FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“The report, if true, would starkly illustrate the brutal extent to which the young North Korean leader is going to consolidate power.” And if it isn’t true, it would starkly illustrate the low standards the Washington Post has for reporting on official enemies.
After FAIR pointed out that NBC’s Meet the Press had ignored Sen. Bernie Sanders since the senator’s appearance on the Sunday show last fall, the senator and presidential candidate was talked about on the show’s very next episode
When conservatives win elections, the US press invariably reports that the lesson for liberals is to move to the right. That’s true not only in domestic elections but overseas ones as well–as with last week’s balloting for the British Parliament.
Why treat the presidential contest as though there’s a race for the Republican spot, while Democrats only get to express their feelings about their one predetermined choice?
in 1968, Time was unlikely to compare current events to things that happened 47 years earlier, in 1921–before most people alive then were born.
Elite journalists work for corporate news outlets that are designed to bolster power rather than challenge it. Whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden upset the sources of elite journalists’ power.
The literature that justifies or encourages war is not divorced from the responsibility for the cause of war itself.
The Washington Post calls Freddie Gray “the nation’s most prominent symbol of distrust in police.” The Post can’t call him a symbol of police violence, because as far as the paper is concerned, there’s no way to tell whether any police violence occurred at all.
An issue in coverage of climate change and extreme weather, illustrated by a New York Times story (represented here by a Boston Globe reprint, because the issue was fixed in the original Times story).
You would never know, reading Greg Mankiw’s piece, that many economists in fact oppose TPP and fast track. Or that economists can and do reject the characterization of TPP and the like as “free trade” bills.
The most improbable part of the Daredevil superhero series is the New York City tabloid editor who objects to a story about a gang war because people don’t like to read crime stories.
The basis for referring to Clinton as a “Bolshevik” is her healthcare reform plan–a plan that was specifically designed to maintain the role of private insurance companies in the healthcare system.
The New York Times has a post by Neil Irwin headlined “Why Americans Don’t Want to Soak the Rich.” But looking at polling over time on taxing the wealthy, what’s striking is how consistently popular it is.
It’s the unanswered question “compared to what?” that makes USA Today’s lead story, “Soldiers Hate Their Jobs,” a prime example of pseudo-news.
When you have arguably the US’s most prestigious for-profit media outlet describing government propaganda as “efforts to counter propaganda,” it’s pretty clear that the nation’s demand for propaganda is going to be met–whether by the public or the private sector.
One way to try to get around Google’s rules against recycling other outlets’ content is to automatically replace random words in the pilfered articles with synonyms. This works about as well as you might guess.
Regardless of whether the deputies are indicted or not, they are public employees under whose custody a community member died; it’s unclear why the public has no legitimate interest in knowing who they are.
CNN ran a story about “Russian hackers” getting into the White House computer system that needed to get out of the White House PR system.
Time presents an op-ed by former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren that’s an extended analogy likening negotiating with Iran to dealing with a Middle Eastern rug merchant:
The New York Times’ Ross Douthat acknowledges the obvious parallel between gay and interracial marriage–and meets it head on with a full helping of historical ignorance.
