Famous War Correspondent Explains Why He’s Still Wrong on Iraq
Perhaps one of the millions of people who anticipated that the Iraq War would be costly and deadly would have been “the best person to ask” about the current crisis in Iraq.
Bradley Manning’s Name Is Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning’s announcement that she identifies as female and would prefer to be referred to that way seemed to befuddle many in the media, with some outlets apparently unclear about how to identify her.
NYT Finds Fox News Whistleblower!
Brian Stelter reports in the New York Times that Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity are renewing their contracts…meaning that we’ll be enjoying–and paying for–their talents through the 2016 election season. Not many people around Fox wanted to speak on the record about the new deals, but Stelter granted anonymity to one Fox insider who was […]
More on CNN’s Tea Party
The New York Times reported today (9/13/11) on the controversy, citing FAIR: But the CNN debate on Monday was the first event hosted jointly by a major news organization and a Tea Party group. And their partnership left some questioning whether the network had gone too far in reaching for centrist credibility. “Is there really […]
What George Seldes Would Say About George Shultz Documentary
New York Times blogger Brian Stelter (7/20/10) reports on the controversy over the PBS documentary on George Shultz that was funded by Shultz’s friends and associates. Stelter quotes the producer of the show’s response to the criticism, along with FAIR’s rejoinder: The series’ producer, David deVries, said in a statement to Mr. Getler that “throughout […]
Owners ‘Call the Tune’ in Reported MSNBC-Fox Truce
Former TV Newser Brian Stelter’s article (New York Times, 8/7/09) about MSNBC and Fox News having “resumed their long-running feud this week after the New York Times reported that their parent companies, General Electric and the News Corporation, had struck a deal to stop each other’s televised personal attacks” states that “the deal extends beyond […]
NYT, ABC and Waterboarding: An Update
We noted recently that a New York Times story about the waterboarding of two Al-Qaeda detainees included a bit of media criticism. The Times mentioned that in 2007, ABC featured an interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who claimed that “Abu Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything […]
