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‘The Tax Break Industrial Complex Has Not Been Challenged’
“If fossil fuels paid their full freight for their extraction and their burning, we’d have a very different incentive system.”
US Censorship Is Increasingly Official
Although many still like to hold up the United States as a bastion of free speech uninhibited by government censorship, the idea is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.
Media Applaud the New Cold Wars—but Could US Be More Aggressive, Please?
As it propagandized about the US supposedly fighting for democracy, coverage betrayed a total indifference to the potential costs of these hostilities.
US ‘Intervention Has Directly Led to the Conditions Migrants Are Fleeing’
“$100 billion could make things worse, if you’re giving it to a system that’s fundamentally corrupt, and that has never been fully returned to a democratic state since the 2009 coup.”
US Media Give New Respect to Lab Leak Theory—Though Evidence Is as Lacking as Ever
Despite the sudden media enthusiasm for the lab leak theory, there remains as little compelling evidence that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab as there always has been.
‘The Filibuster Functions as a General Block on All Legislation’
“If Democrats just continue fiddling around and not accomplishing anything, it increases the likelihood that Republicans control the Senate next cycle.”
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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.
