FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The rise of “fake news” has led many to return to the idea of objectivity, blaming partisanship rather than sloppiness (or malice) for the spread of disinformation. Yet it has seemed many times since Trump’s election that the norms and practices of objective media are uniquely unsuited to covering the news in unreal times.
When well-heeled centrist politicians like Hillary Clinton are fetishized by the savvy press, it is real issues that are kept out of the news—and out of the electoral process itself.
Like much of the reporting on the rest of the economy, coverage of housing is coverage of housing markets, rather than of the circumstances that all too many people still face.
