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Local Republican politicians have blocked Medicaid expansion in 10 states, preventing some 1.5 million low-income people from getting health insurance that would cost those states nearly nothing.
But NPR obfuscates this by blaming the perfectly vague "entrenched politics."
The word "Republican" doesn't even appear until the 13th paragraph of the article.
The #nytimes Morning newsletter once again rehashes its pro-policing claims that take "more police officers" as playing a key role in the dropping murder rate.
My previous debunking here: https://fair.org/home/nyt-twists-stats-to-insist-we-need-more-policing/
Also read the incisive work of Alec Karakatsanis for more: https://equalityalec.substack.com
News outlets that warned breathlessly of a coming "border crisis" with the end of Title 42 yawned when a child died days later in Border Patrol custody.
https://fair.org/home/for-media-border-crisis-means-migrants-coming-not-migrants-dying/
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UPDATE: Citations have been included in the first paragraph and a news article has been added. “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, and that’s power.” -Malcolm X For more than 40 years, the U.S. government ha
How to cover a senator who’s trying to hold modern-day robber barons accountable, when you report for a paper owned by a modern-day robber baron: breezily mock him in the Style section, obviously. (Headline: "Is Bernie Sanders Happy?")
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/18/bernie-sanders-fun/
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