FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Data journalism website 538 conceals key data in arguing that Sanders fares poorly with “true independents;” In nine Democratic presidential debates, moderators didn’t ask a single question concerning poverty; NYT op-ed claims Bill Clinton revitalized the Democratic Party despite losing the House on his watch; An analysis of abortion discussions on cable news finds that most guests are male and anti-choice.
At FAIR, we always say the primary measure of media in an election is not how fair they are to this or that candidate, but how fair they are to the people—all of the people who are affected by the outcome of this particular process, such as it is, and need to see how it functions in relation to them and their needs and concerns.
Hillary Clinton has a long, objectively verifiable track record of acting recklessly on matters of foreign policy that seems to have slipped into a memory hole as the prospect of a Trump presidency looms overhead. While one would expect this rewriting of history to come from Clinton surrogates, it’s increasingly bizarre coming from nominally independent media pundits.
A Nexis search turns up no US newspaper that reported on the recall of the Venezuelan or Salvadoran ambassadors to Brazil in response to the efforts to oust twice-elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
