Anonymity in the New York Times: By the Numbers
A new report from FAIR looks at a year’s worth of anonymity in the New York Times, with media critic Reed Richardson taking an in-depth look at how unnamed sources were used in the paper in 2015.
No Debate and the New War
In the run-up to the US military attacks in Iraq and Syria, US media presented almost no debate on whether the country should go to war.
Public TV: Where the One Percent Rule
A recent essay in Harper’s (10/14) roiled the waters at PBS by arguing that public television is too often geared towards serving the “aging upper class: their tastes, their pet agendas, their centrist politics.” Perhaps that’s no surprise. A new FAIR study finds that the trustees of major public television stations are overwhelmingly drawn from […]
STUDY: Cable News: A White Man’s World
A new FAIR study reveals that when it comes to primetime cable news debates, it’s a white man’s world.
Surveying six primetime programs on CNN,Fox News and MSNBC, the study finds that 84 percent of the 1,015 guests appearing in interview or discussion segments in a five-week period were white, while 72 percent were men.
Millions in Poverty Get Less Coverage Than 482 Billionaires
New FAIR study documents TV news’ lack of interest in the poor.
TV News and Extreme Weather: Don’t Mention Climate Change
Dramatic weather-related disasters are ready made for TV news. But what’s not on the screen? The human-made climate change that is affecting, and in some cases exacerbating, that extreme weather.
FAIR NYC Event: Dollarocracy–Big Money, Big Media, Bad News
Join FAIR to celebrate the release of the new book Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America, by John Nichols and Bob McChesney. Nichols and McChesney will be joined by two very special guests: –Amy Goodman, the award-winning host of Democracy Now! –Jeremy Scahill, independent investigative journalist, author of Dirty Wars […]
Right and Early
CBS host Bob Schieffer once declared that his show’s mission was to “find interesting people from all segments of American life who have something to say and give them a chance to say it.” By that standard, Schieffer’s Face the Nation–and the rest of the Sunday morning TV chat shows–are failing miserably, according to a […]
Keep the Heat on Corporate Media—Support FAIR Today!
After 25 years, FAIR feels more energized than ever. Why? Our sold-out anniversary celebration in New York with Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore inspired us. Tens of thousands of readers visit our website each and every month. Activists and academics tell us they’re drawing on FAIR’s expertise and experience. FAIR’s analysis […]
FAIR Seeks Columnists
The national media watch group FAIR is looking for two strong writers with distinctive voices to write regular bimonthly columns for our magazine Extra! and for our website. One column would be on issues relating primarily to media and gender; the other column would primarily concern media and race. We’re seeking well-documented, fact-based media criticism, […]
News Corp’s Hack Shows a Double Standard
The explosive allegations about widespread illegal voicemail hacking by British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch are getting very little coverage on Murdoch’s Fox News Channel (TVNewser, 7/12/11). But Fox‘s top host took a very different view when a Republican politician’s email account was hacked, calling for the prosecution of the website that published the emails. […]
Taking the Public Out of Public TV
UPDATE: Sign FAIR’s petition to bring back Now to Friday nights. A multi-part FAIR exposé of PBS‘s most prominent news and public affairs programs demonstrates that public television is failing to live up to its mission to provide an alternative to commercial television, to give voice to those “who would otherwise go unheard” and help […]
Meacham to PBS Would Send the Wrong Message
According to a report on the New York Times website (3/9/10), PBS is in talks with Newsweek editor Jon Meacham to be co-host of its forthcoming Need to Know program. If the report proves accurate, it gives viewers little hope for the kind of critical, uncompromising programming that public television was created to foster. Meacham’s […]
Doctors, media critics demand broader TV debate on healthcare
Between noon and 1 pm EST, the national media watch group FAIR and local healthcare advocacy groups will deliver a petition signed by over 12,000 people demanding that the TV networks include the single-payer proposal in their coverage of the national healthcare debate. The petition’s signatories include Obama’s longtime physician, Dr. David Scheiner; filmmaker Michael […]
Doctors, Media Critics to Deliver Prescription for a Broader TV Debate on Healthcare
WHAT: The national media watch group FAIR and local healthcare advocacy groups will deliver a petition signed by over 11,000 people demanding that the TV networks include single-payer in their coverage of the national healthcare debate. The petition’s signatories include Obama’s longtime physician Dr. David Scheiner, filmmaker Michael Moore, former MSNBC host Phil Donahue, actors […]
Censored By ABC, Obama’s Longtime Doctor Speaks Out
CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO The doctor who served as Obama’s personal physician for 22 years speaks out about how ABC disinvited him from their healthcare forum two days before the prime-time event where he was planning to ask about single-payer healthcare. Watch FAIR’s exclusive video interview with Dr. Scheiner and add your name to […]
Join FAIR at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Join FAIR at the 6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference Hope to Action Saturday | May 30th 2009 Since 2004, the annual NYC Grassroots Media Conferences feature workshops, skills-sharing, dialogue, debate and strategizing sessions about media making, media policy and how to use media to forward social justice campaigns. Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington […]
PBS Ombud Sides with Frontline Critics
PBS ombud Michael Getler is siding with critics of a Frontline documentary that failed to examine single-payer national health insurance as a possible alternative to the U.S. healthcare system. Citing FAIR’s study “Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare,” which documented that single-payer advocates were all but shut out of the media discussion about healthcare reform, Getler […]
FAIR challenges CBC Ombud’s Report
As the BBC continues to come under fire for refusing to carry an aid appeal for Gaza, the U.S. media watch group FAIR is challenging the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for making false and biased claims after a campaign by groups that advocate for uncritical coverage of Israel. The campaign was launched in response to CBC’s […]
FAIR Study: Human Rights Coverage Serving Washington’s Needs
A new FAIR study finds that leading newspapers have been putting political considerations ahead of humanitarian concerns in their editorials on human rights in Latin America. The report, “Human Rights Coverage Serving Washington’s Needs,” finds that while Venezuela is by every measure a safer place than Colombia to live, vote, organize unions and political groups, […]
