FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Election Focus 2020: Just as coverage wondering whether female candidates and candidates of color are “electable” serves to heighten the very stereotypes and prejudices it purports to be passively observing, “how old is too old” stories draw on tired prejudices that need to be challenged by reporters, not reinforced by them.
An Atlantic essay’s main complaint about Chinese propaganda seems to be that Beijing is better at it than Washington.
After two people, one a police officer, were killed by the NYPD in the Bronx, the New York Times took its cue from law enforcement officials in shaping the early narrative around “gang violence”—impugning an entire neighborhood in the process.
Election Focus 2020: Centrist think tank Third Way commissioned an August poll on how to turn people off of Medicare for All, and one of the strongest tactics turned out to be emphasizing what the plan would cost taxpayers. Lo and behold, the tax line has become a central focus of media coverage of Medicare for All.
Bill Maher rose from being an “edgy,” opinionated comedian to becoming one of the most influential and recognizable faces in our media. His political talk show, Real Time With Bill Maher, has been on HBO since 2003, spanning 17 seasons with over 500 episodes to date. Real Time continues to be one of the […]
Lazy, one-sided reports like Newsweek’s “NATO Superiority Over Russia Has ‘Eroded,’ Forcing Alliance to Create New Strategy, US General Says,” are a major reason why US officials are still taken seriously when they demand further investments in the military/industrial complex.
In media Newspeak, “peace plan” is a propaganda term that only refers to whatever Washington is proposing at any given time.
What’s changed between 1974 and 2019? The biggest transformation was the realization of the longstanding Republican dream of a right-wing media network.
The theme of Richard Cohen’s final Washington Post column was how lucky he’s been in his career. And it’s been lucky for us at FAIR, too, in a sense—few in the media business have provided us with as much material over the years as he as.
Allegations of Chavista drug trafficking count among the corporate media’s favorite Venezuela soundbites. A new Wall Street Journal article rehashes the same claims, but extends them to taint late President Hugo Chávez, who is purported to have “wielded cocaine trafficking as a weapon.”
Election Focus 2020: By reassuring the kind of party insiders the media rely heavily on for framing their stories, Elizabeth Warren has largely avoided the kinds of aspersions—often anonymous—lobbed at Bernie Sanders.
In covering North Korea’s series of missile tests over the past few months, US media continue to portray Pyongyang’s actions as unwarranted provocations to obtain an advantage over the US in negotiations, while dismissing the North’s stated objectives for their missile tests.
The Washington Post’s recent pro-Uber reporting is not an anomaly, but part of a pattern at the paper, which no longer bothers to inform readers of its owner’s ties to the ride-hailing company.
Are we to believe a Maduro government official is the only person Reuters could find on Twitter who criticized Amazon’s anti-Venezuela propaganda?
Corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance.
Our elites are engaged in normal economic activity or else looking out for the betterment of humanity, while theirs are nefariously dominating politics.
Election Focus 2020: After CNN’s remarkably substantive and thoughtful town hall on the climate crisis, we wrote that the following debates now had a solid foundation from which to go deeper on climate for a larger audience. Unfortunately, ABC took it as an opportunity to do even less on the crisis.
On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, as the illegal US occupation of Afghanistan continues as the longest overseas war in American history, corporate media defended the “forever war” by concern-trolling over an “overly hasty” withdrawal.
Election Focus 2020: Corporate media uncritically transmitted the ad’s message as if it were merely a campaign strategy, instead of explaining what Biden, Sanders and Warren’s proposals actually are, and clarifying for voters whether Biden’s charges against his primary opponents are accurate.
Election Focus 2020: While the majority of corporate media do not outright deny the reality of the human-caused climate crisis, they downplay the threat that climate change poses to all of us.
