Norman Solomon on 9/11 hearings & Richard Clarke, John Gorenfeld on Jack Kelley
PlayStop pop out X Download MP3 It’s been a bad week for the White House. In the midst of other brewing scandals, Richard Clarke, the former top Bush counter terrorism official, is charging the White...
View ArticleUSA Today’s SCHIP Favor - Paper's misleading poll boosts White House veto
The White House veto of a Congressional plan to expand the SCHIP children’s health care program seemed to run against public opinion, which squarely supports the measure. But USA Today conducted a...
View ArticleWhite Supremacist Spin at USA Today
USA Today twice (1/16/08; 1/21/08) allowed racist spin to go unchallenged when it identified a white supremacist group that organized a small anti-civil rights rally on Martin Luther King Day only as a...
View ArticleUSA Today Responds on Racist Labeling - Paper can't make judgments, editor says
USA Today Reader Editor Brent Jones responded to questions, prompted by a FAIR Action Alert (1/23/08), about the newspaper’s failure to identify a white supremacist group by arguing that doing so would...
View ArticleUSA Today, AP Mislead on Honduran Coup
This week, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned to Tegucigalpa–though not to office. Unfortunately, press accounts are still misreporting the story behind his ouster, relying on those who...
View ArticleUSA Today’s Social Security Scaremongering
Under the headline “Social Security Races to ‘Negative': Rash of Retirements Push Fund to Brink,” USA Today‘s February 8 front page presented an alarmist view on a story that is regularly misreported...
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SoundBites August 2013
Defining George W. as a Non-Bush Jon Meacham in Time (7/1/13) tried to refurbish the Bush “brand name” in preparation for a possible presidential run by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Jeb long ago...
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Calling TPP Foes ‘Simplistic,’ USA Today Simply Gets the Numbers Wrong
USA Today (5/3/15) got its numbers seriously wrong in pushing the case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Its editorial, headlined “New Trade Deal Triggers Angry, Fact-Free Uproar,” told...
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After Labour Loses With Austerity, US Media Tell Them to Move to the Right
USA Today depicts Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron taking part in a selfie. (photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) When conservatives win elections, the US press invariably reports that the...
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The Mass Surveillance of US Public Continues as USA Today Declares It Ended
USA Today (6/3/15) had a five-column headline across the top of its front page: NSA Data Collection Ended That would be odd, since the National Security Agency exists to collect data; it’s unlikely...
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USA Today Provides a Platform for Anti-Immigration Think Tank’s Flawed Study
A USA Today headline (9/2/15) inaccurately conflates “immigrants” with “immigrant-led households”; many people in households headed by immigrants are US citizens, and they are the ones more likely to...
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Major Papers Reject the Opt-Out Option
Last month, the New York Times editorial board (8/14/15) weighed in on “opting out”—the growing movement of parents refusing the state standardized tests administered every year to students in grades 3...
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The Mass Surveillance of US Public Continues as USA Today Declares It Ended
USA Today (6/3/15) had a five-column headline across the top of its front page: NSA Data Collection Ended That would be odd, since the National Security Agency exists to collect data; it’s unlikely...
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White Man Publishes Book! USA Today Mistakes This for News
Our most finely tuned instruments were unable to detect even trace amounts of irony in this USA Today headline. A collection of short stories published by entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris makes the...
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USA Today Makes Sure Rich Don’t Get Blamed for Middle-Class Stagnation
USA Today‘s depiction of the household income story. The “Nation’s Newspaper” boasts that most of its “editorials are coupled with an opposing view–a unique USA Today feature.” So you’re getting both...
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Rebranding McCain and Romney as Moderates to Facilitate a Sharp Right Turn
USA Today depicts Ted Cruz announcing his bid for the presidency. In corporate media, Democrats tend to run as centrists and lose as leftists. As I noted way back in the first Bush administration...
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Calling TPP Foes ‘Simplistic,’ USA Today Simply Gets the Numbers Wrong
USA Today (5/3/15) got its numbers seriously wrong in pushing the case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Its editorial, headlined “New Trade Deal Triggers Angry, Fact-Free Uproar,” told...
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After Labour Loses With Austerity, US Media Tell Them to Move to the Right
USA Today depicts Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron taking part in a selfie. (photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) When conservatives win elections, the US press invariably reports that the...
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The Mass Surveillance of US Public Continues as USA Today Declares It Ended
USA Today (6/3/15) had a five-column headline across the top of its front page: NSA Data Collection Ended That would be odd, since the National Security Agency exists to collect data; it’s unlikely...
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The Mass Surveillance of US Public Continues as USA Today Declares It Ended
USA Today (6/3/15) had a five-column headline across the top of its front page: NSA Data Collection Ended That would be odd, since the National Security Agency exists to collect data; it’s unlikely...
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