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FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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Jobs Report Coverage Lacked Context, Worker Perspective
The perspective of workers and unemployed people were often left out of stories, or their quotes were buried beneath the partisan bickering over the jobs numbers and the complaints from businesses.
Michael Hiltzik on ‘No One Wants to Work!’
Do elite media have space for people who don’t want to risk their lives for less money than they need to live?
‘Government Money That’s Gone Into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies’
“People who have less power and less money around the world are the people last in line—and that line is going to be pretty long if you don’t speed up the production.”
Corporate Media Oppose Afghan Control of Afghanistan
Establishment reporting over the future of Afghanistan after Biden’s announcement demonstrated the imperialist mindset of corporate journalists, who presented Afghans controlling their own country as an unacceptable outcome.
‘What We’ve Seen in Sheikh Jarrah Is a Microcosm of What We’ve Experienced for the Last 70+ Years’
“We have something to say. We’ve been saying it, but, unfortunately, major media outlets have been unwilling to take the leap and actually hear the Palestinian people and hear our story and share our stories.”
Ahmad Abuznaid on Israel/Palestine Apartheid, James Love on Bill Gates & Vaccine Politics
Where elite media present a frozen he said/she said, never-the-twain-shall-meet debate over Israel/Palestine, more and more people see a different way forward.
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CounterSpin, the weekly radio show of FAIR, provides a critical exposé of the corporate news. Produced and hosted by Janine Jackson it is heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations. The current show, back archives and transcripts are available online.
Another brilliant episode of #CounterSpin. @FAIRmediawatch: Michael Hiltzik on 'No One Wants to Work!' - https://bit.ly/2RSnz2z
Just so we're clear- we, the taxpayers of the world, paid for the vaccine research through our governments because it was very important. Now the pharmaceutical companies, are saying "but our research is ours and we shouldn't have to share it."
https://fair.org/home/government-money-thats-gone-into-vaccine-development-is-being-privatized-by-a-handful-of-companies/
As @GregShupak notes in FAIR, the “right to exist” framing is a propaganda thingamajig meant to end the conversation and misdirect from the issues at hand https://fair.org/home/states-have-no-inherent-right-to-exist-but-its-a-media-fixation-on-israel-palestine/
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.
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.
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.
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