FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Buried deep in a New York Times story (1/30/01) about the brutal murder of Dartmouth professors Susanne and Half Zantop, resides a common prejudice linking violence with mental illness. Speculating on the reason for the attack, the paper noted that Half Zantop “had once tried to help a mentally ill young man.” When two local […]
With competing political agendas ready to balkanize public education, reporting on test scores is no less important than reporting on campaign contributions, corporate balance sheets or federal budget numbers. More so, in fact, because the “facts” of test numbers are often used to adorn arguments that cannot otherwise justify attention. A case in point is […]
