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Posts Tagged ‘U.S. politics’

The hurricane conspiracy complex

Posted in Climate change, Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 15, 2024 | 1 Comment »

The big question around these back-to-back hurricanes in the southeast U.S. is not why they are happening (that’s easy enough to answer), but why so many people find it easier to believe they were artificially generated by the U.S. government, the “deep state,” FEMA, industry, or some euphemistic “they” (and we know who “they” are) […]

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Truth, media trust, and the election

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

This article is cross-posted from the media ecologies blog e2mc. While last week’s election has resulted in the announcement of a new president and vice-president, with leaders of many countries around the world recognizing those results (and with global markets rallying their apparent support), the current Trump administration has not recognized them. As with the […]

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An average (pandemic-era, pre-election) Sunday

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve begun posting updates on media coverage related to the U.S. presidential election (and related issues, such as social media disinformation) on my blog e2mc, which I’ve restarted to accompany my course “Media Ecologies and Cultural Politics.” Here is the latest post, which summarizes some key stories from yesterday’s Sunday New York Times. I may […]

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The week in a minute

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on June 7, 2020 | 3 Comments »

In a week of startling developments, some things still sound like they’re from The Onion. Or at least Harper’s Findings. They aren’t. In a week of police riots capping decades of ethnic violence in a country torn asunder by authoritarianism, a dismal economy, and plague, police responding to a bee sting were attacked by a […]

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Trump vs. the world

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , on June 2, 2017 | 2 Comments »

Trump’s speech on his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord included so many questionable statements, it’s hard to know where to start. Fortunately, others have. Among the better fact-checks are the Washington Post’s (this one and this one), FactCheck.org’s, NPR’s, PolitiFact’s, and the Huffington Post’s. Foreign Policy’s summary (which comes from a partisan source, but […]

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