Ralph Peters’ break with Trump and Fox News was covered in the New York Times (6/7/18)… As FAIR has noted before (7/3/16, 12/30/17), centrist and liberal media have a disturbing…
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NYT Carries IDF Attack on Murdered Medic–Reveals It’s a Smear in 20th Paragraph
Journalism how-not-to: New York Times (6/7/18) puts the attack in the headline, reveals it’s a smear in paragraph 20. A reporter at the most influential paper in English-language media appears…
Media Treat Trump Administration’s Partisan Fear-Mongering as Objective ‘Government’ Report
AP (6/5/18) On Tuesday, dozens of media outlets broke what at first seemed to be a major story about “the government” announcing that Social Security and Medicare will be broke…
With Literal Nazis Running for Office, NYT Suggests Candidate’s Israel Criticism Is Antisemitic
The New York Times (5/29/18) crafts its headline around a baseless charge from political enemies. Eight overt white nationalists are running for office in 2018—a new record, according to the…
WaPo Editors: We Have to Help Destroy Yemen to Save It
Washington Post (3/24/18) says that the Saudi war on Yemen “has helped create the world’s most dire humanitarian crisis”–but argues for continued participation in that war. Over the past year,…
Promoters of Saudi Prince as Feminist Reformer Are Silent on His Crackdown on Women
“It appears the only ‘crime’ these activists committed was wanting women to drive before Mohammed bin Salman did” (Independent, 5/22/18). During his US PR tour in March, Saudi prince and…
Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government Influence
Medium (5/17/18) Facebook announced Thursday it was partnering with DC think tank the Atlantic Council to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference.” The details of the plan are vague, but…
NYT Edit Board Are Last Humans on Earth Who Believe US Neutral in Israel/Palestine Conflict
The fact that the United States favors Israel in its decades-long “conflict” with the Palestinians is not a subjective or abstract question; it’s a well-established empirical fact. The US gives…
