Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR):
"Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims. 

As coronavirus ravages the world, Cuba has exhibited disproportionate heroism, deploying medical personnel to at least 14 countries thus far to battle the pandemic—including to Italy, which has been particularly devastated. The response is in keeping with Cuba’s decades-long tradition of 'doctors, not bombs,' which has seen the tiny island nation dispatch tens of thousands of medics across the globe to combat everything from Ebola to more mundane diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. The Cuban approach stands in marked contrast to the modus operandi of the global superpower and Cuba’s primary antagonist, the United States, a country with an established predilection for bombing rather than saving people.

Cuba’s coronavirus performance is a welcome bit of uplifting news in an otherwise mostly dismal international panorama. Lest anyone start feeling too inspired by the idea of humanity, however, sectors of the US corporate media are dutifully standing by to burst the bubble."

-->Our mainstream media is having a field day attacking Cuba for sending doctors abroad to fight the epidemic. But the US media doesn't have much to say about this country's embargo of medical supplies to countries on the Pentagon's hit list, like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran.

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Common Dreams:
"Analysis Reveals 'Rotten, Un-American Giveaway' GOP Buried in COVID-19 Relief Package to Overwhelmingly Benefit Millionaires. Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics expressed outrage Tuesday after a nonpartisan congressional body found that nearly 82% of benefits from a Republican tax provision in the most recent coronavirus relief package will go to the nation's millionaires and billionaires and cost taxpayers an estimated $90 billion this year alone.

'This analysis shows that while Democrats fought for unemployment insurance and small business relief, a top priority of President Trump and his allies in Congress was another massive tax cut for the wealthy,' [Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse] said in a statement. 'Congress should repeal this rotten, un-American giveaway and use the revenue to help workers battling through this crisis.' "

-->Trillions of dollars going to the richest of Americans never bothers the NYT very much. It didn't report this analysis. 

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Huffington Post:
"WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, according to top Republicans with knowledge of the payments.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump, wife of middle son Eric Trump, are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.

They were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by campaign manager Bradley Parscale through his company rather than directly by either the campaign or the party in order to avoid public reporting requirements."

-->This is just routine corruption at the base of our political system. Mainstream media, including the NYT, isn't interested.