On this week’s show: The ways corporate media cover war, a Fox News pundit wants to see more civilian deaths in Syria, and PBS uses its ad dollars to punish a magazine.
All of that on this week’s show:
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On this week’s show: The ways corporate media cover war, a Fox News pundit wants to see more civilian deaths in Syria, and PBS uses its ad dollars to punish a magazine.
All of that on this week’s show:
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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CAPS FOR BAD EYES. PBS NEEDS FUNDING. SO DO YOU. I’D RATHER WATCH PBS THAN DONATE TO YOU. I GET BILL MOYERS WITH NO PROBLEM. ON MY TV OR ONLINE. I FIND PBS MORE TRUE THAN DEMOCRACY NOW, AND I’M A LEFTIST. LISTEN TO WBAI IF YOU’RE IN NEW YORK CITY. I BELIEVE YOU’RE IN SAN FRANCISCO. SURELY THERE MUST BE A PACIFICA STATION THERE. MY EX WAS IN THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION. CARTER WAS ONE OF THE BEST PRESIDENTS WE’VE HAD, BUT KENNEDYS FEEL ENTITLED AND HE CROSSED THE ISRAEL LOBBY, WHICH EVEN YOU WON’T TAKE ON. PROVE ME WRONG AND I MAY DONATE.
Beauty bravo! Er, Bravo beauty. Oh never mind. Exclamation point.
ALL CAPS for NEW TROLLS. Really, you can’t even bother spend 5 mintues to read up on the organization and your busy in here bad mouthing them?
I BELIEVE YOU’RE IN SAN FRANCISCO. SURELY THERE MUST BE A PACIFICA STATION THERE.
I Believe you need to readjust your troll eyes and take a look around. Hint: CONTACT US Link:
Contact FAIR
124 W. 30th Street, Suite 201
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And had done a little research, you would have noted that KPFA Berkeley is one of the Original Pacific dot Org stations.
So this just shows your another troll in disguise trying to pretend to be a ‘lefty’.
Bill Moyers is retiring again. Bummer. This piece by Janine Jackson is impressive and disturbing.