FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Rather than explore the full extent of the Trumpist lurch towards authoritarianism, much of which is palpable and documentable but not necessarily “provable” in the way the Ukrainian extortion scheme is, the New York Times has gone all in on the obsession with the smoking gun.
Election Focus 2020: If media are going to celebrate Bloomberg’s achievements as an executive, they need to address his baggage in those roles as well. The media crowing for Bloomberg’s sensible executive skills leave out several notable scandals during his mayoralty.
The circumscribed coverage of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death represented yet another artful evasion of any critical discussion of imperial foreign policy.
Election Focus 2020: Even in the Trump era, corporate media, forever insistent on an “objective” approach that always hears out “both sides,” continue to exhibit a dangerous blindness to their own biases.
Election Focus 2020: It’s as if the New York Times can’t resist slipping in gratuitous digs at Bernie Sanders any chance it gets, even as the world burns.
Who determines whether we live in a “strong economy,” and what metrics should we use to find out?
Editorials read as though it were a settled fact that the Morales government stole the election, though there’s a paucity of evidence to believe that that’s what happened.
Fighting “fake news” is not only urgent, it’s also a big business. But are students being taught to think critically? And what kind of news consumers are produced by these courses and tools?
Guides to “deals and freebies” for veterans are a missed opportunity to recall the roots of the holiday.
Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation.
Despite the evidence of Lula’s innocence and illegal persecution, with the cooperation of the US DoJ, to remove him from the 2018 presidential elections, establishment media cling to a false narrative.
Election Focus 2020: Support for progressive candidates in battleground states should give any journalist pause before drawing the conclusion that those voters are “counseling” pursuit of the so-called middle ground.
Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not how corporate media are presenting the weekend’s events in Bolivia.
Dividing people by age rather than class has an intrinsic appeal to corporate media outlets owned by the wealthy elite of this country.
The question about the former Deadspin workers isn’t just what’s next for them; it’s also about what’s next for us, the media consumers who need their voices so badly.
Election Focus 2020: Thomas Edsall looks at evidence that Trump won because of his “aversion to political correctness,” and concludes that jumping on that train is how Democrats will win back the “swing electorate.”
Media bias in favor of Chile’s hardline neoliberal administration contrasts with efforts by US corporate media to revoke left-wing Bolivia’s democratic credentials.
Again and again during Trump’s presidency, corporate media have fallen over themselves to find acceptable ways to describe utterly unacceptable behavior, policies and decisions—none more so than the New York Times.
There has been no mention of journalist Max Blumenthal’s arrest in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post and Reuters that constantly publish Venezuela-related content, or by the big “press freedom” NGOs.
When official enemies can be presented as evil and allies as sympathetic victims, corporate media will be very interested in a story. In contrast, they will show far less enthusiasm for a story when the “wrong” people are the villains or the victims.
