FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
News outlets have performed torturous linguistic contortions to avoid stating the simple fact that Israel is shooting hundreds of demonstrators with live ammunition, killing 30 and injuring close to 2,000. An Associated Press headline (4/6/18) said, “Palestinian Protesters Burn Tires, Sending Smoke Billowing at Gaza/Israel Border; Israeli Troops Fire Back Sporadically.” That’s a logical impossibility: […]
Main Source on Russian Bots ‘Not Convinced on Bot Thing’ Those “Russian bots”—automatic Twitter accounts supposedly controlled by the Kremlin—sure have been busy, according to US news media accounts: After the Parkland Shooting, Pro-Russian Bots Are Pushing False-Flag Allegations Again (Washington Post, 2/16/18) Russian Bots Were Sowing Discord During Hunt for Austin Bomber, Group Says […]
Will interest payments take up the entire federal budget? A Wall Street Journal column by Greg Ip (3/28/18) gave us another rendition of this old scare story. The argument is that the interest paid on US government debt will soon impose an enormous burden on the federal government, choking off spending on important government programs. […]
