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Politico has discovered the perfect fix for the American economy–a set of policies that would create a jobs boom,if our political leaders would summon the courage to act. What’s the plan? Cut Social Security and Medicare, lower corporate taxes, and encourage more fracking.
When Meet the Press needed an expert to talk about Syria’s chemical weapons, they turned to Jeffrey Goldberg– who got Iraq’s WMDs spectacularly wrong.
The stories that came out due to the information Bradley Manning allegedly leaked have been explosive, front page news. But his trial? Not so much. And Maria Bartiromo told Meet the Press that tax increases on the wealthy are really tax increases for everyone. And why was a Starbucks $450 gift card front page news […]
The theatrics of WMD claims about Syria–satellite images, anonymous sources and so on–are obviously reminiscent of the lead up to the Iraq War. But media stress that this time–it’s different.
USA Today’s cover story today is a moving piece by Marisol Bello headlined, “For the Poor, ‘Recovery’ Is a Mirage.” And then, right beneath this story, another bit of front-page news: a glimpse of an entirely different world.
There seems to be an expectation in the Assange case that a dissident must take refuge with a government with a sterling human rights record. This message is conveyed by journalists whose own country has detained, harassed and killed their journalistic colleagues.
The notion, coming from CBS reporter Anna Werner, that come January 1 an average family will be stuck with a bill for $3,500 is misleading–a deception in some sense borrowed from the faulty “cliff” analogy in the first place.
Bradley Manning is accused of leaking incredibly vital information that made headlines around the world. But the developments at his trial last week were evidently not newsworthy.
Meet the Press hosted what David Gregory dubbed a “special economic roundtable” on December 2 that included “CNBC‘s dynamic duo,” Maria Bartiromo and Jim Cramer. But Bartiromo’s comments about tax increases for the wealthy needed a factcheck. She started by making a familiar conservative point about the so-called “fiscal cliff”—that the White House talks about […]
Reporters appear to be wedded to a set of “rules” that say they are not allowed to convey reality to their readers and viewers.
The new episode of FAIR TV is here! CBS tells us what CEOs think about the “fiscal cliff” and the New York Times counts drone victims– but not very many of them. And did the Associated Press fall for a hoax with their latest “exclusive” on Iran and nuclear weapons? Check it out– and share […]
The New York Times editorial page (11/30/12) weighs in on the Obama administration’s drone policies. What the paper wants is more accountability: The government “must stay within formal guidelines based on the rule of law.” That’s all well and good—but the paper should do a better job of counting the innocents killed by drone attacks. […]
Of all the arguments Republicans offer to maintain Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, one stands out: The tax increase would be a blow to small business owners. This is misleading–but you can’t count on media to get this right. The CBS Evening News had a segment last night (11/29/12) taking a look at the […]
Crack open USA Today (11/28/12) and you saw this headline: Diagram Suggests Iran Working on Bomb The story was short–short enough for a careful reader to see that it in no way lived up to that alarmist headline. But the piece still tried really hard to frighten people. Here’s the lead: Iranian scientists have run […]
ABC World News has done two pretty tough reports from Brian Ross on the horrible fire at the Tazreen garment factory in Bangladesh that killed 114 workers. On November 25, Ross talked about the shameful record, as previously reported by ABC News, of more than 600 garment factory fire deaths in Bangladesh over the last […]
Not every politician gets a warm and fuzzy retirement profile in the New York Times. But not every politician is Joe Lieberman.
FAIR’s new alert takes CBS Evening News to task for relying heavily on CEOs associated with the corporate-backed Fix the Debt campaign in their recent reporting about the so-called “fiscal cliff.” If you’re sending an email to CBS, please consider pasting your message in the comments section below.
CBS Evening News has decided the best experts on the “fiscal cliff” are corporate CEOs who want to cut Social Security and Medicare. Let’s tell them what we think about that.
Readers of the New York Times were treated to correspondent Jodi Rudoren’s unusual critique of a funeral for members of the Dula family, whose home in Gaza City was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
Giving viewers a quick sense of context and history is important in any story, but especially in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Doing a bad job of it is perhaps worse than not doing it at all. CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley gave this summary on November 19: We wanted to remind you tonight of what […]
