March 23, 2016

FAIR’s Critique of Washington Post Makes Washington Post

Bernie Sanders (Ricky Carioti/Washington Post)

Bernie Sanders (Ricky Carioti/Washington Post)

The photo that accompanied a rare pro-Sanders op-ed (3/23/16) in the Washington Post. (Ricky Carioti/Washington Post)

A Washington Post op-ed (3/23/16) by John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, cites FAIR’s critique of the Post‘s anti-Bernie Sanders bias:

What is most remarkable about the Sanders phenomenon is that despite unrelenting hostility from the media gatekeepers of the status quo — for example, Adam Johnson at FAIR.org documented that the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories about Bernie Sanders within 16 hours on March 8 — he has continued to draw record crowds. He has also obtained more votes from those under age 30 than Clinton and Trump combined, pointing to a weakening of the power of the corporate media over political information in US society and the growing influence of social media, at least amongst youth.

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FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. 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.

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Daniel Murphy
April 1, 2016 at 6:58 pm
Fair has proved that mainstream media news is only a ruse to deflect us away from facts that really matter.

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