FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Corporate news outlets consistently elevate the views of specific economists who serve particular ideological interests, even over the views of the academic profession as a whole.
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
Coverage of the US/Israeli assault on Lebanon has evinced a casual disregard for Lebanese lives, and often an outright zest for killing the country’s people.
The more a strike affects the economy, i.e., the more effective it is, the harder corporate media try to smear workers as selfish and destructive.
Despite the risks of escalation, Biden’s public reluctance to loosen limits on Ukrainian use of US missiles has been met in the war-hungry media primarily with derision.
Musk’s Twitter is keeping certain information out of the public view—information that just happens to damage the presidential ticket he supports.
A US circuit court panel appears ready to uphold a federal law that would effectively ban the popular social media network TikTok.
By exploiting a lack of information, pollsters create the illusion of strong public support.
Debates over whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s economic proposals constitute Communist price controls or merely technocratic consumer protections are obscuring a more insidious thread within corporate media. In coverage of Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal, it’s taken for granted that price inflation, especially in the grocery sector, is an organic and unavoidable result of market forces, […]
The Wall Street Journal comes out against journalism that exposes how powerful institutions function.
A FAIR study of US newspapers found the overwhelming majority of times the vague term “identity politics” was mentioned, it was referring to Democrats and the left.
ABC asked some surprisingly pointed questions about perhaps the most important issue in this election—the preservation of democratic elections themselves.
Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.
Free speech debates tend to value the importance and rights to a platform of the saintly media class.
France has gone nearly two months without a legitimate government, and US corporate media don’t seem to care to report on it.
Media outlets promise comprehensive news alerts about important breaking stories occurring everywhere—but that’s not what subscribers are getting.
Coverage of the Golan Heights massacre continues a long trend of US media outlets obscuring and distorting reality in order to downplay Israel’s aggressive regional ambitions.
The specific policies the New York Times scolds Bernie Sanders for promoting don’t seem to be particularly unpopular, with moderates or anyone else.
Phil Donahue was a trailblazer in bringing social issues to a national audience as a daytime broadcast TV host, and then he was pretty much banished from TV by MSNBC.
A new FAIR study finds that media conversations about student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine rarely included students themselves.
