Islamophobia Still Rising-With the Right’s Help - The mainstreaming of...
Graffiti on the Islamic Center of America–Photo Credit: Center for American Progress When the Center for American Progress (CAP) released the report Fear, Inc. in September (8/26/11), alleging that...
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Richard Cohen–Photo Credit: Washington Post The popular media theme that Iran “can’t be trusted” is often presented as being based on “intelligence” about the country. But sometimes pundits cut right...
View ArticleIslamophobia, Antisemitism and the Demonized ‘Other’ - Parallels among...
The Buffalo News‘ Adam Zyglis’ depiction of Islam mirrors the Egyptian Al-Goumhuriyya‘s portrayal of the villainous Jew. Republican hopeful Mitt Romney is portrayed by online bigots as a Manchurian...
View ArticleVijay Prashad on “Muslim Rage,” Imara Jones on 47 percent and race
PlayStop pop out X Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and angry demonstrations in several other Muslim countries, corporate media are...
View ArticleWhy Do They Hate Us Back? - 'Muslim Rage' is really no mystery
U.S. coverage of Islam and Muslim-majority nations is such a carnival of distortion, double standards and bigotry that it’s sometimes hard to believe that journalists inhabit the same planet as the...
View ArticleDean Baker on Social Security, Laila Al-Arian on Homeland and Islamophobia
PlayStop pop out X Download the show This week on CounterSpin: You may have heard that, in the discussion to avert the dread “fiscal cliff,” the White House has offered to, adopt a “chained Consumer...
View ArticleComic Book Superheroes Face Their Greatest Challenge! - Stuggling to stay...
Despite the fact that you can’t turn on the TV without being reminded about the existence of superhero movies, the original medium for superhero stories —comic books—has been in significant decline...
View Article‘Terror Returns’–Along With Media Fixations - Boston bombings revive fear of...
It is not surprising that the Boston Marathon bombing was treated as an event of enormous significance. Beyond the dramatic manhunt, the story had obvious political dimensions. The two explosions were...
View ArticleA Media Microscope on Islam-Linked Violence - Selective reporting...
Adapted from juancole.com The murder of British soldier Sgt. Lee Rigby on a London street in May received massive U.S. media attention. The brazenness of the attackers—who allegedly struck Rigby with a...
View ArticleOn Homeland, Islam Means Terror - TV’s one major Muslim character is a secret...
Mainstream popular culture in the period since 9/11 has remained slavishly faithful to the official narratives of the war on terror. While at the margins—for example, in underground hip-hop—a radical...
View ArticlePolitico Finds ‘Capital of American Jihad’–Based on 2 Cases, 6 Years and 268...
Politico (7/23/15) finds the “capital of American jihad” based on two examples–or maybe one. Roughly 10 hours after another white, apparently racist Christian senselessly opened fire in a public...
View ArticleJesse Hagopian on Seattle vs. Education ‘Reform,’ Rachel Meeropol on Justice...
PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: Corporate education “reform,” with its focus on high-stakes testing, charter schools and teachers unions as the cause of whatever ails, is popular...
View ArticleRemembering Victims of Terror–and Forgetting Some Others
From the CBS News website, at least seven hours after it had been pointed out that the Charlie Hebdo massacre was not the worst terror attack in Europe since 2005. Here’s “former CIA deputy director...
View ArticleArun Kundnani on Islamophobia & the ‘War on Terror,’ Keane Bhatt on a Tale of...
PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: Alleged San Bernardino killers Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik did not pledge allegiance to ISIS on social media, the FBI now says, but no matter:...
View ArticleNYT Looks at the Political Exploitation of White Supremacism–but Not Too Hard
The New York Times (7/13/16) had a piece headlined “For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance.” As FAIR contributing analyst Adam Johnson put it on Twitter (7/13/16), “NYT...
View ArticleACTION ALERT: Tell CNN to Stop Using Trump Propaganda Term ‘Terror-Prone...
CNN (1/28/17) normalizing Trump’s xenophobia. CNN is uncritically adopting the Donald Trump administration’s preferred label for Muslim nations caught under its arbitrary ban: “terror-prone countries.”...
View ArticleA Lesson Media Missed About the Dangers of Scapegoating
US news outlets were six times more interested in Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (left) than in Alexandre Bissonnette–even though Bissonnette is accused of killing six times as many people. If you were...
View ArticleHow Corporate Media Paved the Way for Trump’s Muslim Ban
NBC News (1/25/17) covers Donald Trump signing the immigration ban. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations justifiably led to much outcry from...
View ArticleJack Shaheen, Vital Critic of Denigrating Images
Jack Shaheen (1935-2017) Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims as backward and violent pollute the minds of many and help fuel continuing militarism in the Mideast by the US government. The critical...
View ArticleAzeem Ibrahim on Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing
PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link Rohingya refugees (cc photo: Jordi Bernabeu Farrús) This week on CounterSpin: A human rights nightmare continues to unfold in Myanmar, as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya...
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