FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Election Focus 2020: Just as corporate media sought to distract their audience from the significant failures of their preferred Democratic candidate in 2016 with a collusion narrative that was baloney from the beginning, the New York Times wants you to be scared of anything and everything except Biden’s actual policy record.
Election Focus 2020: Being Wall Street’s favorite is not a good look, the financial industry being deeply unpopular with voters, particularly Democratic ones. So Buttigieg is being rebranded as a fundraiser who brings everyone together, rich and not so rich alike.
Election Focus 2020: After the first round of Democratic primary debates, the line from corporate media and their overwhelmingly centrist sources was clear: The Democrats are moving dangerously to the left, at their own peril.
Media outlets are creating a climate for a US military attack on Iran by hyping the idea that Iran is an imminent threat to peace. Headlines breathlessly suggest to readers that Iranians are going to kill Americans if Americans don’t kill Iranians first.
NBC News readers were given no indication of Ivan Duque’s unpopularity or the opposition movement against him.
Election Focus 2020: Power brokers in the for-profit health industry have worked to make the language of “government-run healthcare” the boilerplate description for a national health system in major media outlets.
Unlike Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, President Jovenel Moïse is Washington’s “man in Port-au-Prince.” He was hand-picked by Michael “Sweet Mickey” Martelly, the previous Washington-approved president, and had pledged to follow his “Haiti Is Open for Business” neoliberal policies. Is that why corporate media are not calling for the replacement of the Haitian government?
Election Focus 2020: Ember’s articles on Sanders often quote as neutral authorities individuals who are on the other side of a wide ideological divide, with longstanding antipathies to Sanders’ left socioeconomic perspective.
Repeated exposure to outrage, with no outlet, can give the impression that lots of folks are looking, but no one’s doing anything. That’s enervating and, more importantly, wrong.
The study is the clearest evidence of the devastating impact US policy is having on the people of Venezuela.
The New York Times report failed to inform readers on the remarkable injustice of cutting Social Security benefits, in view of where the funding gap came from.
Election Focus 2020: The Washington Post tries to spin the healthcare issues into a false competition between access and cost.
Reading corporate media’s inversion of reality, it’s hard to escape the impression that while Iran betrays its international agreements, the US just leaves them behind.
Chomsky discusses the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria.
Election Focus 2020: Despite new nods to diversity, there is little evidence so far to suggest that the debates will be any less circumscribed and shallow than those in the past.
The collective bargaining agreement between Vox Media and the Writers Guild of America East puts an end to one of the more contentious unionization battles that have gone on in US digital media. Vox management took longer to voluntarily recognize the union than other outlets, and workers recently staged a walk-out to protest Vox’s […]
Reuters has continued to portray the severe impact of US sanctions as an allegation that only Maduro and other Venezuelan officials have made.
Running out of people might seem a strange concern for a country that is ten times as densely populated as the United States.
“Developer” is an incredibly positive term that has burrowed so deeply into our language that we rarely think to question it.
The New York Times provided yet another example of a major news outlet covering the catastrophic effects of the ongoing climate crisis without ever mentioning that crisis.
