I’ve already written a fair amount about the 2016 presidential race, particularly the Democratic primary. I also imagine that lots of folks are probably exhausted from wall-to-wall Trump coverage. “He’s a demagogue!”; “He’s speaks for a disempowered bloc of struggling white Americans!”… Continue Reading
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Why Polls Undercount Sanders, And Why He Can Win New York
By now it is widely understood among Sanders supporters that the mainstream media has been relentlessly pro-Clinton in its coverage of the Democratic race.… Continue Reading
Media’s pro-Clinton Bias in Democratic Primary Fails the Public
Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist, intellectual, and political activist, wrote in his seminal book “Manufacturing Consent,” that the mass media “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function,… Continue Reading