Remembering Victims of Terror–and Forgetting Some Others
CBS’s “senior security consultant” doesn’t appear to remember a massacre less than four years ago that killed 77 people, mostly teenagers.
Action Alert: NYT Skips First Big Test of New Torture Policy
FAIR’s new Action Alert (8/18/14) calls out the New York Times for not covering a major Amnesty International report on US torture—shortly after the paper announced a new policy of calling torture by its right name. If you send a message to the Times, please leave a copy in the comments thread to this post. […]
Amnesty International’s Annual Bad News
In September 1987, when Amnesty International issued its annual (1986) report on human rights abuses in 129 nations, it received scant and oversimplified coverage reflecting the anti-Sovietism of the day. Amnesty’s world-spanning report was typically cast in a superpower framework, as US journalists focused on human rights violations in the USSR or in countries out […]
