FAIR
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Posts
‘Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda Has Been Driven by Corporations’
“All of the rollbacks that we’ve seen across the government in so many different areas, and across so many different agencies, have been even more radical and extreme that even I expected.”
Reuters Can’t Find US Critics to Question Amazon’s Anti-Venezuela Propaganda
Are we to believe a Maduro government official is the only person Reuters could find on Twitter who criticized Amazon’s anti-Venezuela propaganda?
‘It Was Illegal and Still Is Illegal’
“We see permanent war, and that has gone throughout post-9/11. The Bush administration, the Obama administration, continued those wars, and Obama used drones in seven different countries.”
The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content
Corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance.
Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Our elites are engaged in normal economic activity or else looking out for the betterment of humanity, while theirs are nefariously dominating politics.
ABC Debate Lowlights
Election Focus 2020: After CNN’s remarkably substantive and thoughtful town hall on the climate crisis, we wrote that the following debates now had a solid foundation from which to go deeper on climate for a larger audience. Unfortunately, ABC took it as an opportunity to do even less on the crisis.
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CounterSpin, the weekly radio show of FAIR, provides a critical exposé of the corporate news. Produced and hosted by Janine Jackson it is heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations. The current show, back archives and transcripts are available online.
FAIR Studies
Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Our elites are engaged in normal economic activity or else looking out for the betterment of humanity, while theirs are nefariously dominating politics.
Do Debate Questions Reflect Concerns of Democratic Voters?
Election Focus 2020: The fiscally conservative, risk-averse, largely-happy-with-the-status-quo voter—which, by the way, probably fits the profile of most of the corporate media questioners—would haunt much of NBC’s debates.
So Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans?
The study is the clearest evidence of the devastating impact US policy is having on the people of Venezuela.
Establishment Media and the Green New Deal: New Wine in Old Bottles
While the resolution was a radical departure from politics as usual, most corporate media filtered coverage of the “Green New Deal” through the lens of conventional expectations.
Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela
A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period, zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took an anti–regime change or pro-Maduro/Chavista position.
