Common Dreams:
"Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in 'Stealth Bailout' Report. ...
Reporting Friday from Bloomberg News showed that '$1.9 billion in CARES Act tax benefits are being claimed by at least 37 oil companies, service firms, and contractors'—what watchdog group Documented senior researcher Jesse Coleman described as a 'stealth bailout' of the climate-killing industry.
'In the name of small business, we're shoveling out billions of dollars to big corporations and rich guys,' Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, told Bloomberg.
-->This discouraging news was kept from readers of the NYT, a newspaper that always gives Big Oil a break in its reporting.
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Common Dreams:
"Esteemed medical journal The Lancet on Friday took an unusual step towards calling on American voters to remove President Donald Trump from office in November, condemning the Trump administration's 'incoherent' response to the coronavirus pandemic and expressing shock at the CDC's inability to cope with the public health crisis.
The journal's frustration with Trump centered on the president's downplaying of the pandemic and his refusal to coordinate a robust national effort of social distancing, lockdown orders, and a testing regime to stem the Covid-19 outbreak.
'The administration is obsessed with magic bullets—vaccines, new medicines, or a hope that the virus will simply disappear,' wrote the editors. 'But only a steadfast reliance on basic public health principles, like test, trace, and isolate, will see the emergency brought to an end, and this requires an effective national public health agency" ".
-->Why wouldn't this call by one of the most influential medical journals in the world be covered by the NYT? Yes, it gets a one sentence commentary in an opinions piece, but that is hardly sufficient. As much as the NYT hates Trump, our "newspaper of record" thinks it more important to protect America's image in the world.
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Vice:
"The US Senate has voted to give law enforcement agencies access to web browsing data without a warrant, dramatically expanding the government’s surveillance powers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The power grab was led by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell as part of a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, which gives federal agencies broad domestic surveillance powers. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Steve Daines (R-MT) attempted to remove the expanded powers from the bill with a bipartisan amendment.
But in a shock upset, the privacy-preserving amendment fell short by a single vote after several senators who would have voted 'Yes' failed to show up to the session, including Bernie Sanders."
-->The NYT covered this story with the headline: "Senate Approves Surveillance Bill With Sharper Privacy Safeguards." Sharper privacy safeguards? So much for the NYT being interested in web privacy.
