One City, Two Languages
“Faces and Places,” says a link on the website of the El Paso Times, a venerable daily newspaper on the U.S./Mexico border. Click and you’re transported to photos of the community’s...
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‘It’s a Way to Ignore the Failures That Exist in the US’
Janine Jackson interviewed Laura Carlsen about the arrest of Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for the January 15, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Laura...
View ArticleOn Boston Hate-Jock’s History of ‘Incendiary Comments’
Reporting on how “Jay Severin, the fiery right-wing talkshow host on Boston’s WTKK-FM radio station, was suspended yesterday,” (5/1/09), the Boston Globe‘s David Abel lists just a few of the “fiery”...
View ArticleOn Corporate Media’s ‘Scoop’-Driven Xenophobia
“If media reports are to be believed,” Gabriel Arana of the Nation writes (5/27/09), “an Armageddon-like rash of drug-related violence–unlike any seen since ‘Miami Vice years of the 1980s‘–has crossed...
View ArticleMexico Electoral Fraud ‘in the Dust of History’ at NYT
Veteran independent Mexico reporter John Ross (CounterPunch.com, 6/28/09) wants to know which countries come to mind when thinking about “a stolen election by an entrenched regime,” “demands for a...
View ArticleSwine Flu ‘a Case Study in Reckless Journalism’
Writing that “the swine flu outbreak that wrecked Mexico’s economy this spring, and that the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic last month, may become a case study in reckless...
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‘Searing Memories of Defaults’–and Selective Memory at the New York Times
I was struck by one sentence in Damien Cave’s New York Times analysis piece (10/16/13) on international reactions to the possibility of a US default: Many people in countries like Greece, Argentina,...
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Time Puffs Mexico’s President
Just in time for Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico, the new president of that country, Enrique Peña Nieto, was splashed on the cover of Time magazine’s international editions with the headline “Saving...
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ISIS in Texas?! ABC Fails an Easy Factcheck
A politician making a ludicrous claim that has no basis in fact about a major story of the day should be an easy factcheck. But ABC’s This Week (10/13/14) reminded us that corporate news outlets are...
View ArticleOne City, Two Languages
“Faces and Places,” says a link on the website of the El Paso Times, a venerable daily newspaper on the U.S./Mexico border. Click and you’re transported to photos of the community’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘It’s a Way to Ignore the Failures That Exist in the US’
Janine Jackson interviewed Laura Carlsen about the arrest of Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for the January 15, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Laura...
View ArticleSwine Flu ‘a Case Study in Reckless Journalism’
Writing that “the swine flu outbreak that wrecked Mexico’s economy this spring, and that the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic last month, may become a case study in reckless...
View ArticleOne City, Two Languages
“Faces and Places,” says a link on the website of the El Paso Times, a venerable daily newspaper on the U.S./Mexico border. Click and you’re transported to photos of the community’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Searing Memories of Defaults’–and Selective Memory at the New York Times
I was struck by one sentence in Damien Cave’s New York Times analysis piece (10/16/13) on international reactions to the possibility of a US default: Many people in countries like Greece, Argentina,...
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Time Puffs Mexico’s President
Just in time for Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico, the new president of that country, Enrique Peña Nieto, was splashed on the cover of Time magazine’s international editions with the headline “Saving...
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ISIS in Texas?! ABC Fails an Easy Factcheck
A politician making a ludicrous claim that has no basis in fact about a major story of the day should be an easy factcheck. But ABC’s This Week (10/13/14) reminded us that corporate news outlets are...
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‘It’s a Way to Ignore the Failures That Exist in the US’
Janine Jackson interviewed Laura Carlsen about the arrest of Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for the January 15, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Laura...
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For WaPo, Subsidizing Bus Fare Is a Lot Like Giving the Rich $5 Trillion
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador “bears more than a passing political resemblance to President Trump,” according to the Washington Post editorial page (6/17/18). According to...
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In Wake of AMLO Victory, US Media Fear Chavismo and Hope for...
For the New York Times (7/1/18), the election of Lopez Obrador brings “a sense of economic nationalism that some fear could reverse important gains of the last 25 years.” Neoliberal capitalist dogma...
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Social Democracy or Barbarism? Barbarism, Please - Political commentators see...
One would be hard-pressed to find two newly elected world leaders more different than Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. The former is a...
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