FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
This week on FAIR TV: ABC’s embarrassing mistake in its Gaza coverage, This Week touts a right-wing conspiracy film and CBS presents viewers with the story of the risk-taking billionaire CEO who is cutting thousands of jobs.
To the extent that Anya Kamenetz’s tweet reflected “innocence,” it’s of a sort people of color and women can ill afford from journalists,
On the show this week: The idea that the surge of US troops is what ‘won’ the Iraq War shouldn’t be treated as if it’s a fact. Plus we look at who NBC tapped for his Iraq/Iran expertise, and media tried to tell us what we need to know about a powerful Republican lawmaker. They failed.
This week: Media cover right-wing domestic terrorism–without calling it terrorism. Plus CNN’s left/right discussion of Israeli occupation left a lot to be desired, and USA Today calls Walmart protesters “party poopers.” Watch:
The TV networks fail to note US hypocrisy in Chinese spying indictments. Climate change is missing from California fire reports. And NBC’s “real people” are remarkably white and conservative.
This week on the show: CNN brings back Crossfire–but isn’t it time to stop “debating” climate change? Plus a look at big media leaving the CIA out of their reporting on the resurgence of polio, while ABC News brings viewers an infomercial for parent company Disney.
Perhaps media aren’t driven to challenge Ryan’s bona fides as a “big-ideas guy” because they share those big ideas.
The New York Times has a big exclusive on Russia–and quietly walked it back a few days later. David Brooks offers his thoughts on the Mideast and Obama’s “manhood,” CNN finds a guest who says innocent civilians don’t die in drone strikes.
Russian troops are massing on the border with Ukraine, set to invade–so say corporate media, relying on unnamed intelligence sources. Plus straight-talking Chris Christie apologizes for straight talk, and the Washington Post’s scoop on CIA torture can’t say the word “torture.”
Tracing the “Putin is delusional” storyline. CBS gives viewers an energy expert who just so happens to work for the oil industry. And there’s good economic news: We’re all rich again! Well, not all of us.
Pundits were mad about the news that Barack Obama was backing away from “chained CPI” Social Security cuts. An announcement about troop cuts caused some reporters to panic. And Arizona’s discriminatory SB 1062 is given the “some say” media treatment.
While the only questions regarding Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s prosecution appear to be where and when, things were different when it came to prosecuting the institution that supported what Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton called “the lifeblood” of the Sinoloa Cartel’s operations.
On the show this week: The national media missed then tens of thousands who marched for social justice in North Carolina last weekend. Plus USA Today shows us that bad campaign reporting starts really early, and journalist David Sirota is exposing a peculiar funding arrangement at PBS. Watch:
Maybe when you’re selling drugs for more than four or five times what some of your for-profit competitors are charging, you can afford to “sacrifice.”
Private corporations care very much about the content of the news they sponsor or, as outlet owners, produce—that it not be too downbeat, or provide a platform for anyone asking hard questions about corporate America.
Food stamp cuts are an encouraging sign of bipartisanship, according to some media accounts. And journalists are fascinated by the “real” Mitt Romney. Plus a domestic terror trial that’s not getting much press attention–perhaps because the terror suspects aren’t Muslims.
While there have been substantive inquiries into the wrongdoing of investment banks and auditors, those calling for jail time are often dismissed as irrational, driven by “blood lust,” “anger” or “vengeance.”
This week on FAIR TV: What are media missing in their tributes to Nelson Mandela? We share a few thoughts. Also: USA Today‘s front page told readers that the US public is mostly opposed to the tentative deal on Iran’s nuclear program. That’s not what most other polls are saying. We’ll explain why.
This week on FAIR TV: Obamacare is like Hurricane Katrina? No, says one pundit: It’s like Obama’s Iraq War. Also this week: The Washington Post does PR for Paul Ryan as a poverty fighter, and CNN responds to its unbalanced pro-nuclear documentary with…a pro-nuke panel discussion.
CounterSpin’s Janine Jackson talked to Laura Gottesdiener, author of A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, a new book that brings the foreclosure crisis into vivid focus.
