FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
When Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, came back to Washington in September to defend the current troop escalation, his path was smoothed in the media by two unlikely “critics.” On July 30, Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution penned a New York Times op-ed headlined “A War We […]
Once Rupert Murdoch’s bid to purchase the Dow Jones Company was made public, media watchers were nearly unanimous in bemoaning the ramifications of the deal. Observers warned that Dow Jones’ most important asset—the venerable Wall Street Journal—would be transformed from a respectable business-oriented national newspaper into a down-market, New York Post-style tabloid. As advocates for […]
Time Reporter’s Genius Fails Him You can’t expect much from a story about undervaluing intelligence that starts by noting that a 14-year-old girl “has the looks of a South American model.” Time‘s “Are We Failing Our Geniuses?” lives down to that beginning, with reporter John Cloud (best known for his defense of Ann Coulter–Time, 6/9/06) […]
After the August 7 Democratic debate, MSNBC reporter David Shuster weighed in with what the cable channel called a “truth squad” segment, ostensibly intended to fact-check various claims by the candidates. But the result had less to do with clarifying the facts than with protecting Bush from harsh criticism. In concluding his report, Shuster singled […]
