Jim Naureckas - Archive

Rumsfeld Remembered as ‘Complex,’ ‘Energetic’—Not as Killer of Multitudes By Jim Naureckas, July 06, 2021
Billionaires Buying Up Media Outlets: They Think It Would Be Fun to Run a Newspaper By Jim Naureckas, September 25, 2018
How Did Benghazi Become a Ruin? NYT Ignores US Role—in Multiple Media By Jim Naureckas, May 05, 2018
A Tribute to Robert Parry: Independent Journalism at Its Best By Jim Naureckas, January 31, 2018
US Missile Defense Will Protect You From North Korea By Jim Naureckas, July 18, 2017
How Trump’s ‘Chief Strategist’ Provided a ‘Platform for the Alt-Right’ By Jim Naureckas, November 19, 2016
5,337 U.S. Airstrikes against Syria: When Is “Direct Military Intervention” Not Direct Military Intervention? By Jim Naureckas, September 30, 2016
‘What Is Aleppo?’ Asks Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson–and NYT Gives Three Wrong Answers By Jim Naureckas, September 09, 2016
NYT: Corbyn Has Marginalized Britain’s Labour Party With His Popular Positions By Jim Naureckas, September 08, 2016
Nice Attacks: A Mass Murderer Becomes a ‘Terrorist’–Based on Ethnicity, Not Evidence By Jim Naureckas, July 24, 2016
Media Bias: AP’s Premature Call for Clinton Does Disservice to Democracy By Jim Naureckas, June 08, 2016
Friedman in the New York Times Goes After Donald Trump: Hey, Massive Bombing Was MY Idea! By Jim Naureckas, December 10, 2015
Media Disinformation: Pentagon Indebted for “The Thanksgiving Turkey” The Washington Post Gave Its Readers By Jim Naureckas, November 27, 2015
Two Surprise Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. But Only Trump Fascinates the Media By Jim Naureckas, August 22, 2015
At New York Observer, Trump’s Too Close to Cover–but Promoting Publisher’s Real Estate Is No Problem By Jim Naureckas, August 03, 2015
Mental Illness Doesn’t Explain Mass Violence–but Neither Does “Islamic Extremism” By Jim Naureckas, July 22, 2015
Iran Doesn’t Trust US Inspectors–and Shouldn’t By Jim Naureckas, July 21, 2015
Everyone Gets Cosmetic Procedures, Says Time–and by “Everyone,” They Mean Almost No One By Jim Naureckas, July 01, 2015
NPR Celebrates Fast-Track Victory With an All-Corporate Lobbyist Segment By Jim Naureckas, June 30, 2015
That Most Terrorists Aren’t Muslim May ‘Come as a Surprise’–If You Get Your News from Corporate Media By Jim Naureckas, June 26, 2015
Don’t Say “Terrorist” About “White People Like Ourselves”: Washington Post By Jim Naureckas, June 23, 2015
Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP): Scapegoating Labor for Fast Track’s Defeat By Jim Naureckas, June 18, 2015
At CBS, CIA + GOP = “All Segments of American Life” By Jim Naureckas, June 02, 2015
The New York Times Scrapes the Bottom to Argue “Democrats Pulled Too Far Left” By Jim Naureckas, May 29, 2015
Associated Press Calls ‘Compromise’ a Section of the PATRIOT Act Which Could Send Its Sources to Jail for 10 Years By Jim Naureckas, May 28, 2015
America’s National Public Radio (NPR) Is Ready for the “Good” Kind of Capitalism By Jim Naureckas, May 26, 2015
A Plot to Level a Village Is Neither Terrorism Nor News–When Targets Are Muslim and Plotter Is Christian By Jim Naureckas, May 22, 2015
Washington Post Stories on North Korea Are Highly Speculative By Jim Naureckas, May 15, 2015
The New York Times Presents 2016 Race as GOP Candidates vs. Hillary Clinton By Jim Naureckas, May 08, 2015
Baltimore Protests: “Why So Much Anger?”: If You Don’t Know, Washington Post Won’t Tell You By Jim Naureckas, April 29, 2015
The New York Times Lets Economic Pundit Disappear TPP’s Economist Critics By Jim Naureckas, April 28, 2015
New York Times: US Enemies Have ‘Propaganda,’ America Has ‘Public Diplomacy’–and a Servile Private Sector By Jim Naureckas, April 17, 2015
Leading Mainstream Papers Incite ‘Supreme International Crime’ By Jim Naureckas, April 03, 2015
Forgiving Al-Qaeda in Pursuit of a New Enemy By Jim Naureckas, March 23, 2015
Danny Schechter, “News Dissector” and Creator, Dies at 72 By Jim Naureckas, March 21, 2015
The Washington Post, Owned by CIA’s Webmaster, Blasts Venezuela’s ‘State-Financed’ News By Jim Naureckas, March 15, 2015
CNN on the Frontiers of the Commercialization of News By Jim Naureckas, March 14, 2015
Russia’s “Anti-Western Anger”: Funny How Russian Propaganda, US Free Press Produce Exact Same Mood Swings By Jim Naureckas, March 13, 2015
What Was Missing From the US Mainstream Coverage of Netanyahu’s Speech By Jim Naureckas, March 06, 2015
CNN Peddles Propaganda About “Completely Mad” Putin By Jim Naureckas, February 13, 2015
The New York Times’ Nuclear Uncertainty Principles: Bias and Disinformation on Nuclear Programs in Israel and Iran By Jim Naureckas, February 10, 2015
Lying Journalists: Some Other Tall Tales NBC’s Brian Williams Might Want to Apologize For By Jim Naureckas, February 07, 2015
US Mainstream Media: “Muslims Are Nazis”, USA Today Jokes By Jim Naureckas, February 05, 2015
Attack on Israeli Soldiers ‘Most Serious Flare-Up in Years’–if Arab Deaths Aren’t Taken Seriously By Jim Naureckas, February 02, 2015
Good News! US Corporations Won’t Have to Pay for Nuclear Disasters in India By Jim Naureckas, February 01, 2015
U.S. Mainstream Media Warning Greece Against a Radical Leftist Break with Austerity By Jim Naureckas, January 27, 2015
‘Poor,’ ‘Middle Class’–What’s the Difference to the One Percent? By Jim Naureckas, January 25, 2015
Selma: The New York Times Sets Martin Luther King Straight on How Freedom Is Won By Jim Naureckas, January 24, 2015
Charlie Hebdo: Conservative and ‘Liberal’ Islamophobia Find Common Ground in the U.S. Mainstream Media By Jim Naureckas, January 15, 2015
Charlie Hebdo vs Breivik: Some European Bloodbaths Are More Interesting Than Others By Jim Naureckas, January 14, 2015
US Media Coverage of Charlie Hebdo Massacre: Remembering Victims of Terror–and Forgetting Some Others By Jim Naureckas, January 08, 2015
Refusing to Take Sides, NPR Takes Sides With Torture Deniers By Jim Naureckas, December 13, 2014
An ‘Entertaining’ Lesson on How Cops Can ‘Win the Media’ After They Kill By Jim Naureckas, December 08, 2014
On Israel/Palestine, New York Time’s Public Editor Seems Reluctant to Heed Own Advice By Jim Naureckas, November 29, 2014
War on the Islamic State (ISIS): TV Anchor to US Treasury Official: Oil Fields and Refineries, “Why Can’t You Just Bomb Them?” By Jim Naureckas, November 23, 2014
Mainstream Media Omissions and Distortions: The World as the Washington Post Would Like It to Be By Jim Naureckas, August 27, 2014
New “Toothpaste Terrorism”… Used in the 1970’s by a CIA Asset By Jim Naureckas, July 01, 2014
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible? By Jim Naureckas, September 07, 2013
‘Terror Returns’– but When Did It Go Away? By Jim Naureckas, April 18, 2013
Controversy Concerning the Korean Armistice Agreement: “A State of War Still Remains in Effect” By Jim Naureckas, March 14, 2013