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Julie Hollar on Election 2020 Coverage
Election Focus 2020: Voters are looking for substantive reporting on candidates' public records. But as we record the show, the major election story seems to be about Joe Biden's leg hair.
‘It’s This Culture of Secrecy That’s Pervading the Courts’
"If the government is going to come in and say you can't say something you have a constitutional right to say, they have to meet a very high burden."
‘Giuliani Did All the Wrong Things on That Day’
"All of the media coverage in the aftermath of 9/11 stressed how Giuliani was the king of Ground Zero, that he ran it from top to bottom. That was at a time when everyone thought it was going so smoothly."
Wayne Barrett on Rudy Giuliani, Melissa Goodman on the PATRIOT Act
Much of media's story around Giuliani was about how cool and effective he was on September 11, 2001. And much of that story is myth.
‘This Was a Test Case to See How a Couple of Photos Could Silence Women’
"We all have stuff that lives on our phones and social media that could potentially have the same effect, if it's released in the way that Katie Hill’s information was released."
After Al-Baghdadi’s Death, Media Failed to Ask Where ‘War on Terror’ Is Going
The circumscribed coverage of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death represented yet another artful evasion of any critical discussion of imperial foreign policy.
Michael Edison Hayden on Stephen Miller, Mallory McMaster on Katie Hill
Calls are coming in for the resignation of Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller, after leaked emails show him promoting white nationalist books and ideas to the far-right outlet Breitbart.
‘Years From Now, It’ll Be Clear to Everyone There Was a Coup in Bolivia’
"The Organization of American States and much of the major media misled public opinion as to what was happening with these elections, and created this belief that there had been severe irregularities in the vote count."
‘Community Control Over Police Should Be a Democratic Right’
"The police and law enforcement are needed to sustain the status quo, and put down threats to the status quo that emanate from the people, but particularly organized and politically conscious formations and efforts."
Unpacking Media Propaganda About Bolivia’s Election
Editorials read as though it were a settled fact that the Morales government stole the election, though there’s a paucity of evidence to believe that that’s what happened.