FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“We need to do a better job of reaching out to those folks, and making sure that our vision also is a vision for them. And that is different from capitulating to the worst tendency of this moment. Under no circumstance should we normalize, capitulate, negotiate with, compromise with any vision that removes humanity from anybody.”
In the wake of a disastrous Election Day, does the Democratic Party need to present economic policies that have more to offer the majority of voters? Don’t bother, argues New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
Social justice advocates are getting together to share strategies for protecting vulnerable communities and resisting the predations on our civil rights.
Over the past two weeks, pundits from all ends of the spectrum have been scrambling to explain Clinton’s unexpected loss, with reasons spanning from the plausible to the highly dubious; Lately, a new, entirely bogus culprit has emerged from center and center-left circles: “identity politics” and its close cousin, “political correctness.”
Thousands of protesters rejected the Trump administration’s agenda of forced deportations, Muslim bans and attacks on women’s reproductive rights. On cue, several center and center-left pundits jumped in to call into question and concern-troll this exercise of dissent.
What now for electoral reform and congressional diversity, for the environment, for Muslim-Americans and others made vulnerable by the so-called War on Terror in its domestic and international fronts?
The idea that Sanders had not been “properly examined” was pure dogma, asserted by pundits with hardly any critical thought. It was true because Important People in Important Media Outlets simply said it was.
What now for electoral reform and congressional diversity? For the environment? For Muslim-Americans and others made vulnerable by the so-called “War on Terror” in its domestic and international fronts?
While many factors were beyond the control of Clinton and the Democrats, one factor that was under their control was the decision to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
For those who have bemoaned the mediocrity of corporate media, their embarrassment might appear as a well-deserved comeuppance, but it also brings the uncomfortable upending of decades of common wisdom about media and elections.
Hillary Clinton has been the subject of many scandals–some legitimate, some with a mix of fact and fantasy. But last week a “scandal” emerged that was created by media entirely out of whole cloth.
It’s unsurprising that Richard Cohen–notorious for his racialized worldview–evokes Latin America as a symbol of disregard for civil liberties. It’s also not surprising that as his example of bad Latin American–style oppression, he picks Nicaragua.
A major-party presidential candidate on the verge of the election repeatedly tells a far-fetched and easily checkable lie about the current president, suggesting he was “unhinged” and “a disgrace.” In the 2016 presidential campaign, where political journalists have obsessively covered every utterance of Trump, this surely qualifies as important news the electorate should know about, right?
A FAIR analysis of front-page election coverage in three major dailies revealed a strong emphasis on horserace politics at the expense of issue coverage. The study found a lopsided focus on Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, and an overwhelming focus on the presidential race at the expense of all other electoral contests.
But media don’t just cover terrorism, they engage in meta-terrorism—the terror that comes from the gratuitous or excessive coverage of stories that don’t actually involve terrorism, but rather potential or staged terrorism, or ISIS propaganda repackaged as news.
How do you blame Trump on the age group least likely to vote for Trump?
Hillary Clinton has stepped up her promotion of the idea that a no-fly zone in Syria could “save lives” and “hasten the end of the conflict” that has devastated that country since 2011. It has now been revealed, of course, that Clinton hasn’t always expressed the same optimism about the no-fly zone in private.
“When there’s not enough demand in the economy, the government absolutely has the responsibility to run large deficits, because it has to make up for the shortfall in demand elsewhere.”
Robert Samuelson argues you should vote for a GOP Congress to show that Clinton does not have “a compelling agenda,” and vote for Clinton to show that the Republicans’ control of Congress does “not signal the popularity of their political philosophy, whatever it is.”
“Conservatives…realized that manipulating the country’s voting laws could give them a partisan advantage, and that talking about voter fraud, whether or not the fraud actually existed, was the way to build support for those restrictions.”
