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The Line Must Be Drawn Here
They’re coming for poor people’s windows.
Adam Johnson
Mar 24
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The Line Must Be Drawn Here
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Media Continue to Blame Pro-Child Labor Bills on “Labor Shortage” Rather than Routine Corporate Greed
Journalists continue to take corporate America’s “labor shortage” pretext at face value.
Adam Johnson
Mar 15
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The Tyranny of the ‘Not Surprised’ Guy
The ‘Not Surprised’ Guy—and his close cousin, the Well, That’s Just How It Is Guy have come to dominate liberal commentary.
Adam Johnson
Mar 7
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February 2023
NYT Child Labor Report, Govt Response, Shows How Corporate Child Exploitation Is Simply Not a “Crime”
Concerned reporting, feigned outrage, more fines—then back to business as usual.
Adam Johnson
Feb 27
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To NYT’s Peter Baker, Acknowledging Trans People’s Existence Is “Activism,” Openly Advocating for Perpetual U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan…
What is and isn’t “activism” depends entirely on how conservative the activism is.
Adam Johnson
Feb 22
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To NYT’s Peter Baker, Acknowledging Trans People’s Existence Is “Activism,” Openly Advocating for Perpetual U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan Isn’t
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MSNBC, Sunday Morning News Shows Completely Ignore Ohio Chemical Derailment
The disaster is being covered by corporate media here and there as straight news, but it’s absent from any political debate.
Adam Johnson
Feb 13
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US Media’s “Chinese Spy Balloon” Meltdown Shows Intellectual Vacuity of “National Security” Coverage
Was it a “spy balloon” at all? To US media outlets it didn’t matter, what matters is something Bad And Dire and Sinister has happened and we must all…
Adam Johnson
Feb 6
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January 2023
Washington Post Editorial on the Tyre Nichols Murder Shows Liberal Reformers Are All Out of Ideas—Even Fake Ones
A phoned-in editorial shows that elite consensus makers aren’t even bothering to run through the motions of substantive reform.
Adam Johnson
Jan 31
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Washington Post Editorial on the Tyre Nichols Murder Shows Liberal Reformers Are All Out of Ideas—Even Fake Ones
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Despite “Costing Taxpayers” $366 Million, NYPD Overtime Overages Get Zero Critical Coverage in “Fare Evasion” Obsessed NY Media
Both are costing the public hundreds of millions of dollars, but only one generates outrage and cries for crackdowns.
Adam Johnson
Jan 17
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Despite “Costing Taxpayers” $366 Million, NYPD Overtime Overages Get Zero Critical Coverage in “Fare Evasion” Obsessed NY Media
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4 Euphemisms Our Media Uses to Avoid Talking About the Rightwing Incitement Campaign Against Trans People
We cannot name the hate campaign against LGBTQ people, because to do this we would have to acknowledge it’s not simply a “gender issue”—but a campaign…
Adam Johnson
Jan 9
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December 2022
Southwest Airlines' Christmas Meltdown Shows How Corporations Deliberately Pit Consumers Against Low-Wage Workers
Our system is set up to create mutual antagonism between members of the working class. Meanwhile, faceless corporate executives remain shielded like mob…
Adam Johnson
Dec 27, 2022
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On Cue, Saudi and Weapons-Contractor-Funded Pundits Attack Bernie Sanders' Yemen War Powers Resolution
The past few days shows how undisclosed influence by weapons makers and Gulf despots defines the foreign policy “think tank” world.
Adam Johnson
Dec 16, 2022
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On Cue, Saudi and Weapons-Contractor-Funded Pundits Attack Bernie Sanders' Yemen War Powers Resolution
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