Corporate media attached the label “far left” to the name Antifa, as though being anti-fascist is somehow now beyond the pale. Doing that, they legitimized government efforts to take the First Amendment activities, and make them suspect.
The Times insinuates that Black and Latino activists entering primaries, canvassing voters, promoting affordability, turning out supporters in low-turnout elections is a kind of dirty trick. In other words, the Times is afraid of too much democracy.
The double standards, the legacy media pile-on, and why a landslide primary victory tells you everything about who the billionaire class is actually afraid of.
US corporate media consistently muddy Israeli expansionism in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon through a combination of abstruse language and linguistic balms like “buffer zone” and “security zone.”
With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.
Bari Weiss blocked a devastating 60 Minutes exposé on CECOT — showing how Trump administration authoritarianism flows through corporate media, not jackboot censorship.
Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.
Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.
Worker power is contested not just at the bargaining table, but also in the stories told about workers.
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