US Media Issues
New York Times prescription for “When the Doctor Is Not Needed”
By Kate Randall, December 19, 2012
In the latest installment of its editorial campaign for sweeping cuts in health care, the Times promotes patient “self care” and “community aides” as substitutes for doctors.
Letters on the British royal pregnancy
December 8, 2012
Letters in response to the December 7 perspective, “The American establishment and the British royal pregnancy.”
The American establishment and the British royal pregnancy
By David Walsh, December 7, 2012
The announcement that Kate Middleton, wife of Britain’s Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge, is expecting a baby has produced unseemly squeals of delight from the American media and establishment generally.
Obama administration to allow further US media consolidation
By David Maynard, December 5, 2012
The Obama administration is quietly planning to pass changes proposed under Bush and permit even greater media consolidation.
New York Times gives glimpse of sectarian bloodbath being prepared by Syria intervention
By Bill Van Auken, August 8, 2012
An article published last week in the New York Times on the spillover of sectarian tensions from Syria into Turkey belies the “democratic” and “humanitarian” pretexts for the ever more violent drive for regime change by the US and its allies.
The New York Times hails terror bombing in Damascus
By Alex Lantier, July 21, 2012
The Times’ response to the bombings in Damascus epitomizes the Orwellian character of the American media’s coverage of the war in Syria.
The New York Times makes the “moral case” for drones
By David Walsh, July 19, 2012
”The Moral Case for Drones,” published in the New York Times on July 14, seeks to justify the assassination program run out of the Obama White House.
New Zealand: New evidence about US operation to shut down Megaupload
By John Braddock, July 7, 2012
White House logs demonstrate that meetings took place between Hollywood studio executives and US Vice President Joe Biden six months before the raids on Megaupload.
New York Times lauds Supreme Court’s “exquisite delicacy” in health care decision
By Joseph Kishore, June 30, 2012
The specialty of the Times is to serve up the lying hypocrisy of the liberal bourgeois establishment, which is then transmitted in various forms down through the “left” defenders of the Democratic Party.
Paul Krugman shills for Obama and capitalism
By Patrick Martin, June 5, 2012
The liberal economist and New York Times columnist has become a leading media apologist for Obama’s right-wing, pro-corporate economic policies.
New York Times beats drum for war in Syria … and beyond
By Patrick Martin, April 23, 2012
The New York Times is reprising its role in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq, mounting an editorial campaign for war against Syria.
US television personality Mike Wallace dead at 93
By David Walsh, April 12, 2012
Mike Wallace, the longtime American television journalist best known for his almost four decades on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” died April 7 at the age of 93.
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