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The New York Times ran a detailed account of how Trump and Netanyahu launched the war on Iran. But it left out the paper's own role in paving the way for war--with what it wrote and when it kept silent.
Since birth rate is not a significant problem for the US in the foreseeable future unless you prevent immigration, the idea repeated in media that “civilization” will collapse from a falling birth rate actually means--“white civilization.”
https://fair.org/home/the-regressive-ideologies-behind-the-baby-bust-panic/
"In the past two years, over 300 cities have passed laws that make it a crime to be homeless. Many of them include things like a thousand dollars in fines. If folks had a thousand dollars, they wouldn’t be sleeping outside."
https://fair.org/home/the-targeting-of-homelessness-has-been-a-tactic-of-authoritarian-regimes/
Apocalyptic narratives about AI may be largely if not entirely designed to justify more investment in a technology that has already sucked up so much money that analysts wonder if it will ever show a profit.
"For war propaganda to be effective, it doesn't necessarily have to result in the population being enthusiastic about it. The main thing it needs to accomplish is to plant enough doubt, sow enough confusion, that people aren't organizing in large enough numbers to bring it to a halt."
The Wall Street Journal, one of the few major US outlets to cover the Israeli attack on the Tehran synagogue, referred in a headline to Israel's "Damage to Iran Synagogue"--which resembles the "damage" Al Qaeda did to the World Trade Center towers.
https://fair.org/home/israel-destroys-a-synagogue-us-media-yawn/
The FTC, weaponized, along with so many nominally nonpartisan agencies, in service of MAGA and Trumpism, launched a legal attack on the group Media Matters, because of a report that rattled Elon Musk. Three years later, the FTC is throwing in the towel on that bullying, with a legally binding settlement.
Media Matters president Angelo Carusone says the victory “shows the importance of holding power to account, and the importance of fighting instead of folding.”
https://fair.org/home/angelo-carusone-on-media-matters-v-ftc-rachel-k-jones-2023-on-mifepristone/
"Even when business was booming, relatively speaking for the newspaper industry, there were countless communities that were left undercovered, underserved, even outright maligned by the media. Just like in so many other parts of our society, access and resources in local media were really and have been shaped by these deep inequities. And we know the commercial market isn't going to fix those inequities on its own."
https://fair.org/home/local-news-is-a-genuine-public-good-we-need-for-our-democracy/
"We have fought very hard in a lot of places to get states to release the names of companies, whether it’s how they are treating employers, or other types of regulatory violations that they have, or whether it’s getting an incentive. You have to know the name of the company getting the incentive to figure out what they’re doing with the money, what the community gets in return, and to hold them accountable for when they fall short."
