Corporate Media Offer Excuses for ‘Powerless’ Democrats
In the face of an authoritarian administrative coup, corporate media give cover to elected representatives whose duty is to uphold the Constitution.
Julie Hollar
As Constitutional Crises Mount, US Press Sleepwalks Into Autocracy
The New York Times and Washington Post largely downplayed the Trump administration’s earth-shattering break from democratic norms.
ACTION ALERT: When Trump Tried to Freeze Federal Funds, WaPo Saw Not Illegality But ‘Determination’
When Trump usurped Congress’s power of the purse, the Beltway paper declared this “highlights” the administration’s “determination.”
As Trump II Begins, Bezos Swaps Scrutiny for ‘Storytelling’
The new direction sounds like the Foxification of the Washington Post, a move away from any attempt to hold the powerful to account and toward inexpensive clickbait punditry.
Press Downplays Danger of Supreme Court Case That Threatens Trans Rights—Among Others
Instead of holding those in power accountable for their attacks on minority groups, many in the press corps will happily join in on the attacks.
NPR’s ‘Balance’ Serves to Normalize Trump’s Highly Abnormal Cabinet Picks
NPR’s coverage of Trump’s nominees so far suggests that it has no interest in using the power of the so-far-still-free press to preserve democratic institutions.
Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model
Coverage of issues in this election season dovetailed well with the Trump campaign’s lines of attack against the Biden/Harris administration.
WaPo Says Not to Worry About Climate Disruption’s Disastrous Costs:
Reassuring report based on long-debunked climate contrarian
The Washington Post’s “Climate Lab” seems to be working hard to cast doubt on whether climate change is really causing weather disasters to be more expensive.
CPB Funds Ideological Overseers at NPR in Response to Right-Wing Criticism
CPB declared it was giving NPR $1.9 million in “editorial enhancement” funding–using language that reads as a direct response to the recent right-wing criticism.
Media Urge Expansion of Ukraine War—Nuclear Risk Be Damned
Despite the risks of escalation, Biden’s public reluctance to loosen limits on Ukrainian use of US missiles has been met in the war-hungry media primarily with derision.
CNN’s Tapper Smears Tlaib With Baseless Charge of Bias
CNN’s Jake Tapper took a baseless accusation made on X and elevated it to a national story, smearing Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib as antisemitic.
What Did ABC Think Voters Needed to Hear From Harris and Trump?
ABC asked some surprisingly pointed questions about perhaps the most important issue in this election—the preservation of democratic elections themselves.
Not Reporting on Trump as a Threat to Democracy Is Also a Threat to Democracy
Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.
NYT’s Predictable Advice for Kamala Harris: Go Right
As the Democratic Party began to coalesce behind Kamala Harris, the New York Times quickly put forward the knee-jerk corporate media prescription for Democratic candidates: Move to the right.
Trump’s Shooting Should Not Silence Warnings About His Threat to Democracy
Rather than denouncing the right’s hypocritical and opportunistic attacks on critical speech, the country’s top editorial boards cravenly bothsidesed their condemnations of “political violence.”
CNN’s Debate Plan Makes Democracy the Likely Loser
Of the major nonpartisan news networks (i.e., excluding Fox), CNN is perhaps the least fit to host a presidential debate.
NYT Misses What’s True and Important About an Anti-Trans School Resolution
Like most New York Times articles about trans politics that FAIR has analyzed, the piece marginalized the voices of those most impacted.
GOP Grilling NPR Is a Tired Ritual That Needs to Be Rejected
The primary “intractable bias” public broadcasting suffers from is toward the same elites that dominate the rest of establishment media.
As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies
CNN offered some of the most striking characterizations of student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid.
In Unhiring Ronna McDaniel, NBC Made the Right Move for the Wrong Reason
It’s heartening that pushback from journalists forced a reversal, but the network’s hiring decision was shameful in the first place.
