FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Right on cue, the American media published dressed-up FBI press releases about the “disrupted” plot. These outlets, as usual, omitted the rather awkward fact that this “ISIS plot” did not actually involve anyone in ISIS.
Elite journalists work for corporate news outlets that are designed to bolster power rather than challenge it. Whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden upset the sources of elite journalists’ power.
The literature that justifies or encourages war is not divorced from the responsibility for the cause of war itself.
Remembering ‘News Dissector’ Danny Schechter When I launched FAIR in 1986, we had virtually no allies in the mainstream media. Except for Danny, then a producer at ABC’s 20/20. He was full of encouragement—telling us how important that we launch this group to monitor corporate media misdeeds. He gave us at FAIR crucial advice in […]
