Joshua Cho
Joshua Cho is a journalist, recent graduate of Boston College, and former intern at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
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Views Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Journalists Need to Be Clear About a Clear Threat to Democracy When the president of the United States has: explicitly declared his intentions to withhold federal election funding from states that are trying to make it easier to vote during a pandemic; appointed a major donor to his campaign with conflicts of interest to sabotage the US Postal Service—while... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Worries About Foreign 'Hacking' of Vaccine Research Place Corporate Profits Ahead of Public Health A recent spate of reports in US media features US officials accusing Official Enemies Russia and China of “stealing” the US’s coronavirus vaccine research data. To accuse another party of “stealing” something, of course, is to imply unjust deprivation. If my wallet is stolen, it means I no longer... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Corporate Media Give Trump Powers He Doesn’t Actually Possess For many of us, the purpose of journalism is to hold power accountable by criticizing its abuses and informing the public of the truth. Indeed, many corporate journalists and social media companies criticize state media of Official Enemies TM as inherently untrustworthy , subordinate government... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 13, 2020 NYT Erases US Occupation's Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency The New York Times ' senior correspondent in Afghanistan, Mujib Mashal , somehow managed to write a 3,700+ word article "How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage" ( 5/26/20 ) that purported to explain how the Taliban managed to "outlast a superpower through nearly 19 years of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 12, 2020 Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries When an attempted invasion of Venezuela launched from the shores of Colombia was foiled on May 3, after armed commandos were intercepted at Venezuela’s coastline of La Guira, it seemed undeniable that the heavily armed men, possessing satellite phones and uniforms with the US flag emblazoned on... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 08, 2020 Why It’s Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets' The stigmatization of Asian people and their culture as “inferior” or “exotic” isn’t a new phenomenon. What is considered acceptable or “strange” meat is often the result of arbitrary cultural norms , and Chinese food has often suffered from hypocritical cultural appropriation once it became... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 03, 2020 Corporate Looting as ‘Rescue Plan,’ Robber Barons as ‘Saviors’ For a perfect illustration of how corporate media function as ruling class propaganda, watch how they spin a titanic upward redistribution of wealth as a “rescue plan” for the US economy, and paint a robber baron like US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin as a “savior” of the American public. In... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 25, 2020 Corporate Media Deny Their Own Existence, Despite Driving Biden’s Primary Victory If someone were to tell you that major and influential business sectors like the fossil fuel and health insurance industries simply don’t exist , or imply that major corporations like ExxonMobil and Cigna don’t try to manipulate public opinion and advance a political agenda in order to protect and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 16, 2020 Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Corporate Media From Crusading Against Universal Healthcare There’s nothing like a global pandemic to demonstrate that a universal single-payer healthcare system like Medicare for All is not an idealistic fantasy, but an immediate, urgent necessity. When over 16 million Americans have already filed for unemployment benefits within the last three weeks, it’s... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 04, 2020 Corporate Media Ignore International Cooperation as Shortcut to Coronavirus Vaccine When Dr. Jonas Salk was asked in a legendary interview about who owned the patent on the effective polio vaccine he and his team had developed, he acknowledged that their achievement belonged to “the people,” and likened efforts to profit off their innovation to be as unethical as trying to patent... Read more |