FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
YouTube’s decision seems to solidify that the video platform will continue to be a welcoming home for channels that promote hate speech and harassment, and serve as a conduit for laundering far-right ideology—as long as those channels continue to make YouTube money.
Editorial standards and quality of reporting on a country are inversely proportional to its relationship with the US: Friendly countries are reported on favorably, whereas anything goes with enemy states like Venezuela, Iran or North Korea.
The conversation around When They See Us would be incomplete without a serious reckoning with corporate media’s role in fanning the flames of racist hysteria and misinformation.
A Wall Street Journal report (5/25/19) by Warren Strobel whitewashed CIA Director Gina Haspel’s career and put a positive spin on the CIA’s insulation from public accountability with its turn towards its greatest opacity “in decades.” While one might expect CIA officials to support greater secrecy around the organization, it’s odd that ostensibly independent […]
US leaders have been threatening Iran for years, but US corporate media persistently and wrongly paint US escalations against Iran as defensive countermeasures.
Through their efforts to discredit Assange and WikiLeaks, corporate media have snugly aligned themselves with the contemporary brokers of US imperial power against a journalistic movement that, over the last decade, has presented them with their most significant challenge.
When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked “cultural Marxism” as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer—the fringe. But since the election of Donald Trump, Brexit and the rise and re-election of other far-right governments around the globe, “cultural Marxism” has […]
As many as 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to the scientists and researchers behind a new UN report. The assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is the most comprehensive […]
The New York Times’ claims of a relationship between Caracas and Hezbollah are entirely unoriginal, having been repeated by corporate journalists and national security pundits without evidence for years.
By parroting the propaganda of an emergent class of “space capitalists,” the Washington Post extols the virtues of the private sector, its repackaged press releases masquerading as inspirational musings on American scientific progress.
New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait calls it an “absurdly lax standard” to count pundits as being pro–regime change if they endorse regime change.
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre.
If we can still call things “surreal,” that would describe watching corporate media do the same things they did in the run-up to the Iraq War, things they later disavowed–like the credulous repetition of administration claims about the supposed threat.
Another day, another opportunity for our perpetually “behind” and “vulnerable” military/industrial/media complex to assert the need for yet another military upgrade–this time in outer space!
Many in the US press dutifully echoed Saudi Arabia’s claim that it executed 37 people for “terrorism.” A cursory Google search would have shown that this assertion was completely false.
Please tell the Washington Post to acknowledge the role of CIA subterfuge in fueling the anti-vaccination sentiment that has led to a resurgence of polio in Pakistan.
That corporate media manage to portray Juan Guaidó and his regime-change cohort as a “pro-democracy movement” is both a tragedy and a farce.
After opening fire at worshipers celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Poway Synagogue near San Diego, California, 19-year-old John T. Earnest was arrested. Earnest killed one woman and injured three other worshippers before his semi-automatic weapon jammed and he fled the scene, calling 911 himself to report the shooting. The shooter published […]
It’s very possible that Bernie Sanders said something “startling” in the 51 episodes of Bernie Speaks–but if he did, Politico didn’t find it. Instead, the publication showed us its own failure to dislodge from the corporate media’s anti-Communist, neo-Cold War worldview.
Election Focus 2020: When corporate outlets talk about an anti-interventionist position, they primarily use it to negatively characterize the candidates who espouse it.
