FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
It was shocking, but hardly surprising, when Paul Hill was arrested for the killing of a doctor and his escort outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic on July 29. After all, the former minister had been advocating such action on national TV for more than a year. Appearing as a guest on CNN‘s Sonya Live […]
Martin Peretz said blacks had “cultural deficiencies” at a March 21 breakfast hosted by the American Jewish Committee. With minimal differences in phrasing, his remarks were subsequently reported in both Newsday (3/22/94) and the Washington Post (3/28/94). It seemed to me a good opportunity to play the “blanket condemnation” game in reverse. We’re all familiar […]
Rush Limbaugh has tried to defend a few of the dozens of inaccuracies FAIR documented in “Limbaugh’s Reign of Error” (Extra!, 7-8/94). Unfortunately, his responses to charges of inaccuracy were filled with the same sorts of inaccuracies that our original report documented. Limbaugh’s most extended response was made on his July 5 radio show, where […]
On ABC‘s Nightline, from July 1993 until the November 1994 election, there were only two mentions of the Canadian single-payer healthcare system: On a March 1994 show, an insurance representative made dire, unsupported predictions that with single-payer “there will definitely be limitations on your selection options in your future.” On a September 1993 broadcast that […]
If You Remember the 60’s…You’re Not Rush Limbaugh LIMBAUGH: “The liberals sit out there and suggest, as Vic Fazio did, that it is the radical right that’s acting in a stealth manner. And the Christians and the religious right are about to take over America. Note that Mr. Fazio probably had no trouble with the […]
In her book Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, Christina Hoff Sommers sounds the alarm. “American feminism is currently dominated by a group of women who seek to persuade the public that American women are not the free creatures we think we are,” she writes. Such feminists have “alienated and silenced women and […]
