In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights

BY Julie Hollar

In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights

May 6, 2021

‘Hedge Fund Managers Bleed Companies of Their Capabilities’

BY Janine Jackson

‘Hedge Fund Managers Bleed Companies of Their Capabilities’

May 6, 2021

‘We Need to Mobilize People Who Don’t Want to Pay Tucker Carlson’s Salary’

BY Janine Jackson

‘We Need to Mobilize People Who Don’t Want to Pay Tucker Carlson’s Salary’

May 5, 2021

If Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Is a ‘Non-Issue,’ Why Have Media Gone to Such Lengths to Silence Him?

BY Janine Jackson

If Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Is a ‘Non-Issue,’ Why Have Media Gone to Such Lengths to Silence Him?

May 1, 2021

It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse

BY Alan MacLeod

It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse

April 30, 2021

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In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights

Instead of centering trans voices in coverage of bills that target them, journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post have tended to cover the story as primarily one of political debate,

Lynn Parramore

‘Hedge Fund Managers Bleed Companies of Their Capabilities’

“The money that the company spent on buying those outstanding shares in the stock buyback could have been used to develop new products, it could have been used for innovation, it could have been used to maintain and attract talent.”

Tim Karr

‘We Need to Mobilize People Who Don’t Want to Pay Tucker Carlson’s Salary’

“A lot of the policies that have been put in place seem really backward; they take choice out of the hands of consumers—whether it’s choice for an internet connection, whether it’s a choice for the type of cable stations that you subscribe to—and they put them in the hands of these large companies, who have far too much control over the ways that we connect and communicate.”

Mumia Abu-Jamal

If Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Is a ‘Non-Issue,’ Why Have Media Gone to Such Lengths to Silence Him?

If elite media were actually engaged in a serious reckoning with the racism of the US criminal justice system, they would cover the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Collage of "Aggression" headlines

It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse

Western corporate media overwhelmingly reserve the word “aggression” for official enemy nations—whether or not it’s warranted. In contrast, US behavior is almost never categorized as aggressive,

Tucker Carlson

Tim Karr on Paying for Fox News Racism, Lynn Parramore on Hedge Funds vs. Green New Deal

Tucker Carlson spews harmful nonsense like it’s his job, which it is, and he gets some $10 million a year from it—but did you know that, if you have cable, you’re paying into that income?

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FAIR Studies

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.

Young Voices Largely Missing in Election Coverage

Despite the increase of young people planning to vote, corporate media have largely forgotten about them in the weeks leading up to the election.

A CNN reporter attempts to interview a protester being taken away by police.

Activist Voices Missing From Corporate Coverage of Uprisings

Establishment media overwhelmingly turned to columnists, pundits and government officials for interpretation of the uprisings—rather than to the activists facing tear gas on the frontlines.