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September 11’s Never-Ending Story
A retrospective look at FAIR’s coverage of two decades of media self-censorship, scapegoating and stenography.
‘Where Are the Threads Dropped With the Criminal Investigation of the Sackler Family?’
“Most of the time when the company commits crimes, it’s sort of reported as if it’s bad news that they got caught.”
‘We’ve Structured Our Economy to Redistribute a Massive Amount of Income Upward’
“We’ve basically structured our financial sector to rake off enormous amounts of money from the rest of the economy.”
Marjorie Cohn on Texas Abortion Law, Kimberly Inez McGuire on Abortion Realities
The Supreme Court refused to address, which amounts to an endorsement, what is overwhelmingly understood as an unconstitutional Texas law.
WGAE Tensions Reflect an Age-Old Clash of Labor Visions
What’s actually happening at the WGAE is an all-too-common struggle between industrial unionists and craft unionists.
‘That’s the Biggest Lie, That We Started Out Great and We’ve Been Getting Better Ever Since’
“If you’ve got a Confederate statue at your county seat…I think it’s easier for you to grow up with a Confederate mindset.”
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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.
