FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That’s part of a timeworn pattern: Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed in 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” […]
As the poet Robert Burns noted, it’s hard to see ourselves as others see us—especially if we rely on the mainstream U.S. press. Here’s a paragraph from an editorial in the Los Angeles Times—headlined “Lifesaving Trade Policies” (1/2/03): Yes, the $1.66 billion the Bush administration has earmarked for international development aid in fiscal year 2004 […]
FAIR values the opportunity to comment on the rules currently under consideration in the FCC’s 2002 Biennial Review. Unfortunately, the complicated and technical nature of the FCC’s public comment procedure does not encourage–and some would argue actually discourages–significant participation from the public, the citizens whose interests the FCC is supposed to safeguard. In addition, the […]
