FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The media watchdog group FAIR says that the ABC News special Is America #One? contained many inaccuracies. We stand by our report: –FAIR claims that numerous countries (the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark,Finland, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S.itself) run government budget surpluses comparable to Hong Kong’s. In fact, Hong Kong is unique […]
Since FAIR released its October 22 action alert, “U.S. Media Overlook exposé on Chinese Embassy Bombing,” many readers have written to mainstream media outlets, asking them why they have devoted so little attention to the Chinese embassy story. A number of readers have received replies from Andrew Rosenthal, foreign editor of the New York Times, […]
Michael Wines’ Letter to “FAIR Correspondents” Here is the full text of Michael Wines’ response to letters generated by FAIR’s June 17, 1999 action alert, “The New York Times‘ Yawning Gap: Between Glowing Portrait of Western Idealism and Reality of U.S. Policy.” Dear FAIR correspondents, Because I cannot reply to all correspondence, especially that which […]
FAIR’s October 16 Action Alert criticized mainstream media silence following the October 8th release of a second CIA report detailing the agency’s knowledge of Contra drug trafficking. Activists were encouraged to write directly to journalists at the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to inquire about each paper’s treatment of the new […]
