Massachusetts media outlets have quoted the "Committee to Protect Tips" dozens of times in 2024, letting a restaurant owner lobbyist claim to speak for restaurant workers. Meanwhile, just 3 articles have connected the lobbyist back to Darden - all online only, all just in the last 3 days.
The New York Times' John McWhorter, so quick to condemn the ârelentless assaultâ of protestersâ Israel-critical speech, applies a very different standard when the campus speech in question is racist, sexist or homophobic. fair.org/home/for-nyt...
The point of presenting Hezbollahâs role in Lebanon in the most negative possible light is, of course, to make the US/Israeli onslaught against Lebanon sound legitimate. fair.org/home/demoniz...
Matt Yglesias is objectively pro-global warming @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
danah's piece below is *so damn good* that it should be required reading for absolutely everyone with opinions on social media "harms." I wrote about it (and quoted extensively from it) on Techdirt, but go read the original. www.techdirt.com/2024/10/10/t...
CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance & climate: "Fossil fuel infrastructure & its continued expansion, this simply could not exist without underwriting by the insurance industry." fair.org/home/the-ins...
It is hard to imagine a white author as celebrated as Ta-Nehisi Coates receiving such an immediate dismissal, not just of their writing, but the very basis of their political beliefs.
Host Tony Dokoupil began the interview with an aggressive monologue that effectively dismissed Coatesâ and his worldview, painting him as a radical not worth listening to.
Framing a strike as potentially strangling the economy serves to help the reader, whose economic situation is almost certainly closer to the workers, identify instead with the multibillion-dollar logistics companies. fair.org/home/top-pap...
The more a strike affects the economy, i.e., the more effective it is, the harder corporate media try to smear workers as selfish and destructive.
This is the biggest issue to me. Some people say "well there's no harm in assuming social media is harmful," but (1) it makes parents ignore other real issues and (2) it makes kids feel shame and self-hate for things that aren't wrong (socializing with friends)
These moral panics serve no one, alienate young people and make parents more afraid www.techdirt.com/2024/10/02/n... @mmasnick.bsky.social
These days, thereâs a formula for articles pushing the unproven claims of harm from social media. Start with examples of kids harming themselves, insist (without evidence) that but for social mediaâŚ