FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Michael Moore likes to ask the question: “What if the rest of us had a TV show?” We might want an amiably unkempt, roly-poly everyman in a baseball cap for an anchor. We’d want to fly a kite with suicide-assisting doctor Jack Kevorkian, and run a convicted felon for president under the slogan, “From the […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s spectrum excludes “unvarnished progressives” while making sure that antisemites have someone to represent them.
The topic was women. The place was China. And mainstream media in the United States still managed to focus on men and politicians in D.C. Consider any topic, from the global economy to health care, to education and technology–the women in China were discussing it. Looking for a variety of perspectives on those issues? The […]
The prospect of CBS being taken over by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation–the biggest nuclear power plant manufacturer in the world; the No. 3 U.S. government contractor for nuclear weapons; the manager of a string of government nuclear weapons facilities, including several heavily polluted sites–is being met with sharp criticism by safe energy activists. “We now […]
The myth of the feminist dominatrix lives. When a handful of right-wing women founded the “Independent Women’s Forum” in 1992, they did so because “they felt invisible in a media culture that tends to represent all professional women as liberal Democrats” and they wanted “to get conservative women’s views heard in the media and on […]
Amid teenage girl magazines’ standard fare of earnest advice about boyfriends, self-esteem and cosmetics purchases, Sassy was always a stand-out. Take how Sassy dealt with the issue of flirting. The cover of the September 1994 issue might not have stood out on the newsstand—”How to Flirt Like an Animal” was the main story. But rather […]
