How Politico and the New York Times pass off hawkish opinions as facts
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
Politico is hyping a ‘threat’ that may or may not be happening, but even if it was, there’s no need to hit the panic button.
The paper of record continues to offer shoddy reporting on the JCPOA.
Baseless claims that US journalists helped launder about the Associated Press and Hamas prompted a right-wing smear campaign.
Bret Stephens promised to disclose the affiliation if there was any ‘overlap’ with subjects he writes about for the Times.
The 60 Minutes anchor repeatedly tried to bait the secretary of state into taking a more militaristic approach.
It’s easy to distract Washington reporters from the realities of high stakes diplomacy.
The piece opposed Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal and originally didn’t disclose the author’s financial stake in that view.
The military doesn’t make US foreign policy decisions and there’s a reason for that.
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
Recent events in central Asia and western Africa have had a major impact on world power geopolitics.
A prominent NYT journalist got called out for sloppy reporting on Iran’s nuclear program; but the offenses go far beyond the paper of record.
We learned this week that Trump asked for plans to bomb Iran, but the full scope of the issue went largely unaddressed.
Reporters are fascinated by a weapon that purportedly results in fewer instances of collateral damage, but its existence as a byproduct of endless war is often overlooked.
Chris Kitze helped get NBC online and pumped out some birther conspiracies and UFO hoo-hah. Then he joined The Epoch Times, one of the loudest voices in the pro-Trump mediasphere.
Out of context whispers of intelligence are like catnip to reporters and sometimes high ranking military officials weaponize it to advance their preferred policy positions.
The word “historic” gets tossed around to describe carefully scripted performances, “pseudo-events,” that we choose to treat as the stuff of history.
The New York Times published an op-ed by FDD staffer Richard Goldberg and didn’t bother to tell anyone that FDD paid him a salary while working for Trump’s National Security Council.