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Ralph Peters has been one of the most bloodthirsty hawks and overtly anti-Muslim trolls in US media. But now that he dislikes Trump for being mean to his friends in the US intelligence community, he can find a home again on CNN as a Respectable, Reasonable Republican.
The IDF video deceptively edited Razan al-Najjar’s comments to distort what she said—a fact not noted by the New York Times report until the third paragraph from the end.
The average reader would come away thinking some dispassionate government body was issuing a warning about Social Security and Medicare based on verifiable and objective fact, as they would issue a warning about the Zika virus or an oncoming hurricane.
The New York Times story isn’t about “charges of antisemitism,” it’s about criticism of Israel. The headline ought to have said, “Democratic Candidate Questioned About Criticism of Israel.”
The Washington Post vaguely acknowledges Washington’s role in the bloody siege of Yemen, but insisting that the US should remain involved in the bombing for the sake of humanitarianism.
During his US PR tour in March, Saudi prince and de facto ruler of the absolute monarchy Mohammed bin Salman (often referred to as “MBS”) touted the progress the kingdom was making in the area of “women’s rights”—namely letting women drive and combatting nebulous reactionary forces that were somehow separate from the regime. Since then, […]
The outlets that covered Facebook’s partnership with the Atlantic Council failed to examine the motives of the DC think tank, its funders, or the broader premise that “fake news” and “foreign meddling” were something in need of combating.
It’s difficult to imagine any of the seemingly knowledgeable and healthy adults at the New York Times editorial board actually thinking the US has been “neutral” in its dealings with Israel and Palestine.
Hours after Trump pulled out of the Iran deal, CNN’s Barbara Starr rushed to publish an anonymously sourced and transparently propagandistic press release for the Trump administration and Pentagon. Wouldn’t it be easier if Starr just skipped the middleman and worked at the DoD directly?
When a number of major outlets reported on a speech Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani gave at an MEK conference, the outlets failed to note that the group is widely loathed inside Iran, and seen as an illegitimate cult by experts across ideological lines.
According to a recent poll, 88 percent of the South Korean public viewed the recent peace summit as a success. Reading US media, one would hardly know this.
For casually threatening economic ruin, inciting violence against entire populations, pushing for bombing faceless Muslims, or downplaying racism and child rape, there’s no better outlet than long-time echo chamber of power-serving conventional wisdom, the Washington Post.
As FAIR has noted before (e.g., Extra!, 1/17; FAIR.org, 4/2/18), the term “clash” is almost always used to launder power asymmetry and give the reader the impression of two equal warring sides. It obscures power dynamics and the nature of the conflict itself, e.g., who instigated it and what weapons if any were used. “Clash” […]
Comcast corporate forced its nominally independent pundits and news anchors of Morning Joe to air a cultish 8-minute commercial for Comcast’s “Comcast Cares Day,” the lowlight of which was MSNBC host Al Sharpton comparing Comcast to Nelson Mandela.
The Russia-Is-Everywhere-and-Out-to-Get-US narrative has reached its inevitable, sleazy nadir: the smearing of a black activist by an NPR affiliate for the crime of going on a Russian government–funded radio station a handful of times.
A survey by FAIR of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria. Twenty supported the strikes, while six were ambiguous as to whether or not the bombing was advisable. The remaining 74 issued no opinion about Trump’s latest escalation of the Syrian war.
The curators of American public opinion at the three most influential broadsheets in the United States have decided that dissent from the build-up to new airstrikes on Syria is not really an opinion worth hearing.
The term “clash” is almost always used to to launder power asymmetry and give the reader the impression of two equal warring sides.
Online conflict is neatly dismissed as a Kremlin psyop, the narrative of Russia interference in every aspect of our lives is reinforced, and one is reminded to be “aware” of Russian trolls online.
A segment on Israel killing 17 Gaza protesters illustrates how NPR consistently deflects blame for Israeli violence—either shifting blame onto Palestinian victims or dispersing it through false parity.
