FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
When Russia and Georgia clashed in August over Georgia’s separatist enclaves, U.S. corporate media frequently evoked the Cold War as a key to understanding the conflict—and they themselves certainly played their Cold War part, generally placing white hats on Washington’s allies and black hats on Moscow’s. On August 11, NBC Nightly News reporter Jim Maceda […]
Associated With Whom? “Obama Spares Details: Keeps Up Attacks.” —AP headline on Barack Obama’s acceptance speech (8/28/08) “McCain Makes Bipartisan Pitch as Leader for All.” —AP headline on John McCain’s acceptance speech (9/5/08) Having It Neither Way The Washington Post (8/10/08) ran a story headlined, “Obama Tax Plan Would Balloon Deficit, Analysis Finds.” Actually, though, […]
