FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Nothing makes a newspaper prouder than a juicy foreign policy scoop. Except, it seems, when the scoop ends up raising awkward questions about a U.S. administration’s drive for war. Back in 1999, major papers ran front-page investigative stories revealing that the CIA had covertly used U.N. weapons inspectors, known as UNSCOM, to spy on Iraq […]
CounterSpin: Mainstream U.S. media love dissent. They love to report about it and editorialize in favor of it—when it happens in places like China or Cuba. The Washington Post and the New York Times have even endorsed armed dissent, editorializing in the 1980s in favor of aid to rebel armies. But when dissent comes home, […]
Recent statements made by Ann Coulter raise the question of whether the author is not merely careless with facts but deliberatively deceptive.
A famine is raging through southern Africa—a famine that Doctors Without Borders has called among the worst in Africa in the past decade. The international relief organization CARE reports that the famine “is largely the result of one of the worst droughts in a decade” and that “severe hunger—even starvation—threatens millions, particularly among the […]
Forest fires last summer provided the media with dramatic images of walls of flames and smoke-choked skies, soundbites from terrified and frustrated citizens, and tales of fearless firefighters. The overarching message of such news reports: Forest fires are a terrible disaster, something to be fought at all costs. These stories, in turn, provided fuel for […]
From September 25 to September 29, activists rallied in Washington, D.C. for the first large-scale U.S. protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On Friday, September 27, several hundred people—including activists, bystanders and journalists—were arrested en masse in what appears to have been an illegal […]
