Mediaite One Sheet: The Iran Media Bubble, AI Scott Adams, & Polymarket’s Power Grab!

Mediaite One Sheet: The Iran Media Bubble, AI Scott Adams, & Polymarket’s Power Grab!

THE BIG PICTURE The American media class spent the week covering Iran the way it covers everything — in separate, self-confirming lanes. Fox is cheering a strike. Progressive outlets are noting the allies sitting out Trump’s “Board of Peace.” And most newsrooms missed the most obvious detail: that carrier strike groups were massing offshore while the peace summit was happening onshore. Meanwhile, the Colbert/Talarico interview hit 85 million vie…

The US news media is failing the public in its coverage of a possible war against Iran

Reporters should be asking Trump officials some essential questions, and calling attention to the lack of answers.

The U.S. News Media Is Sleepwalking the Public Into a Possible War Against Iran

America is standing on the precipice of a full-scale regional war in the Middle East—a conflict that could claim thousands of lives and send gas prices skyrocketing—yet the vast majority of the public is almost entirely unaware of the danger. While everyday Americans are busy with their daily lives, the U.S. government is engaged in a “titanic” military buildup in the Persian Gulf, one that rivals the preparations for the invasion of Iraq. But u…