FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
In July, the anti-feminist Independent Women’s Forum scored a double win worthy of the Women’s National Basketball Association: IWF representatives published op-ed articles in the New York Times (7/10/97) and the Wall Street Journal (7/11/97) on consecutive days with the very same message. And the message was repeated a third time on CBS Evening News […]
In February (2/11/97), as the French election campaign approached, the New York Times ran a front-page “special report” from France. Entitled “Liberty, Equality, Anxiety,” the report by Roger Cohen was accompanied by a menacing photograph of a rally for far-right nationalist Jean-Marie LePen’s National Front party, featuring a giant poster of a grinning LePen. “France […]
ABC probably doesn’t want people to think it’s in the business of passing off urban folklore stories as real news, or altering the facts of stories to fit a conservative spin. But that’s what one of its most listened to broadcasters does–six days a week. Paul Harvey is regarded as a broadcasting icon. An institution. […]
“The forces of terrorism are in a coalition, engaged in an information warfare campaign against Israel, a campaign in which the American news media is serving as the witting or unwitting ally of Arafat.” So House speaker Newt Gingrich (R.-Ga.) told the cheering audience at AIPAC’s (American-Israeli Political Action Committee) national convention (C-SPAN, 4/8/97). Democrats […]
The benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement were obvious to mainstream U.S. media back in 1992-93. The New York Times (7/21/92) said NAFTA promised “jobs, wealth and economic activity throughout the continent.” The Washington Post declared (9/14/93) that “the list of new opportunities and advantages is a long one,” while insisting (5/11/93) that […]
