Selective Coverage

All Hail Legacy Media!

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Article in AlterNet by Earl Stephens, 12/27/25

Headline:  “Veteran journalist issues ruthless takedown of legacy media”

“. . .As many of you are aware, Trump and his lying, subservient Republican Orcs are in a war against the truth, and trying to crush anybody who dares report it. On Sunday, CBS News once again fell at the orange fascist’s fat little feet and spiked a story that was set to run on the once-venerable 60 Minutes news program, about the “the brutal and tortuous conditions” of his detention camps .

“This was only the latest surrender by our diminishing legacy media to the convicted felon who attacked us on January 6, 2021. . .”

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https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/legacy-media-2026/

New Attack on Media?

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Article in AP by David Bauder, 12/19/25

Headline:  “Another line of attack: White House sets up a hall of shame for news outlets”

“NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from ‘everyday Americans.’

The White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets, targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News, The Independent and The Washington Post in its first two “media offenders of the week.”

It’s the latest wrinkle in the fight against what Trump, back in his first term, labeled “fake news.” The Republican president has taken outlets like CBS News and The Wall Street Journal to court over their coverage, is fighting The Associated Press in court over media access and has moved to dismantle government-run outlets like Voice of America. . .”

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-press-media-bias-hall-of-shame-4571e8bfc924de0d83529b635be0a68c

Press Aren’t Coming to Take Him Away, Ha Ha

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Article in The Hill by Chris Truax, 12/19/25

Headline:  “All I want for Christmas is for the media to be honest about Trump”

“. . .Disinhibition can manifest itself in several ways, including ‘socially inappropriate behavior’ and a ‘loss of manners/decorum.’ People in the early stage of Alzheimer’s can begin to lose their social filter and their ability to control their impulses. They may make gratuitous, rude comments, exhibit racism or have sudden bouts of anger. These are all behaviors that Trump has recently displayed. . .”

“And yet, the media reports on Trump as if he were some sort of avant garde political performance artist challenging bourgeois values and outmoded conventions. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5655223-trump-dementia-behavior-concerns/

Criticizing – Part of Journalism

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin, 12/11/25

Headline:  “The Future of Journalism After Gaza”

Subhead:  “Examining an ongoing crisis for press freedom—and how to manage security risks going forward.”

“. . .According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it took only ten weeks at the end of 2022 for Israel to kill more journalists in Gaza than had previously been killed in any one country over an entire year. The attacks have not relented in the three years since: while barring international journalists from entry, the Israeli military has treated journalists inside Gaza as acceptable collateral damage and even, at times, explicit targets. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/kicker/future-journalism-gaza-committee-to-protect-journalists-idf-israeli-military-deadliest-year.php

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Article in Common Dreams by James Zogby, 12/10/25

Headline:  “The Media Is Behind the Times: Criticizing Israel Is No Longer a Political Liability”

Subhead:  “Israel’s war on Palestinians has taken a toll, both on that state’s favorable ratings with US voters and on the policies these voters want their government to take to rein in Israeli behaviors.”

“US voters’ attitudes towards the Israeli Palestinian conflict have changed, but media commentators and political consultants haven’t figured that out. They are stuck in the past with outdated assumptions about the electorate and as a result continue to operate from an old playbook. . .”

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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/criticize-israel-us-politics

Bannon – Epstein – Mainstream Media?

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Article in Media Matters by John Knefel & Sophie Lawton, 12/11/25

Headline: “Mainstream news coverage almost totally ignored Bannon’s extensive ties to Epstein”

Subhead: “Bannon and Epstein exchanged hundreds of emails and texts. Most leading newspaper articles didn’t mention their history, and broadcast news ignored it entirely.”

“Media Matters reviewed print and online articles from the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, as well as weekday episodes of ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, CBS’ Mornings and Evening News, and NBC’s Today and Nightly News and the networks’ Sunday morning political talk shows (ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press) from November 12 through December 8 for articles and segments about Jeffery Epstein. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/mainstream-news-coverage-almost-totally-ignored-bannons-extensive-ties-epstein

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