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A survey of CNN, CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News finds 425 individual stories about Queen Elizabeth II’s death since Sept 7—and 331 total stories on…
Gabe Levine-Drizin
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Adam Johnson
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Koch Industries pitchman Mike Rowe fetishes those with Dirty Jobs—until they actually demand something from their bosses.
Adam Johnson
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Violating Betteridge’s Law of Headlines to update on an important topic.
Adam Johnson
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Employing a warmed-over, cynical strike-breaking tactic, Brianna Keilar implies striking teachers are harming children’s mental and educational…
Adam Johnson
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From cutting down trees to running intimidation campaigns to proposing an internment camp, city leaders are pushing “solutions” to homelessness with new…
Adam Johnson
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From Covid restrictions to immigration to loan forgiveness, right-wing think tanks and pundits who make a living harming the poor fake concern for their…
Adam Johnson
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Sarah Lazare
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Voters are understandably frustrated with our political system. Hucksters and Wall Street funders know how to parlay this frustration into a P.R. ploy…
Adam Johnson
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After running nonstop sob stories about put-upon landlords in 2021, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News have largely ignored the devastating spike in…
Adam Johnson
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Media hysteria around “rising crime” works because it touches on something real: a palpable increase in visible human suffering. What matters is how we…
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A lesson in how elite media registers harm.
Adam Johnson
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Is crime one of many factors when making business decisions? Of course. Is it quickly becoming a catch-all to mask corporate mismanagement and misdeeds…
Adam Johnson
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If the U.S. “abandons its principles” on a daily basis, maybe they’re not really principles. Who benefits from the nonstop pretense of the reluctant…
Adam Johnson
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