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Media Turns Random Trump Campaign Rally in Detroit Into “Trump Standing With Striking Autoworkers” Headlines
Giving a campaign speech vaguely in the proximity of strikes is not showing support for strikers.
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Adam Johnson
NYT Runs Pro-Saudi Op-ed Without Disclosing Op-ed Writer's Think Tank is Funded by Saudi Arabia
A useful window in how "think tanks” function as influence laundromats. On 9/11, no less.
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MSNBC, CNN, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News Ignore Extraordinary “Cop City” RICO Indictment
A sprawling attack on free press, free assembly, and free speech is met with silence from much of the mainstream media.
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August 2023
Corporate America’s Attempt to Rebrand Centrist Politics for Zoomers
ExxonMobil, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Walmart, and Amazon are funding attempts to make boring pro-corporate Democrats fun and youthful.
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Our ‘Fines Only’ Approach to Child Labor Exploitation Exposes Tough on Crime Crowd's Double Standard
The thought of incarcerating corporate lawbreakers isn't even broached, much less considered by otherwise pro-prison Biden, Republicans and Democratic…
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Biden Administration Funding and Training Saudi Death Squads Exposes Lie of ‘Defensive’ Arms Sales
Reading reports in NYT, AP, and VOA about a bombshell Human Rights Watch report, one would think the mass killing Saudi border guards funded, armed, and…
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Washington Post Continues to Lie About Social Security and Life Expectancy
In their decades-long quest to gut welfare for the poor, the Post tells blatant falsehoods about how long the poor live after “retirement.”
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July 2023
“AI” Hype as Pretext for Labor Misclassification
Beware the risks of using shiny "AI" sleight-of-hand to simply re-define labor and pay it less.
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Anderson Cooper’s Feigned Indignation at the Idea the U.S. Commits War Crimes Shows Primary Ideological Function of U.S. Media
An object lesson in tedious gatekeeping and fake outrage.
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June 2023
Note from Adam at The Column
Dear subscribers, Thank you as always for supporting The Column. Having the ability to write this substack is a privilege and very special to me. I…
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Media Frames UPS Strike as Harming You, the “Consumer” and Protagonist of Reality
Turning labor reporting into pseudo-Service Journalism does nothing but build public contempt for unions.
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US Media Hype Yet Another Fake “ISIS” Plot, This Time Targeting a Teenager With History of Mental Problems
It’s 2023, how are we still doing this?
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