FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
USA Today doesn’t question NATO spending; NPR misremebers historical lesson on terror and elections; NYT throws shade at Roger Ailes for breaking from “journalistic detachment” in buildup to Iraq War while ignoring their own role; Fareed Zakaria can’t distinguish the obvious difference between Trump and Sanders’ stances on Brexit.
The DC Circuit Court agreed that reclassifying the internet is a step forward, a way to recognize profound changes that have occurred in the media landscape since the emergence of the web. Why, then, did NPR’s coverage of the ruling on All Things Considered seem to suggest the opposite?
A coalition airstrike reported on Tuesday that killed at least 85 civilians—one more than died in the Nice attack in France last week—wasn’t featured at all on the front pages of two of the top US national newspapers.
Coverage of Muhammad Ali’s death can be a sort of teaching moment for media watchers, in the sense that’s it good to remember that the version of a person that corporate media embrace and concretize in the public mind sometimes blurs that person’s political complexity.
