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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.
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/
#nytimes columnist Pamela Paul bashes Stanford protesters of Trump-appointed judge Kyle Duncan, suggesting they refused to "hear out their opponents" or "assume their opponent is operating in good faith."
Paul might want to do a little research before writing about things, rather than just taking the right-wing narrative as truth. Does she really think it's the students in these exchanges (see link) who refused to hear their opponent out or operate in good faith?
The AP tells its readers today that the Iraq War "exposed the limitations of America's ability to export democracy"—disappearing down the memory hole Bush's efforts to stymie free elections when his hand-picked candidates were clearly not going to win.
Democracy is never the goal for US foreign policy, as US interventions across the globe make abundantly clear, but corporate media will far more often reinforce rather than challenge the myth.
In the months before the January 30, 2005 elections in Iraq, gloom and dissension began creeping into the media’s usual cheerleading for the war. Casualties were mounting, Iraqi resentment was growing, and the Army was facing an alarming shortage of manpower. In a December column (12/27/04), Washington Post editorial-page editor Fred Hiatt—a staunch supporter of […]
In the upside-down world of #nytimes liberal Pamela Paul, Ron DeSantis is a "maverick" liberals could learn a lot from, but trans critics of JK Rowling are "authoritarian" and "bullies." To Paul, it's folks like herself and Rowling who are the "vulnerable" ones, not the trans people who are facing demonization, actual violence and legislation targeting their rights and very existence.
BEING CRITICIZED ON TWITTER IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO HAVING YOUR RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY BY THE STATE.
