FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Many newspaper sections exists solely to serve specific types of advertisers—what Sunday paper would be complete without a Car or a Travel section? But in few sections of the paper does the advertiser have as much power as in the Real Estate pages.
So you want to be a big-time city editor like Lou Grant? Well, fine, but remember what happened to Lou Grant. He got cancelled. In real life these days, city news is bad news: taxes up, jobs and wages down; no money for schools, parks and bridges; banks in trouble, business threatening to leave; homelessness […]
When reading U.S. news coverage of international affairs, it pays to be alert, skeptical and familiar with alternative news sources. The mainstream media present the news with great assurance and glibness, moving together in the solid phalanx known as “pack journalism,” so their choices and formulations of the news seem natural and inevitable, even when […]
