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The New York Times might have pointed out that the accusation that Palestinians murdering Jewish Israelis is a “more common scourge” is an absolute inversion of reality.
Election Focus 2020: The false impression that Trump was a moderate Republican on economic issues left voters free to be swayed by his appeal to a white racial identity.
At FAIR, we’ve been following Jonathan Weisman’s career for quite some time, and “lapses of judgment” seem to be par for the course for him.
The historical amnesia that allows people to be surprised that Ronald Reagan was a racist does more than sanitize the image of a historical figure. If you imagine that Donald Trump invented the political technique of appealing to white supremacy, you’re going to have a hard time figuring out an effective way to overcome it.
Election Focus 2020: According to the New York Times’ Upshot, Democratic candidates are proposing solutions to a student debt problem that has largely already been solved.
Election Focus 2020: Thomas Edsall is playing a shell game—lumping self-identified black and white “moderates” and “conservatives” together, even though they have very different policy preferences, and then using the amalgamated opinion to generalize about what African Americans really want.
Election Focus 2020: Being Wall Street’s favorite is not a good look, the financial industry being deeply unpopular with voters, particularly Democratic ones. So Buttigieg is being rebranded as a fundraiser who brings everyone together, rich and not so rich alike.
New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait calls it an “absurdly lax standard” to count pundits as being pro–regime change if they endorse regime change.
Washington Post editor Martin Baron responded to FAIR’s recent action alert calling on the Washington Post to acknowledge the role of CIA deception in fueling distrust of vaccination in Pakistan.
Election Focus 2020: Democratic hopefuls’ TV news mentions track fairly closely with the candidates’ positions in the polls.
The ability to communicate horizontally allows us to have conversations about politics that we’ve always needed and never have had until now.
NPR’s Morning Edition turned for commentary on the Christchurch massacre to a source who couldn’t remember people ever being murdered in a mosque before.
If you’re thinking that Facebook–90 percent of whose customers are not in the United States–should treat Russian-backed outlets differently than US-backed outlets because the US supports peace and democracy, or doesn’t use social media to try to manipulate other nations…. Well, this is why it’s important to get your information from a variety of sources.
You know you’ve lived well—well enough to rattle the establishment—when the New York Times smears you in the obituary it runs about you (FAIR.org, 6/20/13). That distinction was achieved by William Blum, historian and critic of US foreign policy. Once a State Department computer programmer who aspired to “take part in the great anti-Communist […]
“Move to the right” is always corporate media’s advice for Democrats—win or lose. But did the 2018 midterms really demonstrate the virtues of moderation?
“Move to the right” is always corporate media’s advice for Democrats—win or lose. But did the 2018 midterms really demonstrate the virtues of moderation?
Please ask USA Today not to inflame the gun control debate with clickbait headlines.
Please tell USA Today to mention climate change prominently when it reports on signs of record-breaking winter warming.
Whatever the motivation, billionaires buying up media is another step toward oligarchy, as a handful of super-wealthy individuals assume power over crucial news outlets, both locally and nationally.
News audiences were rarely informed about the contribution of human-caused climate disruption to the devastating storm, according to a study of hurricane coverage by Public Citizen.
