FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Even before George W. Bush endorsed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, the amendment’s potential impact was clouded by careless reporting. Some advocates claimed that the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment would permit states to allow civil unions for gays and lesbians — a disputed interpretation that a number of media outlets failed to question. On […]
When journalist Christian Parenti was invited to talk about Iraq on the March 2 broadcast of PBS‘s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Parenti’s criticism of the reconstruction contracts granted to corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel seemed to cross a line for the program’s host. According to a report by Cynthia Cotts in the Village Voice newspaper […]
The Sunday morning interview shows on March 14 all devoted significant time to the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq. But viewers of these programs would have had a hard time finding a debate about the controversial decision to go to war. ABC‘s This Week with George Stephanopoulos featured an interview […]
No Reason for Skepticism New York Times assistant managing editor for “standards” Allan M. Siegal was asked on NPR‘s On the Media (3/5/04) whether his paper should have been more skeptical of the anonymous U.S. government accounts of the removal of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. “There was no reason at that time to be skeptical […]
