FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“Their goal here is to make people afraid of expressing a very normal human opinion.”
Wikipedia has been attacked before by countries with censorious reputations. The Trump administration is inclined to join the club.
US media have institutionalized the practice of beating around the bush when it comes to documenting Israeli crimes.
“There’s suffering on a mass scale in Yemen, and the United States bears tremendous responsibility for that.”
The obituaries for Pope Francis in the leading US newspapers ignored the late pontiff’s commitment to the Palestinian people.
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
In the case of Israel, corporate media have institutionalized the practice of dancing around the straightforward statement of fact.
“It’s not just one person or two people, it’s thousands of people that oppose these policies, and are trying to fight back.”
Ozturk might be the first student to be targeted specifically for engaging in journalism deemed offensive by the state.
Pretending protest isn’t happening is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it’s telling lies about who we are and what we can do.
Political cartoonists routinely compare Palestinians and the Palestinian cause to Nazis and Nazism.
Targeting journalists appears to be part of Israel’s efforts to prevent documentation of its atrocities.
The function of the corporate media is to endow demonstrably false US/Israeli accusations with a veneer of solid credibility.
The response to Columbia’s protests from establishment media laid the groundwork for this fascistic nightmare.
The Murdoch press’s celebration of the misery visited upon Mahmoud Khalil hearkens back to the “War on Terror.”
In reporting on its historic Oscar win, many publications avoided describing No Other Land in detail, or relied on the passive voice to obscure its specifics.
Trump has come out with a diktat threatening sanctions against any educational institution that tolerates forbidden demonstrations.
“What we’re talking about is driving out the indigenous population so that settlers can take over their land.”
Corporate media can’t bring themselves to call Trump’s illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.
Of the articles surveyed on Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, 87% chose not to call it ethnic cleansing.
