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6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak

The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in…

January 31, 2018
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Tillerson’s Promise of More War in Syria Gets Warm Reception From Corporate Media

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In a speech at Stanford this month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared that America intends to keep military troops in Syria indefinitely, in pursuit of the US’s “key end states…

January 30, 2018
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WaPo Editor Blames Lack of US Leadership for Famine Caused by US Leadership

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Washington Post‘s Jackson Diehl (1/21/18): “It’s getting easier for regimes to commit — and get away with — crimes against humanity.”

January 24, 2018
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Coverage of Iran Protests Illustrated With Protests Not in Iran––Organized by Fringe Cultists

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When it comes to covering protests in other countries, it seems any vague picture of brown people protesting can stand in for those actually on the streets expressing their grievances.…

January 12, 2018
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The Biggest Secret: James Risen on Life as a NY Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror

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We spend the hour with former New York Times reporter James Risen, who left the paper in August to join The Intercept as senior national security correspondent. This week, he…

January 5, 2018
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NYT Trumpwashes 70 Years of US Crimes

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Trumpwashing—defined as whitewashing, obscuring or rewriting the broader US record by presenting Donald Trump as an aberration (FAIR.org, 6/3/16)—was on full display Thursday in a nominally straight news report from the New…

December 31, 2017
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