FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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.
Election Focus 2020: CNN’s climate crisis town hall showed that, when it’s not setting up mock combat among candidates, the network can actually provide thoughtful and substantive discussion about critical policy issues.
The New York Times chose to focus more on David Koch’s love for the ballet than on his pollution and profiteering.
As the world’s attention focused on the fire crisis last week, media companies employed several strategies to deflect attention from its root causes.
The New York Times might have pointed out that the accusation that Palestinians murdering Jewish Israelis is a “more common scourge” is an absolute inversion of reality.
Katharine Gun’s revelations showed before the invasion that people on the inside, whose livelihood depends on following the party line, were willing to risk jail time to expose the lies and threats.
Election Focus 2020: The false impression that Trump was a moderate Republican on economic issues left voters free to be swayed by his appeal to a white racial identity.
The fact that trade is a story of winners and losers within countries rather than between countries is especially important now that our trade conflicts are entering a new phase, especially with China.
At the heart of the Mauna Kea action is a challenge not only to a telescope, but to capital and the pursuit of unmitigated industrial growth at any cost. It’s no wonder, then, that when corporate-owned media are tasked with examining this movement, their limitations rear their heads.
This sort of consolidation means fewer resources for reporting, usually fewer reporters, and less informed attention to local affairs.
Evidence of DC Councilmember Jack Evans’ corruption has abounded for many years–just not in the pages of the influential Washington Post, which has long protected the powerful local politician.
It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change.
Election Focus 2020: Corporate media hide their pro-business positions behind a veneer of pragmatism, presenting their ideas as common sense.
Election Focus 2020: Corporate media are granting anonymity to sources in the Democratic establishment looking to run opposition talking points against progressive lawmakers and organizations.
Downplaying and ignoring organized resistance supports Bolsonaro’s sub-fascist project for Brazil, and the US corporations that benefit from it.
Election Focus 2020: FAIR has been following the issue of the Washington Post’s bias against Bernie Sanders for quite some time, so we’re happy to offer the evidence CNN and the Post protest is lacking.
At FAIR, we’ve been following Jonathan Weisman’s career for quite some time, and “lapses of judgment” seem to be par for the course for him.
Election Focus 2020: Coming out of the second round of Democratic debates, a curious storyline crystallized in the media: The candidates are attacking Obama, and that’s a sure-fire way to hand the election to Trump.
The New York Times’ “anti-war” arguments are woefully lacking—vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and hiding US aggression towards Iran.
