FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
On her October 7 broadcast, CNN‘s Connie Chung took a U.S. congressmember to task for doubting George W. Bush. After Rep. Mike Thompson (D.-Calif.) told Chung that there seemed to be no evidence that Iraq posed an immediate danger to the United States or its allies, the anchor responded, “Well, let’s listen to something that […]
The day after the huge October 26 antiwar protests in Washington, D.C. and around the country, the New York Times (10/27/02) severely downplayed their significance. The paper’s short, page-8 report claimed that the “thousands” of demonstrators in the capital were “fewer people…than organizers had said they hoped for.” Three days later (10/30/02), however, the same […]
