FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The Washington Post defines (and laments) Corey Stewart’s embrace of white supremacist ideas, and the people who act on them, not as him being a white supremacist, but as “court[ing] white supremacists.”
How the media portray suicide directly affects how our culture handles it, and the stakes for irresponsible reporting are high. As the CDC states, the phenomenon of copycat suicides, or suicide cluster or contagion, can result from simplistic, sensational and glamorized coverage.
Tesla’s CEO has taken aim at the very press that has lauded his vision and business acumen in the past, and provided him the initial platform for converting readers and viewers into True Musk Believers.
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored.
The New York Times said the Fed “express[ed] confidence that raising borrowing costs now won’t hurt growth”–though that is exactly why it is raising rates.
Corporate media promoted the view that the United States should only negotiate with North Korea when “negotiation” means “forcing the DPRK under nuclear duress to do whatever America says.”
One might expect this concern over the United States’ authoritarian trajectory to be reflected in analysis of events as they unfolded in Singapore. But when corporate media’s focus turns outward, it seems the only radical, isolated and cultish dictator we need to worry about is Kim.
Since his most recent cartoon was published, Rob Rogers has opted to take personal days off, saying he has not heard from his editors since the spate of spikings, and the conflict has yet to be resolved.
Ralph Peters has been one of the most bloodthirsty hawks and overtly anti-Muslim trolls in US media. But now that he dislikes Trump for being mean to his friends in the US intelligence community, he can find a home again on CNN as a Respectable, Reasonable Republican.
The IDF video deceptively edited Razan al-Najjar’s comments to distort what she said—a fact not noted by the New York Times report until the third paragraph from the end.
Anthony Bourdain’s programs were in sharp contrast to corporate media’s typically cliched depiction of other countries, frequently shown as synonymous with their caricatured rulers, with canned images tirelessly repeated.
The average reader would come away thinking some dispassionate government body was issuing a warning about Social Security and Medicare based on verifiable and objective fact, as they would issue a warning about the Zika virus or an oncoming hurricane.
The New York Times story isn’t about “charges of antisemitism,” it’s about criticism of Israel. The headline ought to have said, “Democratic Candidate Questioned About Criticism of Israel.”
The Post-Gazette refused to publish six of staff cartoonist Rob Rogers’ cartoons in a row. Four were directly critical of President Donald Trump, and two alluded to racism.
The corporate media’s reaction to US assaults on democracy in Latin America, with rare exceptions, ranged from ignoring them to spreading misinformation in defense of them.
The one-state option is gaining traction among both Israeli Jews and Palestinians, but media coverage consistently suggests that the only possible scenarios for Palestine/Israel are either the two-state solution or the continued regime of Israeli occupation, colonization and apartheid.
The New York Times says it would defy “economic logic” for Italy to leave the euro–under which Italy has yet to recover from the crisis of 2008.
The Washington Post vaguely acknowledges Washington’s role in the bloody siege of Yemen, but insisting that the US should remain involved in the bombing for the sake of humanitarianism.
Several media outlets left out Barney Frank’s role as a bank board member while quoting him downplaying the magnitude of the Dodd/Frank rollback.
The media’s focus on Scott Pruitt’s dizzying array of personal scandals obscures his absolute contempt for his agency’s stated mission: environmental protection.
