The NYT:
"A Late Changed, and Fatal Flaws, in a Boeing Jet Design" reads the NYT headline.
-->This long article tries to pinpoint just what happened with the crashes of two 737 Max airplanes that killed 346 people in two major disasters. There are a lot of reasons, of course. What only gets mentioned at the end of long lists of problems is the F.A.A. and its failure to regulate the airline industry. We are offered wishy-washy explanations like: "The disasters might have been avoided, if employees and regulators had a better understanding of MCAS [software system]," and "Regulators didn’t conduct a formal safety assessment of the new version ..."
The NYT mentions at the end that a former F.A.A. employee was Boeing's "primary liaison with the F.A.A." but never suggests that this might have been part of the problem, the revolving door of former government employees and the collapse of regulatory oversight.
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Common Dreams:
"Providing yet another example of how the billionaire Koch brothers use their immense wealth to influence university research and spread their corporate-friendly ideology, a report released Monday detailed how George Washington University's ostensibly neutral Regulatory Studies Center is in fact a 'key cog' in the Koch family's fight to slash government regulations designed to protect workers and the planet. ...
'The center is a microcosm of the strategy that Charles Koch has honed since the 1970s to finance deceptively named university centers to generate faux scholarship in support of Koch's anti-regulatory views,' [Taylor Lincoln, research director for Public Citizen] said in a statement.
According to the report, much of RSC's work revolves around providing 'scholarly rationales against government regulation' of corporate America, with a particular focus on the fossil fuel industry—where Koch Industries makes much of its profits while financing campaigns to spread doubt about the reality and urgency of the climate crisis.
-->Contrast this story with the coverage of the Koch Brothers by the NYT and AP. The NYT headline reads, "Koch Tackles Poverty by Coaching Nonprofits on Business"
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The Guardian:
"Over the past year, evidence of Monsanto’s deceptive efforts to defend the safety of its top-selling Roundup herbicide have been laid bare for all to see. Through three civil trials, the public release of internal corporate communications has revealed conduct that all three juries have found so unethical as to warrant punishing punitive damage awards.
Much attention has been paid to Monsanto conversations in which company scientists casually discuss ghostwriting scientific papers and suppressing science that conflicts with corporate assertions of Roundup’s safety. There has also been public outrage over internal records illustrating cozy relationships with friendly regulators which border on – and possibly cross into – collusion.
But these once-confidential Monsanto documents demonstrate that the deception has gone much deeper. In addition to the manipulation of science and of regulators, the company’s most insidious deceit may be its strategic manipulation of the media, according to the records.
-->The NYT and most US media concentrated on how the juries of three cvil trials found that Roundup caused cancer. No mention of Monsanto's scientific and media manipulation to keep selling Roundup, one of the world's most insidious carcinogen.
