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Joshua Cho

Joshua Cho is a writer based in New York City.

A woman buys meat at a wet market despite fears of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Bangkok (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Mainstream media’s racist trope: Blaming COVID-19 on China’s “wet markets”

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; President Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Mainstream media: Corporate looting is a “rescue plan,” plutocrats are “saviors”

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Scott Olson/Getty Images/Salon)

Corporate media drove Joe Biden to victory — but claims it doesn’t really exist

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Riot police officers wearing face masks stand guard as residents protest against plans for an empty local housing estate to become a temporary quarantine camp for patients and frontline medical staff of a SARS-like virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Fanling district in Hong Kong on January 26, 2020. - Protesters threw petrol bombs on January 26 night at an empty public housing complex in Hong Kong that had been earmarked to become a temporary quarantine zone as the city battles the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. (PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus panic: Media blends elements of “yellow peril” and Red Scare

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US President Donald Trump and Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Is Iran really the No. 1 sponsor of terrorism? There’s another contender closer to home

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Media headlines obscure Joe Biden’s false statements on cutting Social Security

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Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets Iowa voters while arriving at a campaign event December 08, 2019 in Coralville, Iowa. Less than two months remain before Iowa holds its caucuses in the nation's first contest in the 2020 presidential election. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Mainstream media sees a puzzling obstacle to Pete Buttigieg’s rise: The voters

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and he First President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales (Getty Images/Salon)

Mainstream media: Why can’t Venezuela be more like Bolivia?

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Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden participates in a Presidential Candidates Forum at the NAACP 110th National Convention on July 24, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Biden invokes family tragedy to campaign against Medicare for All — and the media plays along

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