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‘The Techniques Rumsfeld Was Using Were Designed to Get False Information’
“A prosecutor has to be appointed because it’s open and notorious criminality at the highest levels of government.”
‘US Companies Can Be Sued for Involvement in Child Slavery’
“Being able to buy cocoa at a lower cost, because the farms lowered their cost by using slaves, that’s ‘benefiting from.'”
How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
Mainstream corporate media have given far too much space and legitimacy to the right’s focus on white victimhood.
‘That’s Lethal, Communities Completely Exposed to This Kind of Heat’
“Wealthier communities have been designed to have more trees, because of a variety of racial covenants and redlining policies.”
‘We Have Seen the Deepening of the Anti-Democratic, Anti-Protest Legislative Trend’
“Some of these laws seek to really punish, not unlawful conduct, but association: the fact that people are in the same place at the same time.”
William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld
Nestle’s profitability relies on a chocolate supply chain that includes literal slave labor in the Ivory Coast.
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FAIR Studies
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds
New York City’s two big tabloid dailies gave far more coverage to crime than to the affordable housing crisis in the past year.
TV News Coverage of Southern Border Lacks Refugee Sources, Historical Context
TV news coverage of the southern US border largely ignores the experiences and voices of those most impacted by the immigration system.
Sunday Shows Hit Snooze on Climate Alarm
If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, journalists have to move beyond debating its existence or importance, and start looking at both its causes—very concretely, looking at culprits—and its solutions.
Leading Papers Talked Up Establishment’s Senate Candidates
Democrats celebrated dual Georgia Senate race victories this week, which gives them, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaker vote, a bare majority in the Senate. But not all Democrats are created equal, and the one-vote margin makes the politics of each individual in that majority more consequential. In 2020, several states witnessed competitive Democratic […]
Study of 2020 Debates Finds New Topics but Familiar Framing
A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates.
