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A New York Times story headlined “Poll Finds Support for de Blasio, if Not All His Ideas” could have more accurately been called “Poll Finds Support for de Blasio, Along With Most of His Ideas”
CBS should have tried to settle whether there’s any actual evidence that widespread cheating of the disability program is going on. CBS was either uninterested in that, or decided that its stacked panel of talking heads provided the answer they wanted to hear.
This week on FAIR TV: Media should take a side on who’s causing the government shutdown. CBS Evening News wonders what happened to global warming. And Brian Williams can’t believe the stunning shift from Iran on nuclear weapons–so who was this Brian Williams guy who was was reporting on the “new line” from Iran years […]
It’s not easy to summarize a half century of more of history, but the items selected by Time to represent key events in US/Iranian relations are more than a little curious.
Media like to dismiss the partisan “blame game,” but in cases like this placing blame is something that journalism ought to do.
When the government proclaimed the existence of a somewhat vague but extraordinarily dangerous new terrorist threat from a branch of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, it provided an opportunity to link NSA snooping to a War on Terror “success”—and many in the corporate media were all too happy to play along.
A helpful report would debunk the long-running, completely inaccurate meme among climate change deniers that global warming has stopped. But CBS correspondent Mark Phillips doesn’t really seem to be trying to be helpful.
Today the Washington Post (10/1/13) has a piece about how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not pleased with the thaw in US/Iran relations. That’s not surprising. But I was a little surprised that reporters David Nakamura and William Booth allowed this: Israeli leaders fear that the international community, and the United States in particular, […]
NBC Nighly News reports that Iran is “suddenly” claiming it doesn’t want nuclear weapons. But that’s what they have been claiming–and NBC has been reporting– for years.
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen offered some reasons to be skeptical of what we’re hearing from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. He is, after all, Muslim.
FAIR’s latest alert documents the conflict of interest concerning the new Jerusalem correspondent at the Washington Post. If you’re writing to the paper and want to share your letter, please do so in the comments section below.
The federal government is taking more of our money; it’s actually taking less than average. So why does Bill O’Reilly think otherwise? It might be due to the fact that people like him are paying a little more this year.
Meet the Press host David Gregory tried to take a different approach from his colleague Chuck Todd. Unfortunately, his attempted factcheck didn’t really clarify much.
Henry Kissinger counts on his friends in the elite media to not bother him with questions about his past.
Yesterday in USA Today (9/22/13), Aamer Madhani wrote this about the challenges facing Barack Obama: The president is also trying to take advantage of a diplomatic opening—created by the installation of a new, more moderate president in Iran—to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear weapons program. As you might know by now, this is misleading; […]
This month, CNN brought back its left-right debate show Crossfire. But is one of the left co-hosts representing the progressive viewpoint–or the White House? Stephanie Cutter was a campaign strategist for the 2012 Obama campaign, and currently heads up a PR firm called Precision Strategies. But while the premise of the CNN show is that […]
FAIR’s recent Action Alert takes a look at the relationship between CNN “left” host Stephanie Cutter and the Obama White House. If you think this is something CNN needs to explain, send them a message–and copy that message in the comments section below.
Whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, and mass shooters Nidal Hassan and Aaron Alexis: Time wonders how these four dangerous individuals managed to slip through the system?
USA Today shows readers how balance can mislead. CNN has a host “from the left”– but is she really “from the White House”? And Chuck Todd gives viewers some sense of how he defines his job. We’ll compare that with an MSNBC commercial where Todd sounds pretty high-minded about what his journalism is supposed to […]
If the big news here is that the president of Iran is saying the country is not developing nuclear weapons, and does not ever intend to do so, that’s not really news.
