FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Election Focus 2020: a piece by two of NPR’s leading political reporters, which aired just before the Iowa caucuses, provides a view of how journalists speak with authority on issues they seem to know very little about.
In Wired’s imagination, military weapons resemble otherworldly creations, high-tech spectacles, the stuff of science fiction.
NBC News readers were given no indication of Ivan Duque’s unpopularity or the opposition movement against him.
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.
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 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!
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.
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: Corporate media appear to be almost univocally against Medicare for All, with the flow of doom-mongering stories increasing to a roaring flood as the notion gains more traction among the public.
If you’re thinking that Facebook–90 percent of whose customers are not in the United States–should treat Russian-backed outlets differently than US-backed outlets because the US supports peace and democracy, or doesn’t use social media to try to manipulate other nations…. Well, this is why it’s important to get your information from a variety of sources.
Many in the media have been quick to denounce the Trump administration’s attempts to define away transgender people—without, however, assessing the ways that media coverage of trans issues have set the stage for this formalized discrimination.
How did a tax cut that mainly benefits a small group of top earners become broadly popular? One reason is the nonstop deluge of stories over the past two months, cheerleading alleged “tax cut bonuses” from large corporations.
The eagerness of US media to disproportionately cover and empathize with detained protesters in Russia, while either ignoring or toeing the government’s line when it comes to mass arrests stateside, speaks to the nationalistic blinders at work.
Over 45 million Americans live in poverty—but you wouldn’t think potential leaders of the country are expected to know or care anything about this, listening to the questions asked by the elite journalists who moderated the Democratic debates this primary season. A FAIR analysis of all nine democratic debates over the past seven months shows that not one question was asked about poverty.
As Donald Trump caught up with Hillary Clinton in the polls over the past two weeks, the Bernie Sanders campaign has reiterated its last-ditch argument to win over superdelegates and secure the nomination: The Vermont senator is walloping Trump in the polls by over ten points, in contrast to Clinton’s dead heat. To counter this increasingly messy fact, several Clinton boosters in the media have dusted off an old talking point: that Sanders hasn’t been properly “vetted”—thoroughly examined for political faults—rendering the polls meaningless.
The New York Times sneered at a growing movement against Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, who is now being criticized for recommending—and getting—a no-jail sentence for the police officer who killed Akai Gurley in 2014.
A New York Times op-ed claims that “no one doubted” that Bill Clinton “had given new life” to the Democratic Party. Actually, plenty of people have doubted this. But since corporate media keep pushing the fantasy of Bill Clinton as savior of the Democratic Party, it’s worth going over the reality once again.
This is Bad Journalism 101: You come up with a thesis, like “Bernie Sanders is going to hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances of beating Donald Trump.” You take your thesis to your source, and ask them to agree with it; like any sensible spokesperson, they decline to comment on it. You take their no-comment as an endorsement of your thesis—and that becomes the lead headline in the nation’s most influential newspaper.
