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‘Having a Say Can Be Transformative’
“You can have profit-sharing, you can have a living wage. And these are all things we are told that you can’t have in America.”
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.
Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to ‘Save the World’
Because stories of youth resistance are powerful and deserve to be told, it’s time to reevaluate the way that media have been telling them.
Andrew Perez on the Filibuster
The filibuster is the crucial backdrop to any conversation about the Biden agenda, though media don’t always bring that point home.
Pushing Consumers to Amazon Is Baked In to NYT’s Business Model
Anodyne Wirecutter articles that instruct New York Times readers how best to shop at Amazon serve to blunt any impact from critical coverage.
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So here’s a fun fact: thanks to this article I wrote for @NYMag I have been kicked out of the Eric Adams election night party https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/eric-adams-allies-nyc-mayoral-race.html
Keep in mind this has never happened in my career. I was allowed to enter not one but *two" Donald Trump election night parties
I was just literally told I am "not on the list" for the Eric Adams election night party and only certain media are allowed. Absolutely bizarre.
@FAIRmediawatch "By giving over the conversation almost entirely to government sources—whose dominant policy positions range from cruel to crueler—TV news offered extremely limited room to highlight and challenge those realities."
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.
