FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
When elements of the Venezuelan military forced President Hugo Chávez from office in April, the editorial boards of several major U.S. newspapers, following the U.S. government’s lead, greeted the news with enthusiasm.
The Israeli-Palestinian war has a profound effect on the children of the region. As NBC‘s Tom Brokaw put it on the April 11 Nightly News, “All of this is making the children of war, on both sides, grow old before their time.” The piece that followed, however, concerned only children on one side. Correspondent Keith […]
Charlie Rose is a correspondent for CBS News’s 60 Minutes II in addition to hosting his own talkshow on PBS. But those journalistic duties didn’t stop him from MCing this year’s Coca-Cola shareholders’ meeting. Held at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in New York, the star-studded extravaganza featured celebrities like Jon Bon Jovi and […]
A study released by Consumers Union in May found that nearly three-fourths (73 percent) of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables had traces of pesticides, while less than a quarter (23 percent) of organic produce had such residues. When organic food did have detectable levels of pesticides, the amounts were generally lower than in conventional produce, […]
