FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
It’s easy enough to find reporting in major US news outlets describing the hardships many Americans are facing. But lamenting inequality is one thing, and acknowledging—or, God forbid, highlighting—efforts to rectify it are very much another for corporate media.
It may be unlikely that the United States will summon the political will to implement a realistic plan for not just delaying, but stopping Covid-19. But it’s crucial for media reporting on options in the fight against the outbreak to distinguish.
The difference between the US and Vietnamese governments is not how much they surveil their citizens—but whether they use the information they collect to protect their citizens’ health.
It may be unlikely that the United States will summon the political will to implement a realistic plan for not just delaying, but stopping Covid-19. But it’s crucial for media reporting on options in the fight against the outbreak to distinguish.
As the Covid-19 pandemic results in increased demand for Cuban doctors around the world, corporate media appear to have shifted from vilifying them to casting them as victims of exploitation.
It’s critically important that media provide accurate reporting on what our governments are choosing to do, and what price we are likely to pay for their choices. Instead, Newsweek is giving us the latest fashion reports on the emperor’s new clothes.
During an epochal catastrophe such as this one, where bodies are piling up outside morgues and tens of millions have lost their jobs, corporate media’s neoliberal understanding of what is uplifting stretches credulity to the breaking point.
Many outlets are failing to reach out to unions representing the workers who will have to incur risks by entering physical school spaces if reopening happens too hastily.
“I would like to see them expose this hoax that somehow, promoting privatization benefits the neediest children, when, in fact, privatization hurts the neediest children.”
A new study put another dent in the Swedish government’s claims that it’s been able to get Covid-19 under control without stay-at-home orders.
On the networks’ Sunday morning political talk shows, which play an important role in setting agendas for national political debate, the voices asked to participate were overwhelmingly the usual narrow cast of Beltway actors, with independent public health experts playing a marginal role, and public interest voices almost entirely sidelined.
We talk with Diane Ravitch about the latest scheme for rich folks to decide what’s best for schools their children don’t attend.
Election Focus 2020: “The Wisconsin opinion seemed to signal that Republicans can do whatever they want to make voting more difficult, even in a pandemic, and the Supreme Court’s going to say, ‘That’s OK.’”
The New York Times’ graphics aren’t helping to hold state governments responsible; they’re actually obscuring which officials have implemented an effective anti-coronavirus strategy.
Right-wing agitators in corporate media used New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s poorly worded tweet to advance the theory that, alongside the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter and constant antisemitic hate from the Trumpian right, a liberal like de Blasio was similarly an enemy of the Jews.
Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check.
In the US, the government may surveill you, but at least it doesn’t protect your health.
Ignored by nearly all US news organizations, at least initially, was an explanation that the official unemployment rate was actually incorrect.
“Emancipation never really came to agriculture, in the sense that we still don’t pay the full value of the labor that’s required to make the entire system work.”
When reporters and editorial contributors to the New York Times reiterate the notion that government spending is anathema, or that we need to be worrying about debt even as we fight the coronavirus, we are setting ourselves up for a rerun of the response to the global financial crisis,
