FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Treacherous Voters Given that the conservative party line is that the primary defeat of Sen. Joe Lieberman (D.-Conn.) was good news for the Republican Party, pundits on the right still managed to seem awfully upset. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly (8/9/06) declared: “Joe Lieberman . . . did not sell out his country to pander to […]
When congressional Democrats in June proposed a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, this was portrayed by the New York Times as a real problem—for Democrats. The underlying assumption in the reporting was that this position was a risky one, playing right into the hands of Karl Rove and the GOP. A June […]
In the wake of the most serious outbreak of Israeli/Arab violence in years, three leading U.S. papers—the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times—have strongly editorialized that Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon were solely responsible for sparking violence, and that the Israeli military response was predictable and unavoidable. These editorials ignored […]
