FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“I do think mainstream journalists need to understand the intersection between profit-making and incentives to go to war.”
If we cut off our ability to have a widespread public debate, whatever “solutions” we’re told “we” came up with have nothing to do with democracy.
Terms like “polarizing” and “controversial” are the outer limits of acceptable critique for mass murderers who happened to be US statesmen.
“The jury found not that our clients ‘claimed’ that they were tortured, but that our clients *were* subjected to torture.”
A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”
More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.
The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.
“The problem with not holding high-level officials to account is these abuses get replicated and indeed escalated.”
Unlike elite media’s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven’t been called to account.
“High-quality media outlets in the United States of America basically served as conveyor belts for pro-war propaganda.”
What passes for debate about why we must remain at war with whomever is designated has roots in 2003 worth studying.
On the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the New York Times says “it’s complicated” to a disaster it can’t admit it helped create.
A comparison of New York Times coverage of Ukraine and Iraq shows that the same kinds of news don’t always fit on the front page.
When Madeleine Albright died of cancer last month, a stream of fawning obituaries hailed her as a hero of NATO and a feminist icon.
TV coverage of Ukraine has both a familiar reliance on US officials to frame events and a newfound ability to cover the impact on civilians.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell received virtually wall-to-wall adulation in corporate media coverage of his death.
A retrospective look at FAIR’s coverage of two decades of media self-censorship, scapegoating and stenography.
One thing you won’t find in corporate media obituaries of Donald Rumsfeld is any estimate of how many people died in the wars he was in charge of launching.
Corporate media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, US actions abroad.
“The idea that they were invading Iraq based on faulty intelligence has it exactly backwards. They had already decided they wanted to invade Iraq. So the intelligence was then used to justify a pre-existing policy.”
