FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The Chinese government’s ability to set the terms of free speech in the US media and entertainment sphere is surely alarming. However, fears of Chinese censorship might be overreported in comparison with the long history in the US of media censorship at the behest of the US military, government agencies and other foreign countries.
YouTube’s decision seems to solidify that the video platform will continue to be a welcoming home for channels that promote hate speech and harassment, and serve as a conduit for laundering far-right ideology—as long as those channels continue to make YouTube money.
Election Focus 2020: Comcast, one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington, also owns MSNBC, which has showered Joe Biden with favorable coverage both before and since his announcement.
Clearly, left-wing violence is near nonexistent when compared to the rising levels of right-wing extremism.
Climate change took a backseat to other issues in this year’s midterm elections, and humanity may end up paying the price. The majority of climate change-related ballot measures failed, many climate deniers in the Republican party won or kept their seats, and even Democratic winners were not pressed on their commitment to climate change legislation […]
The political violence whipped up by the president, the GOP and their media apparatuses last week was treated by many in corporate media as just one shot in an ongoing duel between equally violent left and right extremist fringes.
Looming over the Washington Post’s coverage of the Maryland governor’s race is Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s ingratiating support for Amazon, the e-commerce giant owned by the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, who also happens to own the Washington Post.
The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party received a flurry of negative coverage by corporate media that focused on progressives’ supposed inability to defeat Democratic incumbents in primary elections.
While many outlets—mostly on the liberal or left end of the media spectrum—have addressed the recent perjury allegations against Kavanaugh in depth, establishment outlets like the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post and NPR have so far been quite cagey about the issue.
Thanks to the exposure from his dismissal from the festival, Steve Bannon and his followers on the right can continue to claim that they are being censored for having “conservative” views.
Even if today’s socialist wing of the Democratic Party hasn’t won every underdog primary race against better-funded centrist opponents, it is apparent that progressives are winning the battle of ideas within the party.
Even if today’s socialist wing of the Democratic Party hasn’t won every underdog primary race against better-funded centrist opponents, it is apparent that progressives are winning the battle of ideas within the party.
Please send your suggestions to MSNBC about who would make better guests than mercenary entrepreneurs, former CIA directors and white nationalists.
Scary headlines missed an important point about a new study: In terms of total spending on healthcare, Sanders’ Medicare for All plan is actually projected to cost $2.1 trillion less than projections of spending under the current US healthcare system.
Much media coverage of immigration misses out on why large numbers of people from the Northern Triangle are migrating to the US in the first place. Over the past three generations, the Northern Triangle countries, long marked by profound levels of inequality, have each experienced horribly destructive civil wars and military coups–with the US intimately involved in each of these.
The Economist maintains that while Sanders is indeed the most popular politician in America, his time in the sun has passed, and that the popularity of his brand of progressive populism is vastly overstated.
Tesla’s CEO has taken aim at the very press that has lauded his vision and business acumen in the past, and provided him the initial platform for converting readers and viewers into True Musk Believers.
Several media outlets left out Barney Frank’s role as a bank board member while quoting him downplaying the magnitude of the Dodd/Frank rollback.
The media’s focus on Scott Pruitt’s dizzying array of personal scandals obscures his absolute contempt for his agency’s stated mission: environmental protection.
Waves of consolidation in the technology, telecom and entertainment industries have concentrated power over media content and delivery into just a handful of companies. Today, there are only a few dominant players in each industry.
