FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler used his June 19 column to respond to FAIR’s June 14 Action Alert regarding Post reporter Dana Milbank’s use of the term “wing nuts” to describe activists pressing the media to take the Downing Street memos more seriously. The relevant portion of Getler’s column is below, followed by FAIR’s response. […]
After over a month of scant media attention, mainstream U.S. outlets have begun to report more seriously about the “Downing Street Memo,” the minutes of a July 2002 meeting of British government officials that indicate the White House had already made up its mind to invade Iraq at that early date, and that “the intelligence […]
