FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“Resistance to public health measures often, in my view, reflects unmet need.”
“That’s the real problem here, is that workers pay taxes every two weeks and billionaires can basically never pay taxes.”
“Making conditions for people in the US better…is going to be an important part of our strategy to make the case for immigration.”
We would have work enough without news media dedicating themselves to putting up a rhetorical scrim between us and the things we need to understand and resist.
“Trump is saying he doesn’t care about whatever agreements we have, including the ones he signed.”
“It’s not as much about likes and clicks and algorithms, as much as it is about actually solving the problem.”
The journalistic response to “Why Would Trump Want Greenland?” is: It’s simple, and not at all weird.
“Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward.”
“Young people in Baltimore…are 5% of arrests..and yet almost 30% of the stories that identified the age of the offenders focused on young people.”
“It singles out a single app without really providing any justification why, and then they just say, ‘Congress picked this one.'”
“They’re trying to do everything in their ability to try to legitimize these killings, and dehumanize Palestinians.”
The narrow focus on whether a Big Mac costs 15 cents more, and if it does, shouldn’t you yell at the people behind the counter, is a distortion, and a tired one,
“So many of the issues with Amazon…are because we’ve lacked a lot of the regulatory mechanisms to contain it from ever becoming this big.”
“The jury found not that our clients ‘claimed’ that they were tortured, but that our clients *were* subjected to torture.”
“The industry makes these promises that they can’t keep. They’re telling you that this will solve your issues, but it’s not true.”
“You would expect journalists in a democratic society to take as the central story here that targeting of these minority groups.”
“It’s not very easy to disentangle [immigrants] from the work that we need to do as a country.”
“People will…use the filing of the lawsuit itself as its own form of proof, even though the lawsuit itself doesn’t contain proof.”
“We cannot say we are for press freedom when we are giving Israel the guns it assassinates Palestinian journalists with.”
“A lot of housing discrimination is enacted through things that don’t overtly appear to be about race, and may not even directly appear to be about housing.”
