FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“Feeding frenzy” was a term that kept coming up whenever media critics dissected the collective behavior of the television press during the never-ending year of Monica news. You saw the pictures: camera crews surrounding grand-jury witnesses, hurling questions, often blocking their way to get a closer shot. Many witnesses needed escorts to get through what […]
Beginning in late 1985, the South African government enacted a series of press restrictions. The goal was clear: drive “the pictures” off foreign TV screens, especially the vivid images of white cops beating, tear gassing and shooting at black kids. That the press restrictions worked is not debatable. Coverage of South Africa dramatically decreased. During […]
Where has the apartheid story gone? Is it being covered less because less is happening? Has the international press packed up and moved on? Or has South Africa’s press ban been so successful that coverage has been effectively curtailed?
