FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
A deluge of stories commemorated the 25th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death—from Time to the National Enquirer, from Geraldo Rivera to MacNeil/Lehrer—including over 30 hours of primetime programming. The media took a second look at the possibility of a second gunman in reports ranging from the serious (PBS Nova’s probe of the scientific evidence) to […]
“Look Mom, Star Trek.” “Hey, I thought you said you were going to watch public TV.” “This is public TV!” “Then how come I just saw Tony the Tiger on an ad?” Mom’s wrong. First of all, that was no ad, it was “enhanced underwriting,” a plug for a corporate contributor. Second, Junior’s as likely […]
If the presidential campaign often resembled a circus, television was its distorting mirror—turning election realities upside down. The winning candidate carried around four names—George Herbert Walker Bush—degrees from elite schools Andover Academy and Yale, residences in many states. Yet on TV he ran as Joe Sixpack, while his opponent spent most of the campaign denying […]
