Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a New York-based journalist, a contributing analyst for FAIR.org, and co-host of the Citations Needed podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @adamjohnsonnyc
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Views Saturday, June 09, 2018 Media Treat Trump Administration's Partisan Fear-Mongering as Objective 'Government' Report On Tuesday, dozens of media outlets broke what at first seemed to be a major story about “the government” announcing that Social Security and Medicare will be broke in less than 20 years: Medicare Will Become Insolvent in 2026, US Government Says ( AP , 6/5/18 ) Medicare’s Trust Fund Will Be... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 01, 2018 WaPo Editors: We Have to Help Destroy Yemen to Save It Over the past year, the Washington Post editorial board has routinely ignored the US’s involvement in the siege of Yemen—a bombing and starvation campaign that has killed over 15,000 civilians and left roughly a million with cholera. As FAIR noted last November ( 11/20/17 ), the Washington Post ran... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 21, 2018 Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government Influence Facebook announced Thursday it was partnering with DC think tank the Atlantic Council to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference.” The details of the plan are vague, but Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab wrote in a non-bylined Medium post ( 5/17/18 ) that the goal was to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 16, 2018 NYT Edit Board Are Last Humans on Earth Who Believe US Neutral in Israel/Palestine Conflict The fact that the United States favors Israel in its decades-long “conflict” with the Palestinians is not a subjective or abstract question; it’s a well-established empirical fact. The US gives over $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel (more than the US spends on aid for the last seven... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 10, 2018 CNN’s Iran Fearmongering Would Make More Sense Coming Directly From Pentagon Why doesn’t CNN Defense Department reporter Barbara Starr just leave CNN and instead work directly for the Trump DoD? On Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran deal (formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), Starr ( 5/8/18 ) rushed to publish an... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 08, 2018 What Do US Pundits Know About North Korea That 88% of South Koreans Don’t? According to a recent poll , 88 percent of the South Korean public viewed the recent peace summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in as a success. In addition, 65 percent of South Koreans trust Kim Jong-un on his pledge to denuclearize, and Moon Jae-in’s... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 24, 2018 MSNBC’S Creepy Comcast Commercial Is Sinclair Lite After the justified uproar over pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group forcing its scores of affiliates to humiliate themselves by reading an on-air script condemning “misleading” news, one would think other media outlets would be a little more careful not to mimic such behavior. Nonetheless, MSNBC —... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 20, 2018 Public Radio’s McCarthyite Smear of Black Activists Shows Danger of Russia Panic For over a year, outlets from FAIR ( 8/24/16 ) to TruthDig ( 1/7/17 ) to The Nation ( 8/7/17 ) to The Intercept ( 2/12/18 ) have been warning about the pitfalls of nonstop Russia Is Everywhere and Out to Get Us coverage. The Russians are “stoking discord” and “sowing unrest” and infiltrating online... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Out of 26 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Zero Opposed A survey by FAIR of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria. Twenty supported the strikes, while six were ambiguous as to whether or not the bombing was advisable. The remaining 74 issued no opinion about Trump’s... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Democrats, Too, Love Trump's Wars American politicians on both sides of the aisle love war. On Monday, an In These Times survey found that 92 percent of U.S. Democratic and Independent senators did not mount meaningful opposition to Donald Trump’s April 13 air strikes against the Syrian government. The primary point of contention... Read more |