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 Sunday, November 25, 2018 NPR Infomercial for Its Sponsor Amazon Omits Labor and Environmental Criticisms There are dozens of reports detailing how Amazon ’s shipping policies negatively effects both the environment and workers , but one wouldn’t have any idea either was a concern after listening to NPR ’s sexed-up report ( Morning Edition , 11/21/18 ), “Optimized Prime: How AI and Anticipation Power... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Blaming Saudis for Corrupting Otherwise Human Rights–Loving US As FAIR has noted for years, one of the primary ideological functions of US corporate media is to maintain the mythology that the US is a noble protector of democracy and arbiter of human rights. When material facts—like wars of aggression, massive spying regimes, the funding and arming right-wing... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Action Alert: It's Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen As FAIR has noted before ( 1/8/18, 3/20/18 ), to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the poorest country in the Arab world is simply a non-issue. On July 2, a year had passed since the cable network’s last segment mentioning US participation... Read more |
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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 |