FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Two recent FAIR studies highlighted the lack of diversity at National Public Radio—both in the boardrooms that have authority over its member stations and in the perspectives that are aired on its most prominent news shows.
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news–and so is a lot of the same old misinformation. Plus we’ll look at how some TV journalists think about how war “works,” and at what exactly NPR’s Scott Simon asked comedian Bill Cosby.
NPR’s Scott Simon didn’t ask Bill Cosby about the sexual assault allegations made against him by numerous women. There was no “rape question.”
To the extent that Anya Kamenetz’s tweet reflected “innocence,” it’s of a sort people of color and women can ill afford from journalists,
The New York Times announced that Jill Abramson, who has the top editorial job there of executive editor, is being replaced by current managing editor Dean Baquet. Whether Baquet will be good for investigative reporting at the Times remains to be seen.
On the question of whether or not Christie is a bully, veteran Fox pundit Brit Hume blamed that perception on our “feminized atmosphere.”
Over the past decade, it has gotten much more difficult for women in the United States to access safe and legal abortion services. How have national media kept up with this dramatically changing landscape? Not so well.
News outlets have been profiling stay-at-home fathers, who say they love being there for their kids even though it was hard to transition from the workforce to full-time parenting. It’s good to see media addressing gender norms, but there was not a lot of diversity among the interviewees in this small sample of articles.
One of the most important facts left out while discussing breadwinners? Of female breadwinners in America, 63 percent are single moms with a median family income of just $23,000.
Everyone heard about the one state senator in Texas who stood up–literally–for a woman’s right to choose. But there was little commotion after recent abortion-restricting legislation in Ohio was passed. The budget bill Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed late last month had numerous anti-abortion provisions in it. Similar laws are starting to be enforced this month […]
With the tagline “The Magazine for Men,” it is almost unsurprising that Port magazine, a British quarterly, celebrated “A New Golden Age: The Increasing Importance of Print Media” by putting six white men on its cover. Not surprising, but also not excusable.
Seeing a photograph of USA Today founder Al Neuharth above the fold in the edition of his newspaper that reported his death calls to mind a rather famous story about Neuharth’s outburst at a 1983 USA Today editorial meeting.
This week on FAIR TV: Joe Scarborough remembers some things about the Iraq War–but forgets the things he said back then. We’ll take a look at the CNN Steubenville coverage that had so many critics outraged. And the Washington Post presented two takes on drone deaths in Pakistan.
In most places, a record like Bob Beckel would probably lead your employer to tell you to take your act elsewhere. But if you’re running a right-wing propaganda network, he’s a pretty valuable “leftist” to keep around.
Christina Hoff Sommers, who played a starring role in the anti-feminist backlash of the 1990s, is back again with a new edition of her book The War Against Boys. Originally subtitled How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, it’s now relabeled How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men; she now stresses–in a major […]
AP’s intention was presumably to remain neutral on the issue of marriage equality–but its initial policy did take a position, indicating that no matter what their state government says, AP was not going to consider legally married same-sex couples to be really married.
The religious-themed website Beliefnet bills itself as offering “something for everyone” with a “broad editorial point of view.” Unfortunately, as playwright and pastor Kristine Holmgren found when she was offered a chance to blog there, in Beliefnet’s eyes, “everyone” does not include feminists.
Bill O’Reilly wants Congress to investigate Planned Parenthood for being an “abortion mill.” In the real world, very little of their work is related to abortion services. But why let facts get in the way?
Take my word for it. Diane Sawyer, ABC World News (6/21/12): And now to the ongoing master class in letting your hair down, by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.These past few months, we’ve been watching her swig a beer, brandish a scrunchie without apology, and makeup free and telling everybody she doesn’t care what they […]
Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh used to tell his listeners that the government was trying to silence him, based on a completely bogus tale about what the Fairness Doctrine would do. This time around, it’s an ad campaign by the liberal group Media Matters for America directed at some of the stations that air Limbaugh’s show. […]
