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Adam Johnson
Media and political analysis from Adam Johnson (with contributions from Sarah Lazare)
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4 Major Plot Holes in the “Organized Crime Rings Are Closing Walgreens!” Narrative15 Oct 2021 • 9 min read • 17 8Subscribe now Based on the torrent of outrage the last time I wrote about The Walgreens Shoplifting Story—in the San Francisco Chronicle, no less—I can honestly say that the story has morphed from tro...
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The Real Estate Industry Is Successfully Lobbying Local Media to Ditch the Term “Landlord” for “Housing Provider”11 Oct 2021 • 5 min read • 25 4Subscribe now Last week, a curious exchange between a Chicago housing advocate and a local Chicago NBC reporter on Twitter caught my eye: Tom Jones @TomJonesNBC@cholent_lover @LisaParkerNBC For this s...
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The Actual Human Stakes of the Reconciliation Bill Are Being Ignored in Favor of “Left vs Moderate’ Horse Race Coverage05 Oct 2021 • 6 min read • 19 2Subscribe now After weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of the “$3.5 trillion” reconciliation bill (or more accurately, $350 billion a year over 10 years), the average media consumer could not be blamed fo...
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Lockheed Martin Is Lobbying Against Biden's Reconciliation Bill While Pushing Targeted Bailout of Weapons Industry04 Oct 2021 • 5 min read • 8 0Subscribe now The weapons company Lockheed Martin is part of a corporate group that is aggressively lobbying against a proposed corporate tax increase that would help pay for the $3.5 trillion ($350 b...
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After This Week’s Sinema-Manchin Nihilist Standoff, Let Us Finally Retire the Label “Moderate”01 Oct 2021 • 4 min read • 14 1Subscribe now Finally this week, mainstream Democratic pundits began revolting against the label “moderate.” After “moderates” Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin’s petty and bad-faith obstructio...
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Pressure Mounts on CNN to Disclose Business Relationship with UAE30 Sep 2021 • 8 min read • 8 0Subscribe now A new report from Responsible Statecraft’s Eli Clifton and a pressure campaign from a collection of activist groups has put CNN’s sycophantic coverage of the UAE in the spotlight as the ...
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Five Tropes Local TV News Uses to Dehumanize Homeless People27 Sep 2021 • 8 min read • 21 2Subscribe now It’s understood that American right-wing media is now defined by overt white nationalists who regularly traffic in sensationalist, dehumanizing coverage of the homeless. In addition to t...
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Mike Rowe’s New Show Is His Slickest Koch Commercial Yet22 Sep 2021 • 4 min read • 22 0There was a Reuters headline last June during the Peruvian presidential election that caused a great deal of confusion. It read, “Peru markets and miners fear Castillo.” For anyone with a passing know...
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The Existence of Human Beings Is Not a “Crisis”—Our Nativist Response Is21 Sep 2021 • 4 min read • 24 2photo by David Peinado Romero Subscribe now In American media, the mere existence of migrants is, very often, curiously referred to as an “immigration crisis.” NBC’s vertical is “immigration border cr...
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The EU is Praised for Vaccine “Donations.” Behind Closed Doors, It Quietly Blocks Poor Countries' Efforts to Increase Vaccine Manufacturing.20 Sep 2021 • 5 min read • 10 1photo by Nicole Mess On September 14, the European Union went to the World Trade Organization and rejected a proposal from the Global South to suspend patent rules for the Covid vaccine. The next day,...
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