This week on the show: Some good–and not so good–media reactions to the police killing of Michael Brown. Plus pundits wonder what took Obama so long to bomb Iraq, and two papers try to raise doubts about the death toll in Gaza.
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This week on the show: Some good–and not so good–media reactions to the police killing of Michael Brown. Plus pundits wonder what took Obama so long to bomb Iraq, and two papers try to raise doubts about the death toll in Gaza.
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Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s (Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC‘s Nightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW’s Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research.

FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
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While I’m grateful to ‘fair TV’, it is apparent our country is by and large, profoundly corrupt and perhaps hopelessly ignorant. I’m beginning to wonder if we have the fortitude to fight back with the effort required to reclaim it. I hope so.
I find nothing fair in your reporting. Your commentary is riddled with your own personal opinions. That is not journalism.
Why are you being smug when you report on the failed reporting? I see this smug attitude all over corporate media. Why can’t you let a content analysis speak for itself? This is not the FAIR I remember. You do not need to take the Rachel Maddow approach. Rise above it. You have the evidence on your side. Don’t try to prop it up with attitude and opinion. Just deliver the information so we can see the problems without your commentary.
…and what’s wrong with casting doubts on information (death toll) received initially from the terror group Hamas (with the symbolic approval of the UN)?
Please be ‘Fair’ and don’t turn into another political pamphlet..