FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
At every home team baseball game, there are the same players, same ballpark, same uniforms, same rules. But the media would never conclude that coverage should shut down because there’s nothing new. Somehow, though, the standard that would never be applied to sports is the rule of thumb for covering cities: Ho-hum, they’re still poor […]
‘Politically Correct’ Since 1990, some news outlets have seemed less concerned about racism than about the allegedly overzealous activists who challenge inequality–denounced as “politically correct” in countless media stories. A computer search of the Los Angeles Times for the phrase “politically correct” or “political correctness” during the six months before the Rodney King case verdict […]
I often felt that the media assumed that, to be black, one had to espouse leftist ideas and Democratic politics. Any black who deviated from the ideological litany of requisites was an oddity and was to be cut from the herd and attacked…. There was, indeed, in my view, a complicity and penchant on the […]
Reports and opinion pieces in the mainstream press heralded speeches on the urban crisis given in March 1992 by Senators Bill Bradley and John F. Kerry as “courageous and important,” “straight talk” that expressed “bravery and candor.” (New Republic, 4/27/92; U.S. News & World Report, 4/20/92; New York Times, 3/29/92) New York Times columnist A.M. […]
