FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
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FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
BY Joshua Cho`
WaPo Backing Limited Impeachment Was Constitutional Disaster
February 27, 2020
BY Teddy Ostrow
Media Vapors Over Vaping Cloud Public Health Goals
February 27, 2020
BY Jim Naureckas
Bernie Sanders Can’t Win (by as Much) Unless Youth Vote Surges (Like It Recently Has)
February 26, 2020
BY Dean Baker
NYT’s Look at Democratic Tax Plans Is an Orgy of Really Big Numbers
February 25, 2020
BY Janine Jackson
‘We Have to Look at the Underpinnings of Environmental Degradation’
February 25, 2020

A critical flaw with corporate media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s impeachment was how it obscured the extent of the Trump administration’s litany of impeachable offenses.

There’s been a moralist war on nicotine vaping for years, despite the scientific near-consensus that it is far safer than conventional cigarettes, which kill 480,000 Americans a year.

Election Focus 2020: Even when you assume that Bernie Sanders supporters won’t vote as much as they say they will, and will vote when they say they won’t, Sanders still wins

Election Focus 2020: The New York Times gives a a true orgy of really big numbers in the form of trillions of dollars of additional taxes and spending, providing readers with no context that would let them know how much impact these taxes are likely to have on the economy and/or their pocketbooks.

“Environmental degradation is about… these US corporations, backed by US government, that are allowed to run roughshod over peoples’ lands in the name of, again, profit.”

Election Focus 2020: While some coverage is still stuck in denial on Bernie Sanders, for the most part corporate media have moved on to the next stage of grieving, which is anger.
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Election Focus 2020: The first half hour of the debate was almost entirely given over to non-policy sparring over electability (including the bogeyman of socialism) and experience.

While US media have indeed ramped up their coverage of the climate crisis, they continue to give short shrift to what are arguably the most important factors for determining our future: what specific human practices are responsible for the changing climate, why carbon emissions continue to rise, and what we can and should be doing about it.

Only the Washington Post covered the NDAA more than Peloton (10 articles versus 5), while every other outlet gave an ad for an exercise bike more coverage than a multi-billion-dollar grant to the military industrial complex.

From the Yellow Vests in France to demonstrations in Lebanon, Gaza, Chile, Ecuador and Haiti, sustained movements all over the planet have taken to the street demanding change. Yet media have been disproportionately interested in only one: the Hong Kong protests.

Election Focus 2020: This week’s Democratic presidential debate confirmed that media are stuck in a fairly rigid debate script that elevates questions about healthcare and the economy above all else, and leaves many pressing topics deeply underexplored.
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
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