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‘Governments Are Spying on the People Who Bring Us the News’
“We all rely on journalists’ ability to find out what’s going on, especially in ways that governments don’t like, to be an informed populace.”
James Early on Cuban Embargo, David Cooper on ‘We All Quit’
The hardships facing Cubans—and the actions the United States could take to stop contributing to those hardships.
To the Right, to the Right: Media’s Special Election Lesson
It wasn’t hard to find media voices quick to draw the usual conclusion: Voters prefer moderate over progressive policy platforms.
‘We Can’t Fight for Racial Justice if We Can’t Learn About Racial Injustice’
CRT is “just a pathway to unearthing the ways in which our society has structured racial inequality into its everyday institutions, practices and policy priorities.”
The Far Right’s Manufactured Meaning of Critical Race Theory
Right-Wing commentators have deliberately manufactured a set of caricatures to make the public—mainly the white public—feel threatened.
Why Carlson’s Alliance With Hungarian Fascism Matters
Tucker Carlson’s endorsement of Viktor Orbán is a signal of what kind of society Carlson would like to see in the United States.
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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.
