FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The story was hot in more ways than one: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed to deregulate much of so-called “low-level” radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear plants, to deem it “Below Regulatory Concern” and allow it to be treated, without monitoring, like plain old garbage. This proposal was on the NRC’s agenda from 1985 […]
One of the most horrifying stories of the Cold War received new attention last May, when Kathy Kadane of the Washington-based States News Service reported that U.S. government officials had abetted the massacre of thousands of Indonesians in 1965–66. In the massacre, directed by the Indonesian military in an effort to eliminate the Indonesian Communist […]
The New York Times no longer prints the word “gay” only in quotation marks, but it still has a long way to go to represent gay and lesbian reality. On the issue of gay-bashing, Times coverage in recent months has shown a pattern of neglect and distortion. “A Gay Protest Against Attacks Becomes Violent” was […]
Right: Pat Buchanan, Fred Barnes, John McLaughlin, David Gergen, Robert Novak, William F. Buckley, George Will. Center: Sam Donaldson, Mark Shields, Michael Kinsley, Morton Kondracke, Al Hunt, Jack Germond, Hodding Carter. The power to define the political spectrum is an awesome one — determining who gets to speak and who gets censored, which positions gain […]
