FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Election Focus 2020: Declaring that great centrist hope Pete Buttigieg has won something is something that corporate media are clearly eager to do—even in an exceedingly close race in which, rather famously, not all the votes have been counted yet.
Election Focus 2020: The Snowflake Garden Brunch opens a window onto the widespread nature of media/politician corruption.
So the paper recycled its poll to tell essentially the same story, about Democrats being too far left for the battleground states, in a different and more roundabout way, presenting it as if it were new.
Election Focus 2020: The real Sanders attack machine isn’t the mythical machine run by Sanders to take down his opponents; it’s run by the establishment Democrats and their media counterparts to take down Sanders.
Election Focus 2020: The New York Times has a distinctly poor record of picking winning candidates, often making tragically comical predictions and assertions in its endorsements.
Election Focus 2020: While media express concern about the use of antisemitic tropes by the left, they seem oblivious that their own discussions of the Sanders campaign might evoke them.
Election Focus 2020: The healthcare industry’s efforts to block all meaningful change in our medical system would not be nearly so successful were corporate media not working in tandem to spread these same lobbyist talking points.
Election Focus 2020: If they were an absurd stretch in 2016, efforts to make a Sanders/Trump equivalence today are even more desperate and disingenuous.
Election Focus 2020: Headlines from 23 different media outlets covering Sanders’ critique of Biden’s Social Security record obscured crucial facts by making no mention of surely pertinent information.
Election Focus 2020: Despite Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s prominent role in leading the US into the disastrous Iraq War, and his recent stream of lies and equivocations about why he supported it and when he began to reverse his position, many pundits continue to uncritically paint Biden as “mature” or a “steady hand” on foreign policy.
Election Focus 2020: The whole point of the primaries is to let voters get to know the candidates and decide for themselves who is electable—the last thing people need is journalists narrowing the field for them.
Election Focus 2020: Across the spectrum, corporate media all came to the same conclusion regarding the election: Corbyn’s loss spells the end for the US left and a “crushing defeat” of the discredited policies of socialism.
Election Focus 2020: Debates are one of the few opportunities most voters outside of the early voting states have to hear directly from the candidates without being filtered by journalist spin. At least–they used to be.
Election Focus 2020: Yamiche Alcindor has repeatedly used her articles, tweets and media appearances to portray Sanders in an unflattering light.
Election Focus 2020: “Sanders wants fundamental change in the structure of power in this country. And the corporate media outlets don’t. The structure of power in this country is working quite well for them.”
Election Focus 2020: The Washington Post rounds up a posse of centrist sources to accuse progressive candidates of imposing “purity tests,” and argue that a leftist turn by Democrats will hurt the party.
Election Focus 2020: Corporate media have a practice of outsizing the attractiveness and viability of centrist candidates, including shielding them from critical examination.
Election Focus 2020: FAIR took a look at news coverage and editorials about the wealth tax from Bezos’ Washington Post, and Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, to see if these oligarch-owned newspapers would defend their billionaire owners’ material class interests.
Election Focus 2020: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential candidates are rejecting the Obama administration’s embrace of charter schools, and media observers aren’t taking kindly to it.
Election Focus 2020: Voters are looking for substantive reporting on candidates’ public records. But as we record the show, the major election story seems to be about Joe Biden’s leg hair.
