problem in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist,” but instead something more like “upholding the status quo.”

https://fair.org/home/for-establishment-press-the-lesson-of-mamdanis-victory-is-to-take-no-lessons/

#FairOnMamdami #FairOrg #MayorMamdami

For Establishment Press, the Lesson of Mamdani’s Victory Is to Take No Lessons

Corporate media pundits desperately wanted Mamdani's victory to have no impact on the ideological direction of the Democratic Party.

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bsmall2Oct 17
> Corporate media outlets leave audiences at the mercy of what are posed as competing "narratives," rather than with a clear understanding of what’s real and what’s fake.
https://fair.org/home/trumps-portland-lies-euphemized-as-dueling-versions-of-reality/
#FAIROrg #CorporateMedia #ProtlandLies #TrumpEuphemized
#uspol #USAMedia
Trump’s Portland Lies Euphemized as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’

When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.

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bsmall2Sep 20
> Kristi Noem says videotaping ICE agents is illegally “doxxing” them, even as JD Vance is saying everyone should “call the employer” of anyone who posts anything short of praise of Charlie Kirk online. Language for the Trump administration is not a shared understanding; it’s just another tool to push the actions they seek to carry out.
https://fair.org/home/matthew-cunningham-cook-on-criminalizing-witness-tim-karr-on-media-compliance/
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#CuteWhenIDoIt #KristiNoem
Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance

Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people "resisting arrest." And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.

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bsmall2Sep 19
> Set aside Kirk’s.. straw man argument that pretends Ms. Rachel quotes Leviticus rather than Matthew... . Kirk did not “directly advocate for stoning gay people to death.” And yet the straightforward way to read a self-professed Christian—and biblical literalist—characterizing a chapter of the Bible as “affirm[ing] God’s perfect law” is as an endorsement of the laws... —in this case, condoning the stoning to death of non-celibate gay people.
https://fair.org/home/action-alert-snopes-thinks-kirk-was-kidding-about-killing-gays-being-gods-perfect-law/
#CharlieKirk #FairOrg #SnopesKirk #StoningDeath #MsRachel #LoveYourNeighbor #uspol
ACTION ALERT: Snopes Thinks Kirk Was Kidding About Killing Gays Being ‘God’s Perfect Law’

Please ask Snopes to reevaluate its finding that Charlie Kirk was not endorsing the stoning of gays, which he called "God's perfect law."

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bsmall2Sep 17
> “Charlie Kirk’s murder was one of the worst moments in recent American history,” read the subhead of an Atlantic piece (9/11/25) by Graeme Wood. (It was apparently much worse than US support for killing thousands of children in Gaza, about which Wood shrugged, “war is ugly,” arguing that it’s “possible to kill children legally”—Atlantic, 5/17/24.)
https://fair.org/home/kirk-coverage-downplayed-magas-culture-of-violence/
#FairOrg #AriPaul #GraemeWood #CharlieKirkShooting #GazaGenocide #KillChildrenLegally #uspol
Kirk Coverage Downplayed MAGA’s Culture of Violence

The right-wing movement Kirk was a crucial part of has played the leading role in dehumanizing others and normalizing violence.

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Show threadbsmall2Sep 6, 2025
> Since 2015, the Journal has reported the Justice Department’s “star witness” to be former Chávez bodyguard Leamsy Salazar, who defected to the US in 2014. Over the subsequent years, Salazar has proven himself a steady source of wild, unsubstantiated allegations involving Cabello and other top Bolivarian officials that have been repeated by corporate journalists.
#DiosdadoCabello #LeamsySalazar
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bsmall2Sep 6, 2025
> The Guardian (2/12/08), ever willing to serve Washington’s foreign policy interests, also debuted its own bombshell “investigation” in 2008, headlined “Revealed: Chávez Role in Cocaine Trail to Europe.” All these spectacular claims rely on the testimony of anonymous intelligence officials and alleged FARC deserters, to whom readers are expected to give the benefit of the doubt.
https://fair.org/home/media-continue-to-push-misinformation-about-venezuela-and-drug-trafficking/
#FairOrg #VenezuelanDrugs #VenezuelanCocaine #TheGuardian
Media Continue to Push Misinformation About Venezuela and Drug Trafficking

Allegations of Chavista drug trafficking count among the corporate media’s favorite Venezuela soundbites. A new Wall Street Journal article rehashes the same claims, but extends them to taint late President Hugo Chávez, who is purported to have “wielded cocaine trafficking as a weapon.”

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bsmall2Jun 14, 2025
> While major media sources described these protests as “mostly peaceful,” they nevertheless tended to dwell on what was depicted as rioting and protester violence. .. Protesters or Agitators: Who Is Driving Chaos at LA Immigration Protests?”—never offering readers the possibility that the answer is, in fact, law enforcement. The framing came directly from McDonnell’s..
https://fair.org/home/for-media-unruly-protesters-are-bigger-problem-than-trumps-police-state/
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For Media, Unruly Protesters Are Bigger Problem Than Trump’s Police State

While major media sources described LA protests as “mostly peaceful,” they nevertheless tended to dwell on what was depicted as rioting and protester violence.

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bsmall2Jan 7, 2025
> Bezos also trekked down to Mar-a-Lago, gifts in hand—just as #Telnaes depicted. In addition to ponying up $1 million for Trump’s inauguration fund, Amazon is also broadcasting the inauguration live on Amazon Prime, an in-kind donation worth another $1 million (BBC, 1/4/25).
https://fair.org/home/wapo-kills-cartoon-that-mocked-the-boss-and-trump/
#FairOrg #JeffBezos #TrumpBezos #MoneyPolitics #uspol #AnnTelnaes
WaPo Kills Cartoon That Mocked the Boss—and Trump

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”

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