FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“People want to talk so much about the King holiday as a time for community service, but it’s really a time for community action.”
The elite press corps that now pretend they honor Martin Luther King show that they never understood him—or those who share his vision today.
“There are people around him who want favors, want money, and they’re getting it…. He knows how to take bribes, basically.”
When insurance stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted that private looting of the healthcare system might end.
News media need to locate the climate fight in the boardrooms of greedy people perversely trying to wring every last dime from our shared future.
“Consumers don’t actually have very much choice in many of these circumstances. So it’s not like they’re able to choose a lower fare from a competitor, often.”
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
Summer School sidelines critical perspectives to teach its audience that privatization, austerity and deregulation are pivotal to freedom and prosperity.
“What they’re paying out in climate-attributable losses is almost the same as what they’re taking in from the fossil fuel companies in premiums.”
You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.
Corporate outlets are already seeding the ground for the Trump administration to blame external factors for poor labor market performance.
“A number of senators have called this the biggest corruption in presidential history.”
Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.
We found no Washington Post articles since the start of the year with headlines directly addressing the negative economic impact of Trump’s proposed mass deportation policy.
“Trump is saying he doesn’t care about whatever agreements we have, including the ones he signed.”
The narrow focus on whether a Big Mac costs 15 cents more, and if it does, shouldn’t you yell at the people behind the counter, is a distortion, and a tired one,
While the headlines were nearly identical, the ideological differences between the Times and the Journal mean the papers arrived at very different conclusions for the future of economics.
On perhaps no other issue has corporate media’s failure to inform been more consequential than on inflation.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews used his post-election appearance on Morning Joe to demonstrate just how unhelpful political commentary can be.
The Washington Post’s “Climate Lab” seems to be working hard to cast doubt on whether climate change is really causing weather disasters to be more expensive.
