Article in Mediaite by Colby Hall 11/10/25
Headline: “Trump’s Pardons Are Rewriting His 2020 Failed Coup — And the Media Is Letting Him”
“President Donald Trump is betting you’ve already forgotten how close the nation came to an abject election meltdown in 2020. Judging by the way the media will almost certainly cover his latest wave of pardons — speed-run through the news cycle and treated like just another Trump social media post — he may be right. . .”
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Article in AlterNet by Robert Reich, 11/6/25
Headline: “The media once again misses the real news about Trump’s rapid mental decline “
” ‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT’ . . .”, according to Pollsters,’ Trump posted after Tuesday’s blowout, not naming the pollsters.
“Yet the media obediently repeated Trump’s words, as if they were news.
“They aren’t news. They’re postures. His words and thoughts add nothing to our understanding of anything. Yet the media reproduces them as if they did.
“He says whatever happens to be in his brain at the moment. He posts about whatever annoys him at the moment. He constantly changes his mind. His brain wanders in ways that cause many to question whether he — who will be 80 in June, and whose family has a history of dementia — is all there. . .”
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Article in AlterNet by Jon Stoehr, 11/5/25
Headline: “Democratic elites fall for lies from Trump and the right-wing media complex”
“. . .to Donald Trump. All Democrats, all liberals, all progressives, all leftists, and all socialists, democratic and otherwise, are the name. They are radical Marxist anarchist communists or whatever word salad pops into his soupy brain. There are no enemies to his right. There is nothing but enemies to his left. Does he respect his enemies enough to speak truthfully about them?
“No, he lies. . . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Arwa Mahdawi, 11/4/25
Headline: “Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level”
Subhead: “How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia?
“. . .As we all know, a good journalist should always make the rich and powerful feel comfortable.
“While I wait for that day to come, I’m watching and learning from the head honchos at CBS. Trump appeared on CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night for his first sit-down with the show in five years and commented on how much better the network has become after its owner, Paramount, was taken over by his billionaire allies, the father-and-son duo Larry and David Ellison. . .”
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Article in The New Republic by Jason Linkins, 11/2/25
Headline: “This Is the Media’s Worst Euphemism for Trump’s Tyrannical Abuses”
Subhead: “Readers beware—and be on the lookout for the ‘departure.’ ”
“. . .Behold, the ‘departure.’ Back on September 10, The New York Times used the term in their report of the Trump administration’s extrajudicial killings on the high seas. Their sources, per the report, provided ‘new details about a military operation that was a startling departure. . .’ ”
“. . .More recently, a CNN report on Trump having collected a $130 million private donation to pay military service salaries—a highly impeachable offense for what is a comically paltry sum of money—explained that the move ‘marks a striking departure. . .’ ”
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https://newrepublic.com/post/202475/media-euphemism-trump-sanewashing-departure
Article in Mediaite by Zachary Leeman, 10/28/25
Headline: “Michael Moore Goes Off On ‘Racist and Disgusting Attacks’ From Media Against Mamdani: ‘Level of Hate Is Sickening’ “
“The Bowling for Columbine director praised Mamdani for handling himself with ‘courage, dignity, and class’ amid the attacks.
“ ‘From open violent threats directed at Zohran and his family, to hateful and bigoted TV ads, to racist and disgusting attacks from the media and his opponents, the level of hate is sickening, Moore wrote. . .’ ”
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Article in The Atlantic by Anne Applebaum, 10/27/25
Headline: “The Pentagon’s Version of Regime Propaganda”
Subhead: “The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.”
“When you imagine media in a dictatorship, you probably think of something dull and gray. Maybe a Soviet state-television program, extolling the annual harvest. Perhaps a smudgy newspaper photograph of Chairman Mao or General Pinochet, surrounded by blocks of turgid prose.
“But if that is your mental picture, then your imagination is out of date. Nowadays, authoritarian propaganda can be varied, colorful, even mesmerizing. . .”
“For the first time in our history, the Department of Defense has been carefully preparing to offer Americans something similar: not information but entertainment, scandal, sycophancy, and jokes. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 10/27/25
Headline: “Pete Hegseth is replacing the Pentagon press corps with MAGA propagandists”
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is stifling the Pentagon’s channels for public information and cutting off avenues for accountability as U.S. forces deploy on missions of dubious legality that are fraught with potential danger. . .”
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Article in Comic Sands by Amelia Mavis Christnot, 10/23/25
Headline: “Fox News Host’s Gripe About The ‘Slobbering Media’ Is An Awkward Self-Own For The Ages”
Subhead: “Greg Gutfeld called out the ‘allied slobbering media’ while criticizing former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s new book—and the hypocrisy is off the charts. . .”
“Gutfeld, a well-documented media minion for MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, made the hypocrisy of his gripes evident by including effusive, over-the-top praise of Trump as part of his indictment of the media coverage of President Biden. . .”
“Gutfeld, apparently unaware of his own network’s programming or reality, claimed:
” ‘Who is the most successful politician this century? Donald Trump, with 98% of the media against him.’
” ‘Then you look at the KJPs, you look at the Joe Bidens, you look at the Kamala Harrises. They are all abject, pathetic figures. They’re failures, and they had the media on their side. They failed.’
” ‘What does that tell you? An allied slobbering media does you no favors. It leaves you as an incompetent, arrogant, entitled fool’. . .”
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Article in FAIR by Belen Fernandez, 10/21/25
Headline: “To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes”
“. . .In the ten days following the implementation of the ostensible truce, the Israeli military reportedly killed at least 97 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 230, violating the ceasefire agreement no fewer than 80 times. One might have expected, then, to see a headline or two along the lines of, I dunno, “Israel violates ceasefire”—or maybe “So much for ‘peace’ in Gaza.”
“No such headlines turned up in the Western corporate media—not that there weren’t some pretty spectacular violations to choose from. . .”
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https://fair.org/slider/to-media-gaza-ceasefire-holds-despite-repeated-israeli-strikes/
Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson, 10/17/25
Headline: ” ‘You Had US Media Carrying Out Incitement to Genocide, and Then Shifting to Genocide Denial’ “
Subhead: “CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on how to deny genocide”
“. . .The Committee to Protect Journalists states that in the first 10 weeks after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, Israel had already killed more media workers in Gaza than had ever been killed in a year anywhere. Israel has systematically targeted journalists and their families for reporting the realities of genocide, famine and displacement, with the murders often followed by official PR efforts depicting the journalists as Hamas propagandists, or simply as ‘terrorists.’. . .”
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