The Plot to Kill ‘JFK’
FAIR noticed that the news outlets and journalists that attacked the film JFK the most vociferously were the ones with the longest records of error and obstruction in defense of the flawed Warren Commission inquiry.
Survey Says: Newspapers Boost Nukes
One of the claims of the nuclear industry is that it is subject to constant criticism from the media. But a five-month sample of clippings gathered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicates that the majority of editorials, columns and news stories on nuclear power in U.S. newspapers are supportive of nuclear power. Extra! conducted a […]
Buchanan and Duke
Patrick Buchanan and David Duke today find themselves in the same place—using nearly identical issues and rhetoric to challenge George Bush from the right. But they took different paths to get to this point: Duke rose to prominence through the use of KKK robes; Buchanan rode a more conventional vehicle: television. Although Duke recently received […]
Off-Base in the Philippines
In covering the vote by the Philippines senate to close the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay, major U.S. newspapers contrasted the clamor of “anti-American nationalists” with the silent majority who wanted the bases to stay. “Opinion polls show that two-thirds of [Filipinos] prefer that Subic Bay remain,” wrote the Chicago Tribune‘s Uli Schmetzer (9/10/91). […]
The Nuclear Industry’s Secret PR Strategy
One reason so many news articles and opinion pieces support nuclear technology is the massive public relations effort backed by both the nuclear industry, and state and local governments. One example of how the nuclear industry engineers media support was disclosed in November l991, when the Safe Energy Communication Council obtained a plan for a […]
