Both-Sidesing the Stimulus Bill
Corporate media tossed the long history of Mitch McConnell’s intransigence completely down the memory hole when negotiations began again in earnest in recent weeks.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Erases US Economic War Against Venezuela
Please remind the New York Times that as a US paper, it has an obligation to cover the effects of US government policy on countries like Venezuela.
A CIA Officer Has a Headache. Media Blame Russia.
With tremendously high stakes, media rely largely on the testimonies of US officials, many of them anonymous, who have a clear incentive to lie and defame three countries with whom the United States is currently ramping up tensions.
The Real Crime Isn’t Australian War Crimes—but a Chinese Political Cartoon About Australian War Crimes
Western media vilified a Chinese official for sharing a political cartoon criticizing recently reported Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
Not All Media Literacy Programs Are Created Equal—and Most Have Yet to Be Created
Many media literacy programs are actually funded by large corporations and feature advice from corporate news outlets that uphold simplified, status quo standards of “objectivity” without teaching students how to analyze power dynamics, profit motives or their own internal beliefs and biases.
‘US Leadership’—and Other Euphemisms for War
Joe Biden doesn’t become president for a month and a half, but already sections of the corporate media are calling on him to use US power to dominate the world.
NYT Cheerleads School Reopening as Covid Spikes
New York’s mayor’s dubious plan to reopen schools has found the New York Times to be its best form of public relations.
ACTION ALERT: At NYT, Now You See Corporate Influence, Now You Don’t
By assigning particular reporters to the “corporate influence” beat, the New York Times seems to let others reporters off the hook in terms of providing relevant information about officials’ corporate influences.
Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua
Misleading and inaccurate reports about Nicaraguan beef could have drastic consequences for that country when it is already struggling to deal with US sanctions, the pandemic and the aftermath of two damaging hurricanes.
Critics of Canceling Student Debt Aren’t Afraid It Won’t Work—They’re Afraid It Will
Canceling student debt doesn’t negate other policies that would benefit blue-collar workers or the unemployed.
When an Official Enemy Is Assassinated, Corporate Media Roll Out the Pretexts
Even those accusations that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh took part in a now-defunct weapons program are largely based on fabricated evidence.
Greenwald Splits With Intercept Over Visions of Editing
Both sides appear to have irreconcilable visions of the role of editors in the journalistic process.
NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
NPR gave readers a variety of viewpoints, giving the readers the choice of which set of facts they want to accept as true.
Corporate Media Begin to Acknowledge GOP Coup Attempt
in the past few days, it seems corporate media have decided to report on Trump’s attempts to subvert the election and overturn its results as a fact, not as a matter of opinion.
Latinx Voting Surge Boosted Biden’s Victory—but That’s Not the Story Corporate Media Want to Tell
The fact that in a few places in Texas and Florida, the Latinx vote appeared to move toward the right hardly negates the fact that the overall Latinx vote grew tremendously, and those votes overall went by large margins to the Democrats.
Crying Wolf on Election Fraud Is OK at NYT—if Targets Are Official Enemies
For the New York Times, crying election fraud then staging a coup is bad, and just like what dictators do—unless it is the US making dubious claims of electoral fraud against official enemies, in which case it is an honorable practice.
Media’s Messaging Debate Eclipses Policies—and the Crises They Address
In coverage of Democratic positions on healthcare and climate change, the overwhelming emphasis was on electoral strategy, and not on the problems these policy proposals were designed to solve.
New York‘s Chait Boosts Charter Schools—but No Longer Mentions Spouse’s Policy Role in Charter School Industry
As FAIR has reported on numerous occasions going back decades, nondisclosure of conflicts can easily lead to a lack of trust in media—earned or not.
Drawing All the Wrong Lessons From Media’s Election 2020 Failures
These stories, with their palpable fear of coming across as disrespectful or condescending, only make things worse, by creating an uncritical echo chamber for racist and xenophobic perspectives.
Absolving Trump Means Erasing the Harm Done to Millions
The call to coddle Trump—like the same outlets’ insistence that it would be mean to send bankers whose fraud derailed the economy to jail—is evidence of the total divorce between real people’s lives and experiences, and the puppets and caricatures in media’s narrative.
