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Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
If the Paramount/WBD deal moves forward, Larry and David Ellison would gain control of a vast portfolio spanning legacy media and Big Tech.
NYT’s Investigation of How Trump’s War on Iran Started Leaves Out the Paper’s Own Silence
A full accounting of how the disastrous Iran War came about must grapple with the US military/industrial complex’s megaphone: the compliant US corporate media.
Sarah Anderson on Poverty Wages, Lia Holland on Wayback Machine
Why do news media label companies “successful” when that success stems from cheating and grifting and, crucially, shafting their workers?
Israel Destroys a Synagogue; US Media Yawn
Underplaying the story obscures not only Israel’s aggression, but the actual nature of Iranian society, portrayed as obsessed with wiping Jews off the map.
‘The World Is Only Going to Get Darker if People Get Away With This’: CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on holding Trump accountable
“War of aggression, UN charter, Nuremberg precedent: These are not foreign things being imposed on the US. These are part of our domestic legal system.”
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FAIR Studies
Trans Youth Targeted by Texas Are Marginalized by Corporate Media
Bigotry is experiencing an unprecedented mainstreaming—through the calculations of conservative media, and the indifference of centrist media.
Blaming Workers, Hiding Profits in Primetime Inflation Coverage
Segments on inflation put far more emphasis on the contributions of labor shortages than to the role of corporate profit-taking.
Media Need to Treat Every Day as Earth Day if We Want a Livable Planet
On Earth Day, no doubt most major media will pay lip service to the extreme dangers of climate change. But what happens the next day?
How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
TV coverage of Ukraine has both a familiar reliance on US officials to frame events and a newfound ability to cover the impact on civilians.
Biden’s Multi-Billion Afghan Theft Gets Scant Mention on TV News
Two months ago (FAIR.org, 12/21/21), I noted the striking contrast between vocal media outrage—ostensibly grounded in concern for Afghan people—over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, and the relative silence over the growing humanitarian crisis in that country, which threatens millions with life-threatening levels of famine. While influenced by drought and […]
