Why Jake Tapper Never Asks How We Pay for War
High-profile media brands like Jake Tapper simply do not view the expense of empire maintenance to be subject to critical analysis.
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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High-profile media brands like Jake Tapper simply do not view the expense of empire maintenance to be subject to critical analysis.
Please tell the Washington Post to acknowledge the role of CIA subterfuge in fueling the anti-vaccination sentiment that has led to a resurgence of polio in Pakistan.
A new report finds that more than half of the 120 indicted in the “largest gang takedown ever” were never alleged by federal prosecutors to be in a gang.
Election Focus 2020: Why does the New York Times take rich liberals at their word that their concern with Bernie Sanders is that he would lose to Trump, rather than the obvious, glaring fact that his election would run counter to their interests?
As activist pressure on lawmakers to oppose the Yemen War mounted over the past few months, the nominally liberal media powerhouse MSNBC was once again AWOL.
With a report on Russian influence in Africa, the New York Times added to its series of reports depicting Official Enemies surpassing the US in the race for global dominance.
Why should only these groups—Muslim 95 percent of the time—“renounce violence,” but the US and its allies never have to?
You may not know it, but bloated Pentagon budgets are actually “progressive.” Or so says a recent opinion piece in Bloomberg News.
Election Focus 2020: Why, one is compelled to ask, do longtime, diehard conservatives care so much about what’s in the Democratic Party’s best interests?
Please contact MSNBC to urge the network to balance its pro-coup coverage of Venezuela.
Western media outlets uniformly echoed the Trump administration’s simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid.
The practice of publishing mugshots leads to summary public shaming, firings, diminished social status—all before a trial has even taken place. In the age of SEO, it’s a form of extrajudicial punishment that largely harms the poor and people of color.
Several corporate media outlets thought it newsworthy to point out that prisoners at Coleman federal prison in Wildwood, Florida, received a routine holiday meal that was slightly above their normal, bottom-of-the-barrel provisions.
NPR, using Amazon’s spokespeople and paraphrasing a nebulous cohort of “economists,” recast “criticism,” such that it is, as a generic, sanitized critique against an industry trend presumably out of Amazon‘s control, rather than directing criticism at Amazon.
NPR did have a throwaway line about how Amazon was a “sponsor” of NPR, but it’s unclear how pointing out that the company you’re writing a press release for helped pay for the press release makes it any better.
The United States’ grotesque alliance with the Saudi theocratic monarchy is not a product of a foreign boogeyman, but core to the US imperial project.
Block Club Chicago suffers, particularly on the issue of “crime” reporting, from the same stunted ethical scope all other local corporate media does. Again and again, Block Club’s “crime” reporting consists of simply copy-and-pasting Chicago police blotters about alleged crimes, with no effort to report any side other than the police’s.
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored.
On July 2, a year had passed since MSNBC’s last segment mentioning US participation in the war on Yemen, which has killed in excess of 15,000 people and resulted in over a million cases of cholera.
When the New York Times wanted to recap reactions—“from the right and left”—to Donald Trump’s recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the choice of pundits it turned to to represent “the left” was exceedingly bizarre.
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