FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Here’s Sarah Palin misquoting her coffee cup: I’m reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day…. It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador…. Now she said it, I didn’t. She said, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.” It’s […]
The latest instance of the classic politician-journalist-politician feedback loop is completed when the New York Times‘ David Carr quotes Michael Bloomberg (10/5/08) citing a Times editorial that backed their rich mayor friend’s bid to legalize a third term for himself: “‘But as newspaper editorialists and others have pointed out,’ he said, ‘the current law denies […]
Almost as useless as not fact-checking politicians’ statements at all is to insist on presenting fact-checks as though both sides are equally guilty—a classic form of false balance that gives a big advantage to whomever happens to be the biggest liar. In this genre we find “Facts Go Adrift on Taxes, Energy in VP Debate: […]
The funny thing about the New York Times editorial yesterday about getting rid of term limits (10/1/08) is that the Times editorial board members no doubt tell themselves that they make up their own minds on issues based on the merits, not on whom their boss has had dinner with. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal […]
The American News Project‘s Harry Hanbury reports (10/1/08) that “by now millions of Americans have seen the video clips where [GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah] Palin… prays the Iraq war will be revealed as a task from God.” The ANP video even shows Palin praying “that our… national leaders, are sending them [occupation soldiers] out […]
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg began to pave the way for tossing out term limits and running for a third term, the first place he went was to his fellow media moguls (New York Times, 8/23/08): Even as he publicly remains coy about his political future, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has quietly approached some […]
To illustrate what he deems corporate media’s “arbitrary and often contradictory standards set for Barack Obama as a black candidate,” Tapped blogger Adam Serwer (9/26/08) quotes a New York Times “Political Memo” by Patrick Healy that complains the candidate “is sometimes out of sync with the visceral anger of Americans who are losing their jobs […]
“Feeding frenzy” was a term that kept coming up whenever media critics dissected the collective behavior of the television press during the never-ending year of Monica news. You saw the pictures: camera crews surrounding grand-jury witnesses, hurling questions, often blocking their way to get a closer shot. Many witnesses needed escorts to get through what […]
