Selective Coverage

Media Suggesting “What You May Like”?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Lucy Schiller, 12/9/25

Headline:  “Locally Sourced Chum”

Subhead:  “The AI widgets taking over news sites and extracting our data.”

“Recently, on the website of USA Today, I asked a generative AI chatbot called DeeperDive a question: ‘Is AI good?’ DeeperDive, which was unveiled in June, is a product of a company called Taboola, one of the largest native advertising platforms on the internet, with some nine thousand publishing partners. USA Today’s corporate parent—formerly known as Gannett, which recently rebranded as USA Today Co.—runs America’s biggest newspaper chain, and has been in business with Taboola since 2013, amassing user data, selling ads, and suggesting ‘content you may like’ . . .”

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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/locally-sourced-chum-ai-widgets-extracting-data-news-sites.php

Journalists Enable Madmen?

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Article in Daily Beast by Jack Revell, 11/28/25

Headline:  “Rosie O’Donnell Rages at Reporters Enabling ‘Madman’ Trump”

Subhead:  “Trump’s long-time rival says journalists let him ‘verbally rape a woman’ with his ‘stupid person’ outburst.”

“. . .Reacting to a viral clip of the president berating a female reporter as ‘stupid’ on Thursday, O’Donnell said that White House journalists need to push back on Trump’s personal attacks.

“ ‘A decent person would stand up in spite of their job and say ‘I will not sit here and watch you verbally assault and attack and rape a woman,’ O’Donnell said.. .”

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https://archive.ph/O1p1F#selection-1381.1-1391.160

Sometimes The Press Fails

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Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson, 11/26/25

Headline:  “Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre”

“. . .As Joe Torres (Free Press, 5/27/21), co-author of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, recounted, the local white-owned press didn’t just fuel the massacre; it also helped cover it up. The other main local paper, the Tulsa World, provided the white narrative of the massacre in its headline (6/1/1921) the next day: ‘Two Whites Dead in Race Riot.’. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/press-remembers-oldest-survivor-of-tulsa-massacre-but-not-presss-role-in-massacre/

Some Media: Selective Treason

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Article in Media Matters by Gideon Taaffe & Jack Winstanley, 11/20/25

Headline: “Right-wing media figures are calling a recent video from Democratic lawmakers ‘treason’ and ‘sedition’ ”

“Sean Hannity: “The video that encourages military members to defy illegal orders ‘is unlawful, a brazen act of subversion against our country’ ”

“After six Democratic lawmakers released a video encouraging active members of the military and intelligence community to ‘refuse illegal orders,’ as they are required by law, many right-wing media figures claimed that they are committing ‘treason,’ fomenting ‘sedition or insurrection,’ and trying to “trigger a military coup.’. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-figures-are-calling-recent-video-democratic-lawmakers-treason-and

Media Promote War?

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Article in Common Dreams by Ricardo Vaz, 11/20/25

Headline:  “Venezuela Gets the Iraq Treatment: US Corporate Media Manufactures Consent for Another Imperialist War”

Subhead:  “Over weeks of military buildup and threats, corporate outlets elected to ignore the evidence disproving Trump’s claims and to platform warmongers.”

“. . .Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 6/4/21, 1/22/20). Now, with a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are making little effort to hold the US government accountable. Rather, they are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

Where’s Media?

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Article in The Contrarian by Josh Levs, 11/19/25

Headline:  “Trump’s Epstein call is coming from inside the house”

Subhead:  “There’s something we know for certain, and the media is failing to convey it clearly.”

“When a House committee released some documents related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein last week, the overtly partisan media did what it always does: grab a few lines out of context and rush to sweeping conclusions. Mainstream media did what it always does, as well: find any morsels to play up in hopes of getting people to click, watch, listen, or read, even if it’s unclear what those morsels mean. So, yet again, the public has been subjected to a confusing morass in the news. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-epstein-call-is-coming-from

Pundits Ignore Things?

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Article in FAIR by Julie Hollar, 11/7/25

Headline:  “For Establishment Press, the Lesson of Mamdani’s Victory Is to Take No Lessons”

“. . .Corporate media acknowledged the strong rebuke to the Trump regime, but pundits and reporters across the country’s major national newspapers quickly warned Democrats against reading too much into Mamdani’s victory or shifting too far to the left. . .”

“It would seem that ‘pragmatism’ in the minds of the country’s establishment punditocracy means not the dictionary definition of ‘dealing with a problem in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist,’ but instead something more like ‘upholding the status quo.’. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/for-establishment-press-the-lesson-of-mamdanis-victory-is-to-take-no-lessons

Full Mental News?

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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. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/trump-mental/

Media Swamps?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 11/6/25

Headline:  “Tucker’s WSJ Turbulence”

Subhead: “Inside The Wall Street Journal, Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker is navigating staff unease while reshaping the newsroom and quietly vetting candidates for its most powerful vacant roles.”

Read the article at:

https://www.status.news/p/emma-tucker-wall-street-journal-layoffs

Wrong Climate for News?

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Article in The Nation by Amy Westervelt, 11/5/25

Headline:  “The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion”

Subhead: “The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”

” . . .Now new research is highlighting the role the media plays in perpetuating this gap. Yale’s most recent climate opinion poll shows that while more than two-thirds of Americans want stronger climate policy, less than a third of them say they see coverage of the issue in the media at least once a week. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-media-perception-gap/