Justin Anderson
Justin Anderson is a writer based in New York City.
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Views Friday, November 23, 2018 Minimal Media Attention Helped Sink Crucial Climate Initiatives Climate change took a backseat to other issues in this year’s midterm elections, and humanity may end up paying the price. The majority of climate change-related ballot measures failed. In their minimal and skewed coverage of climate change issues, the media deserve a share of the blame for these losses. Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 01, 2018 Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Hate Plays Into Hands of Right-Wing Media Media coverage of tragedies like shootings and bombings is frequently politicized, particularly when jihadism is a factor in perpetrators’ motives. In its coverage of the recent outbreak of conspiracy-fueled far-right wing terrorism, however, many media outlets have rushed to depoliticize such acts... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 12, 2018 WaPo Picks a Side in Maryland Race—the Side That’s Offering Billions to Amazon Ben Jealous, the Democratic candidate to be Maryland’s governor, is hoping to pull off a big upset in the November midterm elections against Republican incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan. If he wins, Jealous will be the state’s first African-American governor, and just the third elected African-American... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Establishment Media Shy Away From Claims of Perjury by Kavanaugh Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subject to a wringer of testy Senate confirmation hearings last week. The current DC Circuit Court judge has come under fire from Democrats on the Judiciary Committee for his stances against the landmark pro-abortion decision Roe v. Wade , affirmative... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party, sometimes self-identified as democratic socialists and exemplified by rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and associated with groups like Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution , the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), took... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 01, 2018 Reporting on Medicare for All Makes Media Forget How Math Works “Medicare for All,” a federally funded universal healthcare plan championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont–Ind.), has quickly become a key issue for progressive voters evaluating Democratic Party candidates for the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential race. The plan would provide... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 23, 2018 Key Fact Obscured in Immigration Coverage: MS-13 Was Made in USA In a piece for the Atlantic ( 6/20/18 ), former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum countered statements by MSNBC ’s Chris Hayes, in which Hayes described a harrowing first-person account of a mother forcibly separated from her child at the US/Mexico border as reading like “the literature of a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 28, 2018 The Economist’s Premature Obituary for the Sanders Movement Earlier this month, the US politics opinion column of the Economist ( 6/7/18 ), pseudonymously written by “Lexington,” was accompanied by a cartoon depicting Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind.–Vermont) with a comically oversized hook nose. Perhaps cartoonist KAL was unaware of the connotations of the hook... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 25, 2018 Focus on Pruitt’s Scandals Obscures Environmental Degradation Under Trump Scott Pruitt sure is busy these days. The climate change-denying head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been renting out a DC condo on the cheap from an energy lobbyist ; installing a $43,000 soundproof booth for his telephone calls; passing out improper pay raises to aides; jet-setting... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? Facebook is under fire for ( among other things ) its involvement with Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics firm funded by hedge fund billionaire and major Republican party donor Robert Mercer and formerly led by President Trump’s ex–campaign manager and strategist Steve Bannon. Cambridge... Read more |