Selective Coverage

Coming Storm in the Media

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Ivan L. Nagy and Riddhi Setty, 9/23/26

Headline: “How Should We Cover the Climate Story?”

Subhead:  “Speaking with climate reporters about staying on the beat—because, as Bill McKibben put it, ‘for better or for worse, by this time next year, there’s no doubt in my mind that climate coverage will be at the forefront.’”

“. . .Climate journalism can feel like a series of devastating yet foreseeable tragedies, all happening against a drumbeat of bad news—like the United Nations report this month that global temperatures will rise past a dangerous threshold. Meanwhile, climate desks at legacy organizations have shrunk or disbanded, including at NPR. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/feature/how-should-we-cover-the-climate-story.php

Rt. Media Says “A.I is No Problem”

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Article in Media Matters 9/15/26 by Helena Hind, Jane Lee & Evlondo Cooper

Headline: “Right-wing media downplay AI safety concerns as a hoax by comparing them to climate change and “COVID hysteria”

“Right-wing media are following President Donald Trump in dismissing calls to slow down AI development in the wake of multiple hacking incidents as a ‘hoax,’ comparing concerns over AI to ‘climate change apocalyptic talk’ and ‘COVID hysteria’ including support for vaccines. . .”

“Trump vehemently rejected the idea of an AI slowdown in a series of Truth Social posts on September 14, calling the push for caution a ‘hoax,’ ‘scam,’ and a ‘SICK conspiracy.’ . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/right-wing-media-downplay-ai-safety-concerns-hoax-comparing-them-climate-change-and

Fox – See-No-War

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Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 9/10/26

Headline:  “Trump’s war in Iran is over—at least according to Fox News“

“President Donald Trump’s months-long war in Iran has cost lives and economic stability. But Fox News has a solution to the problem: Just stop talking about it.

“Media Matters for America analyzed coverage of the war between March and August and discovered that, as things got worse for the United States, Fox stopped airing stories about it.

“The decline was especially noteworthy on Fox’s evening shows, which are hosted by some of the network’s marquee names. Across “The Five,” “Hannity,” “The Ingraham Angle,” “Jesse Watters Primetime,” and “Gutfeld!,” coverage of the war fell by 78%. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/10/800096520/media/trumps-war-in-iran-is-over-at-least-according-to-fox-news/

Censoring Information From Military

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Article in The Atlantic by Erik Slavin, 9/9/26

Headline: “The Inside Story of What Happened at Stars and Stripes“

Subhead: “For generations, the newspaper has served American military families. That work must continue. And it must remain editorially independent.”

“. . .Uniformed military leaders have not lost the means to analyze and act on useful journalism. But publicly denouncing the reporting or the news outlet makes it far less likely that they will. Attacking people for telling the truth creates a chilling effect for truth tellers—including those who are themselves in the military.

“The best journalism unearths information that complex bureaucracies overlook or suppress, intentionally or not. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/pentagon-military-newspaper-independence-supression/688547/

Rt. Media, No Rage at Machines

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Article in FAIR by Ari Paul, 9/9/26

Headline:  “Repeat After Media: Data Centers Are Wonderful and Good”

“If you follow conservative media and Republican politicians, you could be convinced that any opposition to AI data centers is not due to their sprawling footprint, greed for electricity or insatiable need for cooling water. Rather, it’s the result of a Chinese Communist plot. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/repeat-after-media-data-centers-are-wonderful-and-good/

Fox Falling into Iranian Sinkhole?

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 9/9/26

Headline:  “Iran coverage collapsed this summer on Fox News’ evening “opinion” shows”

Subhead:  “No war but the culture war: Network stars’ references to socialism, WNBA, Fauci, now swamping Iran”

“Six months into the war Donald Trump launched against Iran, the campaign ‘has deteriorated into a quagmire of the president’s own making with no clear goals, no obvious strategy and no end in sight’. . .”

“But on Fox News — the MAGA propaganda network that urged Trump to attack Iran in the first place — some of his most devoted allies have all but completely stopped talking about it. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/iran-coverage-collapsed-summer-fox-news-evening-opinion-shows

Corporate Reporting & McMansions

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Article in FAIR by Wilson Korik, 8/31/26

Headline:  “Corporate Media Worried Second Homes of ‘Blue-Collar’ Millionaires Might Be Taxed”

“. . .instead of accurately reporting on a modest wealth tax and fraud prevention measure, some corporate media took the opportunity to fabricate a reality in which the number of New Yorkers subjected to the tax was vastly overestimated, conjuring up a large mass of working- and middle-class New Yorkers who would have to deal with an opaque, complex exemption process. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-worried-second-homes-of-blue-collar-millionaires-might-be-taxed/

NYT Spinning the Wheel?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 8/25/26

Headline:  “The Times’ Kalshi Gamble”

Subhead: “News that The Athletic is in talks with Kalshi on a potential partnership has prompted unease inside the broader New York Times Co. over the reputational risks of getting into bed with the controversial company, staffers tell Status.”

“. . .One of those partners, I am told, is Kalshi, the controversial prediction markets company, where users can bet on topics ranging from elections to finance to culture—and yes, sports. According to Front Office Sports, which first broke the news, The Athletic and Kalshi are in “advanced talks” to strike up an agreement, . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/the-athletic-kalshi-new-york-times-sports-betting

Went Past Media Hook

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Article in Common Dreams by Julia Conley, 8/21/26

Headline:  “In Post-Primary Media Tour, Angie Nixon Refuses to Take Corporate Media’s Bait on Hasan Piker, DSA”

Subhead: “I am actually focused on Florida and making sure that I’m talking to voters here, to uplift their needs and their concerns,’ said the progressive Democrat. ‘And so that’s what my focus is going to be over the next 76 days.”

“The corporate media has spent months helping to push the narrative that progressive Democratic candidates are anti-American and have radical foreign policy views . . .”

“But Nixon (D-13) suggested Thursday night she prefers to discuss her desire to represent working Florida residents’ interests in the Senate over the topics that news anchors are eager to talk about. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/angie-nixon-senate

 

Media Run Toward Fake Poles?

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Article in Status by Brett LoGiurato, 8/21/26

Headline: “The Media’s Fake Poll Flub”

Subhead: “A fake polling firm fooled Rupert Murdoch’s California Post and local outlets, exposing how quickly bogus numbers can become news and raising fresh questions about reporting standards.”

“Earlier this week, the California Post, the fledgling Los Angeles-based tabloid of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, reported a shocking story about a bogus poll from a fake firm called ‘Median Strategies’ that fooled everyone up to the city’s mayor, Karen Bass.

“The story featured a comment from Bass, whose office demanded that those behind it face the ‘full force of the law.’ It ended with a comment from a veteran political consultant who said that ‘whoever is responsible for this ought to be exposed.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/california-post-fake-poll-mistake