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Julie Hollar

Julie Hollar is senior analyst for FAIR's Election Focus 2020 project. She was Extra!'s managing editor from 2008 to 2014.

Afghan families gather at the Distribution site of WFP Special Nutritious Food to Pregnant and Lactating Mothers with Acute Malnutrition (AM PLW) and Children aged 6-59 months with moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM children) at an Internally Displaced Camp on September 29, 2021, in the outskirt of Herat, Afghanistan. Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the economy has suffered after the world aid funding stopped, which has created a humanitarian crisis. Most art, culture, and pastimes have been banned. The female population has also had to quit jobs and young girls after the age of 12 can no longer go to school or further education. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Mainstream media forgets the Afghan people, as U.S. sanctions create risk of famine

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Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Media make “heroes” of Republicans who oppose Trump — and also democracy

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abigail Spanberger (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Centrists lose again — and mainstream media blames the left again

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Vice President Mike Pence | Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator (AP Photo/Salon)

How not to cover a pandemic: Talk shows favor government sources, ignore health experts

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Vote on a blackboard with a blue latex-gloved human hand as the V (Getty Images)

Can the U.S. hold a free and fair election — especially this one — during a pandemic?

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden accompanied by Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. speaks at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Who wants a political revolution? Not major media commentators, at least

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A line forms outside a polling site on election day in Atlanta, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP/David Goldman)

Media blows off claims of 2020 voter suppression: It’s “complicated”

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Close-up of Money and U.S. Flag (Getty Images)

Money in politics: Is there any evidence the media actually cares?

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Michael Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (AP/Reuters/Carlo Allegri/David Becker/Seth Wenig/Photo montage by Salon)

Mainstream media pundits look to Mike Bloomberg as Democrats’ anti-Bernie savior

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Minnesotas Williams Arena on November, 3, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over 10,000 people attended the rally, where Sanders was joined by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar. (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

New York Times: Bernie Sanders’ plan to fight climate emergency is too ambitious, slightly Trumpy

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New York Times poll on democratic candidates (Getty Images/New York Times/Salon)

New York Times recycles polls to send a familiar message to Democrats: Go right

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Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/Salon)

New York Times columnist urges Democrats to “seize the center” — and drive away the left

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) (Getty/Alex Wong)

Washington Post goes after Elizabeth Warren with posse of establishment sources

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