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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.
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.
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.
‘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.”
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
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.
