FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
For three and a half months, the world waited for Rush Limbaugh’s promised “point-by-point rebuttal” to FAIR’s report, “Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error” (Extra!, 7-8/94). On Oct. 11, Limbaugh’s “rebuttal” finally arrived–not with a bang but a dud. Limbaugh’s 37-page manuscript addresses only about half of the points on which FAIR had documented his inaccuracy. […]
The New York Times Book Review (10/16/94) ran a lengthy piece that had a simple message: It’s all right to believe that some races are genetically inferior to others. That was the underlying theme of Malcolm W. Browne’s review of three books: the widely publicized The Bell Curve, by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Philippe […]
Glass Houses Extra! noted last issue (“Felons on the Air: Does GE’s Ownership of NBC Violate the Law?”, 11-12/94) that GE‘s criminal record could potentially cost GE-owned NBC its broadcast licenses. The possibility has been hinted at in a bitter feud between NBC and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox TV. After Fox tried to get an NBC […]
The New Yorker magazine wrote an editorial (10/17/94) to mark President Aristide’s return to Port-au-Prince. “Political murders,” the liberal weekly stated, “have practically ended…. Haiti’s extreme human rights emergency — the reign of torture, terror and death…is for the moment over.” In fact, as the Weekly News Update on the Americas (published by the Nicaragua […]
