FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
If the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), negotiated last summer by the United States, Mexico and Canada, is ratified by Congress this year, credit should go to the leading voices of the US press—which displayed unyielding devotion to the conservative gospel of free trade.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will disproportionately affect women, yet the voices of women workers have barely been heard in the mainstream media’s discussion of the pact. NAFTA’s most likely impact, according to the World Bank, will be on multinational corporations operating south of the U.S.-Mexico border and on those who work for […]
Not long ago, I had the occasion to discuss health care with reporters and editors of the Washington Post. Entering the Post‘s conference room, I encountered as many as 20 writers on health-related issues from the Post‘s national staff, the business pages and the weekly “Health” section. As I looked around the room, recognizing faces […]
An op-ed in the Nov. 11, 1992 New York Post worried that 25 percent of African-American New Yorkers rely on black-owned WLIB and “militant black weeklies” for their news—not on “mainstream media whose perspective could counter extremist views.” While FAIR encourages news consumers to get the widest selection of sources possible, we’re also worried about […]
Harvard professor Carol Gilligan, studying the psychological development of teenage girls in 1988, found that they experience a major drop in self-esteem as they reach adolescence. Only 29 percent of teenage girls said that they “felt happy the way I am,” as opposed to 60 percent of nine-year-old girls. Gilligan suggests that this adolescent crisis […]
