FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
False Positive The Washington Times (5/13/05), covering a gathering of conservative leaders in support of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R.-Texas), reported a claim by a prominent right-wing media activist: “L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, said a Google search produced 833,000 matches for Mr. DeLay’s name and the word ‘scandal.’” The […]
Sen. Trent Lott’s efforts to rehabilitate his public image were given a valuable boost by the Washington Post, which ran an uncritical profile in its April 14 edition. Lott (R.-Miss.) lost his position as Senate majority leader after comments he made at a December 2002 party for retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.) attracted publicity. Lott […]
New CNN president Jonathan Klein offered a novel theory about why there aren’t more progressives on television (Charlie Rose Show, 3/25/05): They aren’t angry enough. When asked if there could ever be a successful progressive version of Fox News Channel, Klein explained that while Fox was tapping into a brand of “mostly angry white men” […]
A front-page New York Times story (5/2/05) added to mounting evidence that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), under new chair Kenneth Tomlinson, is pressuring public television officials to produce more conservative programming and to rein in shows it perceives as liberal. “The Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is aggressively pressing public […]
