‘The Major Insurers Saw 2020 as a Giant Opportunity for Profiteering’
“Media failed to cover the figures that were there in plain sight, showing a massive increase in insurance companies overhead and profit.”
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Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s (Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC‘s Nightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW’s Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research.


“Media failed to cover the figures that were there in plain sight, showing a massive increase in insurance companies overhead and profit.”


“Jones’ lawyers present[ed] just an incredible wealth of evidence pointing to his innocence…. It really just dismantled the entire case.”


“We know exactly what needs to be done in order to save lives…because states across America have strengthened their gun laws.”


“Tucker [Carlson] made it his mission to bring this white supremacist conspiracy theory into the mainstream, to sanitize it just a little bit.”


“A lot of the audiences from these mainstream outlets are not necessarily the folks who are being hit the hardest by the shortage.”


“There will be more people dying, there will be greater poverty. There will be worse health outcomes all across the board for people.”


“What we talked about was not the woes of one specific industry, but instead we talked about the impact on communities.”


“We cannot downplay or disregard the white nationalist assault on multi-racial democracy, and we have to document it everywhere it turns up.”


“We have to understand that journalism is something that anybody should be able to do. We should all be able to document our stories.”


“The more people watched local television news, the more likely they were to associate criminality with being Black.”


“Marijuana isn’t just about legalization…but making sure that the communities that have been harmed the most…are really at the center.”


“Bringing criminal charges when there is probable cause to believe that Trump committed federal crimes is what the law requires.”


“We have to take the victories that are there. And we have to at least try to inform people about what’s going on.”


Timidity and awkward “even-handedness” ultimately provide cover for ideas and tactics that should be ruthlessly exposed for what they are.


“Justices should not be allowed to police themselves, which is what happens right now, because clearly they’re not taking that role seriously.”


“Every step of the way, the US is helping and facilitating and enabling this coalition to continue bombing Yemen.”


“Oil and gas has, for a long time, pressured financial regulators, pressured bank regulators, to adopt essentially biased rules.”


“Rich companies with armies of consultants…are going to come in and grab every piece of money laying on the table they can.”


“The first thing is that sanctions, their impact is devastating in ways that are at least similar and often worse than armed combat.”


“When we talk about gender-affirming care, it’s not an ambiguous, abstract concept. It is medically necessary, life-saving care.”

FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
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