FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret overseas prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information—the location of these secret prisons—at the request of government […]
O’Reilly to Al-Qaeda: ‘Go Ahead’ “If Al-Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, ‘Look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.’” –Bill O’Reilly’s response to San […]
Imagine a major mainstream media figure stating that the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq are not really such a big deal. You might expect that pundits across the political spectrum would attack such a statement as an affront to the troops and a belittling of their sacrifices. But you don’t have to imagine; this […]
