FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The idea that Sanders had not been “properly examined” was pure dogma, asserted by pundits with hardly any critical thought. It was a major contributing factor to the Democrats not nominating someone who, by available measures, was a stronger candidate than Clinton.
How should the media be covering these races, and how should public opinion be measured and absorbed? What kind of debates between candidates would actually matter? These are the valuable questions that media organizations should be asking themselves.
President Trump, like any president henceforth, will start off his administration with all the tools he needs to establish an authoritarian regime. And any impulse to do so will no doubt be facilitated by an elite press corps.
The Presidency–and Trump– Dominated Front Pages… Overlooking a ‘Screaming Faksehood’… ‘Smearing’ Thomas by Investigating ‘Terrible Things’… NYT: US Not ‘Involved’ in a War Where It Helped Kill 4,000 Civilians… ‘A Disaster For Democracy’
