Jeremy Scahill: Why Won’t the Media Take Obama to Task for Targeted Assassinations?

Jeremy Scahill: Why Won’t the Media Take Obama to Task for Targeted Assassinations?

Jeremy Scahill: Why Won’t the Media Take Obama to Task for Targeted Assassinations?

Why didn’t the media question the "parade of jingoism" surrounding Democrats’ celebration of President Obama’s foreign policy in Charlotte last week?

Copy Link
Facebook
X (Twitter)
Bluesky
Pocket
Email

Last week, speakers at the DNC trumpeted the killing of Osama bin Laden to bolster President Obama’s foreign policy credentials, and the cable news pundits went along for the ride. But on Sunday’s Up with Chris Hayes, The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill criticized how the media managed to conveniently overlook some of the more controversial aspects of Obama’s foreign policy, from targeted assasinations of American citizens to the women and children killed in the administration’s wide-scale drone campaign.

Steven Hsieh

Your support makes stories like this possible

From Minneapolis to Venezuela, from Gaza to Washington, DC, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence. 

Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, The Nation publishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too often denied a voice in the national media—stories like the one you’ve just read.

Each day, our journalism cuts through lies and distortions, contextualizes the developments reshaping politics around the globe, and advances progressive ideas that oxygenate our movements and instigate change in the halls of power. 

This independent journalism is only possible with the support of our readers. If you want to see more urgent coverage like this, please donate to The Nation today.

Ad Policy
x