Jim Naureckas
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New York, NY, United States
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ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II
The insistence that not all Japanese people were banned from California severely damages the credibility of the New York Times. → Read More
Can False Balance Kill You? It Sure Can
You know what would actually benefit politics in the US? A media system that was willing to point out who was causing demonstrable problems. → Read More
ACTION ALERT: NYT Celebrates Neo-Nazi Azov Unit
Not a word in the eight-paragraph New York Times story gives any hint about the ugly far-right politics of the Azov unit. → Read More
NYT Scolds China for Not 'Learning to Live'—or Die—With Covid
The New York Times writes yet another in a series of articles about how China has had the enormous misfortune of avoiding mass death. → Read More
'Part of the Road to a Solution Is Really Understanding the Problem'
This annual round-up reflects the conversations we hope offered a voice or context or information that helped you interpret the news you read. → Read More
NYT: China Needs to Rethink Its Not-Letting-People-Die-From-Covid Policy
Do you feel like you are free of "pandemic fatigue" because you live in a country that has a "higher tolerance of Covid"? → Read More
NYT: China Needs to Rethink Its Not-Letting-People-Die-From-Covid Policy
Do you feel like you are free of "pandemic fatigue" because you live in a country that has a "higher tolerance of Covid"? → Read More
After 25 Years, There's a Reason MSNBC Can't Look Back
A retrospective of MSNBC would include its platforming conservatives, silencing antiwar voices and hyping round-the-clock scandal coverage. → Read More
Rumsfeld Remembered as 'Complex,' 'Energetic'—Not as Killer of Multitudes
One thing missing from corporate media obituaries of Donald Rumsfeld are estimates of how many people died in the wars he launched. → Read More
NYT Scolds Pride Organizers for Not Tolerating NYPD Abuse
What's a "worrisome trend" to the New York Times editors wasn't police violence towards queer people, but LGBTQ activists challenging the ability of police forces to whitewash that violence by having gay contingents in Pride parades. → Read More
Need a Quote From an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do Like the New York Times and Make It Up
The New York Times produces a new installment in its ongoing project of demonizing China. → Read More
Exit Lines: Campaign Analysts Miss the Signal in the Noise
The bottom line, obscured by demographic gee-whiz stories, is that Trump had a 15-point advantage among whites and a 46-point deficit with people of color. → Read More
Media Still Refuse to Report the Real News: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election
Although I’ve written (FAIR.org, 9/15/20) about US media’s refusal to forthrightly report that President Donald Trump is trying to steal the 2020 election—despite giving every indication that he intends to do so—it’s still surreal to watch journalists continue to engage in euphemism and indirection as Trump tries to execute a soft coup in real-time.... → Read More
Kathleen Kearney Naureckas (1936-2020)
Today would be the 84th birthday of my mother, Kathleen Kearney Naureckas, who died in Oak Park, Illinois, on September 30, 2020. → Read More
A Quick (Corrected) Calculation on Child Covid Deaths
People who promote the idea of accepting Covid infection in pursuit of herd immunity rarely acknowledge the high death toll that such a policy necessarily entails. → Read More
A Quick Calculation on How Many Kids Jacobin Is Willing to Let Die
Should assume that there are many, many cases of Covid in children we don’t know about, and therefore we can guess that their risk of death is “minimal”? That’s junk science. → Read More
ACTION ALERT: Newsweek Should Disavow Racist Insinuation That Kamala Harris Is Not a Citizen
Please contact Newsweek's editors and demand that they retract the op-ed insinuating that Kamala Harris is not a US citizen. → Read More
Why Is a Case of Bubonic Plague in Inner Mongolia a Worldwide News Story?
Why does this medical misfortune in Inner Mongolia, one of hundreds of cases of bubonic plague that will occur worldwide this year, deserve a story in major news outlets? → Read More
Are Swedes Shunned for High Covid Rates—or Is It Really ABBA?
A New York Times reporter tries to explain why Swedes are ostracized without revealing how he sold deadly snake oil to Times readers. → Read More
It Won’t Be Protests That Bring On the Next Big Wave of Covid Infections
What epidemiologists say about the coronavirus gives reason to doubt the protests will have a major impact on the pandemic’s trajectory. → Read More