The New York Times:
-->Our great "newspaper of record" proves once again that it favors establishment sellouts to progressive reformers. The NYT March 6 front page screams about Soviet involvement with Bernie's campaign, and for proof dredges up a picture of him visiting a Russian village in 1988. He was involved in establishing a sister city with Burlington, but who cares. He is a COMMIE!
Krugman is just as bad if you turn to the Opinion page. According to Krugman "Joe Biden is clearly in favor of progressive goals such as universal health coverage and reduced income inequality." Same as Burnie, but Biden will just get there a little slower. And yes, Krugman trots out that shopworn canard about the need for progressives to "hold his feet to the fire."
So this is "news" and "opinion" in that most corporatized publication in the empire. Why is anyone still reading this propaganda?
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-->A funny thing happened on the way to International Women's Day in the United States. First, the coverage was terrible. The NYT only refers to the day in its Fashion Section with a story entitled: "Cartier to Celebrate Women at the Expo 2020 in Dubai."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/fashion/jewelry-watches-cartier-expo-2020-dubai-women.html?searchResultPosition=7
Forbes at least brought the Women's Day event closer to home in an article entitled: "International Women’s Day Shouldn’t Be A Thing." What should it be then? Why, we are told that the celebration should be about women entrepreneurs who have gotten to be leaders of investment firms and CEOs of major companies.
The rest of the US media didn't cover this international event at all. There was Fox News' video of Melania Trump giving out "Women Courage Awards." The big winner was the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat. So much for what our corporate controlled media thinks of women's rights.
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FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting:
"The Washington Post really does not like populism. Yes, I’m talking about its news section, not its opinions pages, where populists are always bashed. This week, the Post (3/2/20) gave us a major piece telling us how Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are two sides of the same populist coin. While the piece is confused in many ways, the one point it makes very clearly is that the Washington Post really dislikes Bernie Sanders. ...
The establishment figures that the Post is unhappy the populists are rejecting are folks like former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble ($16 trillion relative to today’s economy), the collapse of which sank the US economy. They also reject people like Larry Summers, who likewise dismissed people who tried to warn of the bubble, and pushed a trade opening to China that cost millions of manufacturing workers their jobs. Those are facts, not problems of perception."
-->It is not the billionaires that progressives must overcome, but their biased media. There can be little change in our two party duopoly until the left creates a different narrative through its own print publications as well as radio and TV programs.
