FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
USA Today’s headline was “GOP Calls New Benghazi E-Mail ‘Smoking Gun.'” What the memo actually proves is that “scandal” is defined as any deviation from the fantasy world jointly created by the Republican Party and its media accomplices.
New York Times op-ed writers shed crocodile tears over the prospect that climate advocates they have done their level best to undermine might not be getting their message out effectively.
When the Washington Post’s David Ignatius writes a column headlined “Putin Steals the CIA’s Playbook on Anti-Soviet Covert Operations,” is that supposed to be a criticism or a compliment?
The point of contribution limits isn’t to make elections cheaper; it’s to limit the ability of the very wealthy to dominate politics.
US intelligence claims about a Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border are just that–claims. On NBC Nightly News, however, anchor Brian Williams and Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski not only took these claims as gospel, they used them as the jumping off point for alarmist speculation.
Josh Marshall announces that Idea Lab: Impact will be “sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.” Yes, PhRMA, the lobbying group that has helped make the marketing of medicine one of the most profitable industries in America.
The Washington Post describes state efforts to make sure poor recipients remain eligible for food stamp benefits as a “loophole…potentially wiping out billions of dollars in savings Congress agreed to last month.”
The “usual measurement” offered by columnist Richard Cohen as proof of the value of charter schools offers no evidence that charter school students are any better off at all.
To maintain a simple good vs. evil framework, the fact that Ukraine’s neo-fascist movement had a significant role in the opposition to Yanukovych–and the government that replaced him–was downplayed or even outright denied.
New York Times media columnist David Carr (2/24/14) seems to think the relationship between CNN and Piers Morgan was doomed from the start: It’s been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who refuses to assimilate—the only football he cares about is round and his lectures on guns were rife with contempt—and a CNN […]
How trustworthy are reports that “state-sponsored paramilitaries” are “shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting” against the government of Venezuela?
Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer had a classic example of anti-populist populism.
Because it is a mere 1,000 days until the election, USA Today’s Susan Page tries to predict the 2016 presidential campaign.
Unscientific claims about Bigfoot can get published in the Weekly World News. Unscientific claims about cannabis get a column in USA Today.
Kurt Cobain called FAIR “an underground leftist organization that tries to expose the truths,” saying we had “been working for years to expose a lot of injustices.”
Why does AP still let Calvin Woodward “factcheck” political speeches? Does no one at the news service know what actual factchecking looks like? (If you’re coming in late, see FAIR Blog, 10/30/08, 2/25/09, 4/30/09, 1/28/10, 8/31/12.) Woodward’s latest venture (1/29/14) into the factcheck genre, following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, produced […]
Bill O’Reilly’s message on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was that blacks “have a much tougher time succeeding in the marketplace” because they don’t “study and work hard.”
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria– with an assist from the Wall Street Journal–divided Latin American economies into winners and losers. But does it all add up?
In his obituary for Nelson Mandela, the Times’ Bill Keller went into detail about Mandela’s armed efforts to overthrow the apartheid state–seemingly in an effort to belittle them.
The name of the CIA’s station chief in Pakistan is out, and it’s been out for a long time; concealing it from US readers doesn’t make anyone any safer. But it does help bolster the cult of secrecy,
