FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
That so many corporate media outlets can uniformly whitewash a right-wing war hawk with links to fascists as a “human rights champion” and “defender of democracy” is a testament to just how beholden corporate media are to US government interests.
The Washington Post (8/27/18) published an op-ed by conservative staff opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin praising the late Sen. John McCain for his supposed commitment to “human rights.” Rubin waxed poetic on the ostensible “lost champion” of human rights, who “model[ed] for others the behavior of a free society.” She declared, quite paradoxically, “With the possible […]
To the leading liberal US cable news network, Yemen is relevant when Americans die—not when thousands of Yemenis are killed, bombed daily by Saudi Arabia, with US weapons, fuel and intelligence.
Vox presents viewers with an array of US government-linked talking heads who insist the only options to resolve the conflict in Korea are devastating sanctions or apocalyptic war.
Under the cover of a shallow understanding of “balance,” corporate media have internalized the outlandish idea that it is “partisan,” and thus not “neutral,” to acknowledge the undeniably destructive effects of particular political policies.
For the popular US cable news network MSNBC, the largest humanitarian catastrophe in the world is apparently not worth much attention—even as the US government has played a key role in creating and maintaining that unparalleled crisis.
The GOP bill, passed by the Senate in the early hours of December 2 and described by major media outlets as a “tax cut,” is in reality an explicit handout to large companies and the ultra-rich that will actually increase taxes on working-class Americans.
A crucial detail has been downplayed or even ignored in many corporate media reports: the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in bringing slavery to the North African nation.
According to corporate media, the greatest hope to rein in President Donald Trump’s extremism is a top general who just complimented the commander of the slavery-defending Confederacy.
The New York Times gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.”
Major Western media outlets covering Yemeni civilian deaths in airstrikes have obscured the responsibility Saudi Arabia, and its US and European supporters, bear for launching these airstrikes.
Like clockwork, pundits responded to the Afghanistan speech by rushing to praise Trump for his “presidential” decision. There is nothing quite as presidential as expanding an unending war that has left many thousands of Muslim civilians dead.
Spin doctors at major news outlets depicted the Trump administration’s announcement that it was halting support for Syrian rebels as variously a spineless concession to the evil Russian puppet master and/or a wretched abandonment of a supposedly noble US commitment to “freedom and democracy.”
A new Vox video is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald Trump’s vehemently anti-Iran administration, is ratcheting up aggression against that country.
Since Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest in a landslide victory in 2015, he has faced an incessant slew of attacks from the neoliberal Blairite wing of his own party—and from the corporate media that so frequently echo it.
Since Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest in a landslide victory in 2015, he has faced an incessant slew of attacks from the rightist Blairite wing of his own party—and from the corporate media that so frequently echo it.
The United States has bombed Syrian government forces three times in just eight months. Major media outlets have overwhelmingly failed to ask critical questions about these incidents, preferring to instead echo the Pentagon.
The Washington Post reports that a recent airstrike in Mosul “was potentially one of the worst US-led civilian bombings in 25 years.” Yet leading news networks went out of their way to craft some of the most euphemistic headlines imaginable.
In the article “Venezuelan President Called a ‘Grinch’ After Government Toy Seizure,” CNN reporters Rafael Romo and Jorge Luis Pérez liken President Nicolás Maduro to a dastardly Grinch who is stealing toys from under children’s Christmas trees — while he is doing precisely the contrary.
It is not until the 20th paragraph of the 21-paragraph article, on page A13 in the print edition, that the New York Times reveals a crucial point of clarification: Clinton “campaign officials acknowledge that they have no evidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to tilt the election to Donald Trump.
