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The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez

Western media have spent years conveying a lie: that Venezuela had been very prosperous and democratic until Hugo Chávez ruined everything.

New York Times depiction of an elderly man dead of unknown causes in Wuhan, China. photo: Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse

Corporate Media Politicize WHO Investigation on Covid Origins to Vilify China

Orientalist narratives of Chinese secrecy and duplicity seem to be predetermined and unfalsifiable narratives for Western media,

Media Rediscover Afghan Women Only When US Leaves

Media “discovered” Afghan women as the US angled for invasion; their interest returned with a vengeance as US troops exited the country.

AP photo of Taliban fighters in the presidential palace in Kabul

Phyllis Bennis and Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan Withdrawal

US media consumers may need not a broom but a shovel to deal with the self-aggrandizing, history-erasing misinformation headed our way.

Jeff Cohen (cc photo: Jim Naureckas)

‘The Media Are an Arena for Struggle’

“If you’re progressive…you have to be active around the problem of corporate media bias, corporate media censorship, exclusion, racism.”

New York Times depiction of a helicopter over the US embassy in Kabul (photo: AP/Rahmat Gul)

As Kabul Is Retaken, Papers Look Back in Erasure

Editorial boards trivialized South Asian lives, erased US responsibility and made untenable assertions about Washington’s motives.

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FAIR Studies

Daily News and New York Post crime front pages

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.

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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.

New York TImes depiction of John Hickenlooper (photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP)

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.