FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
If the Hollywood Reporter was planning to be asking questions like, “How do you approach different ethnicities and cultures in animation?” you’d think it would try to get to get some kind of diversity in its panel of animation directors.
L.A. Times film critic Kenneth Turan (7/2/10), reviewing Oliver Stone’s documentary South of the Border, remarks in passing that “a recent piece in the New York Times pointed out numerous errors” in the film’s discussion of Latin American politics. Turan might have noticed that the Times‘ supposed debunking, by former Latin American correspondent Larry Rohter, […]
David Ansen (Newsweek, 12/22/08) has a point when he says that the movie Borat “epitomized the [Bush] era.” But he strikes a jarring note when he says: Racism, misogyny and homophobia come pouring out of the mouths of [Sasha] Baron Cohen’s unsuspecting dupes, and in a time of political correctness, when the slightest suggestion of […]
“Guantánamo, a prison in no way ready to close, is at the heart of a conversation that almost no one seems willing to open.” Since September 27, 2007, when Karen Greenberg closed an article on TomDispatch.com with that observation, a media conversation about torture has unexpectedly taken off. The New York Times (10/4/07) published a […]
FAIR noticed that the news outlets and journalists that attacked the film JFK the most vociferously were the ones with the longest records of error and obstruction in defense of the flawed Warren Commission inquiry.
