FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“I know all of the cases that they cherry-picked their text fragments from. They stitched together excerpts.”
Fox created a fear-mongering narrative that distorts the reality of what is actually occurring at the southern border.
An ethnic voting bloc in Dearborn might “claim” not to be a Fifth Column—but for the Wall Street Journal, they are at best unwitting stooges.
Israel’s official list showed only one infant was killed in the October 7 attack. But most US news media ignored that evidence.
Reporting on the government institution charged with saving us from the Covid pandemic was restricted enough to leave real holes in what we knew. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—like many other organizations these days, public and private—prohibits its employees from speaking freely to reporters. At many entities, the rules mean staff members […]
David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city’s media (AP, 1/15/24). Sinclair is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company and one of the largest owners of television stations in […]
An exercise in culture jamming got two Northwestern students brought up on a charge that could have landed them in prison for a year.
The Washington Post sought to preempt DC voters by getting rid of Mayor Vincent Gray before he stood for reelection.
The New York Times’ post–New Hampshire analysis bodes very poorly for how coverage of the 2024 election will proceed.
The New York Times apparently decided that the huge pro-Gaza protest on January 13 didn’t warrant a story,
“Private equity” describes a specific for-profit corporate structure. Private equity firms form discreet “funds,” recruiting rich individuals and institutions to buy in. Funds typically focus on particular industrial sectors or types of investments. Investors’ money is locked up for a period of time, with significant penalties for early withdrawal. Private equity firms make their […]
German media giant Axel Springer is investigating one of its US media outlets for reporting truthful information about a wealthy couple.
Some people’s dystopian fears for the future are in fact the dystopian histories and contemporary realities of many other people.
Sunday show guests skewed strongly toward US politicians with strong financial influence from the military industry and pro-Israel advocates.
Rationalizing the horrors of a mass shooting by emphasizing the perpetrator’s mental state does little to address the larger issue.
US media falsely act as if Jewish opinion is unified in support of Israeli military attacks and in opposition to Palestinian rights.
As Julian Assange has nearly exhausted his appeals against a US extradition order, Australia has ramped up its advocacy on his behalf.
As casualties in Gaza mount, most TV news outlets have paid scant attention to the growing calls for a ceasefire.
For the New York Times, cluster munitions fall into two categories—clearly wrong or complexly controversial—depending on who uses them.
When a new example arose of RICO being used to punish the powerless rather than the powerful, concern was hard to find in corporate media.
