FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Since winning control of Congress, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R.-Ga.) has constantly complained about “destructive” and “negative” coverage from the “liberal elite media.” For example, when asked on Nightline (11/29/94) about his reference to the Clintons as “counter-culture McGoverniks,” he first insisted that he had been misquoted—”I used the term McGovernite, not McGovernik—it was one of […]
The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, public television’s flagship news program, is being bought out by a private, for-profit media conglomerate. Liberty Media, a subsidiary of TCI, the nation’s largest cable systems operator, is buying two-thirds of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, the show’s producer. The mere fact that the NewsHour can be absorbed by a corporate media conglomerate illustrates how […]
