The Intercept:
"Few news outlets covered the detention of Steven Donziger, who won a multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador against Chevron over the massive contamination in the Lago Agrio region and has been fighting on behalf of Indigenous people and farmers there for more than 25 years. ...
'I’m like a corporate political prisoner,' Donziger told me as we sat in his living room recently. ...Donziger is not exaggerating. As he was arguing the case against Chevron in Ecuador back in 2009, the company expressly said its long-term strategy was to demonize him. And since then, Chevron has continued its all-out assault on Donziger in what’s become one of the most bitter and drawn-out cases in the history of environmental law. Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him."
-->The legal assault against climate activist lawyers didn't make the cut for the NYT. Big Oil won heart of the "Grey Lady" a long time ago.
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FAIR:
"As the Iowa caucuses approach, corporate media are beginning to panic.
'Running Bernie Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity,' insisted Jonathan Chait in New York magazine (1/28/20). The New York Times‘ Paul Krugman (1/20/20)—among many others—revived the 2016 media trend of tarring Sanders as 'Trumpian.'
The Never Trumper holdouts—an increasingly endangered species—are as scared as the establishment Democrats. 'Bernie Can’t Win,' David 'Axis of Evil' Frum wrote pleadingly in the Atlantic (1/27/20). 'Bernie Sanders’s Trump-Like
Campaign Is a Disaster for Democrats,' cried the Washington Post‘s Jennifer Rubin (1/27/20). 'Anyone But Trump? Not So Fast,' counseled the New York Times‘ Bret Stephens (1/24/20).
-->The mainstream media, securely in the pocket of the very rich, will never give Bernie a chance. And that will be true in the general election as well. The elites would rather have Trump as president, and the NYT, that handmaiden of the cleptocracy, will go right along.
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The Guardian UK:
"Chilean anti-rape anthem becomes international feminist phenomenon:
The rapist is you.
The rapist is you.
It’s the cops,
The judges,
The state,
The president.
The oppressive state is a rapist.
The oppressive state is a rapist.
The rapist is you
The rapist is you"
-->The NYT waited a whole month to print this story. And then it appeared on the "Opinions Page" rather than as a news report. Also, references to the Santiago's National Stadium, the prison and torture camp established by Augusto Pinochet, were left out. Why remind readers that the US was behind the coup that put this murderer in place.
