FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The collective bargaining agreement between Vox Media and the Writers Guild of America East puts an end to one of the more contentious unionization battles that have gone on in US digital media. Vox management took longer to voluntarily recognize the union than other outlets, and workers recently staged a walk-out to protest Vox’s […]
The Slate Group refuses to back down from its demand that a contract make union fees optional, creating a so-called “right-to-work” environment that unions regard as union-busting.
In addressing Donald Trump’s virulent threats to the president of Iran, media have, minimally, the responsibility to separate accusation from reality, and to talk openly about how to resist the degeneration of diplomacy.
Tesla’s CEO has taken aim at the very press that has lauded his vision and business acumen in the past, and provided him the initial platform for converting readers and viewers into True Musk Believers.
“If the Denver Post goes away, it will be the first major city of its size without a local newspaper, and I think that would be disastrous.”
Corporate media report the Trump administration’s new rules, further controlling the reproductive healthcare that women reliant on federally funded family planning programs can receive, as a story about abortion–but proponents of such measures would tell you their designs are much, much bigger.
While Vox coverage of its corporate parents, siblings and cousins isn’t uniformly positive, all too often it is. Even in stories that aren’t more or less verbatim PR copy, disclosures ought to be mandatory—especially when it’s as direct as covering Comcast and NBC corporate.
To the extent that this service can really reach 50,000 people whom one wouldn’t have otherwise reached, it is part of the corruption of a thoroughly corrupt communications system. It’s part of the rigging of everything that breeds cynicism and resentment.
While welcome, disclosure is not an inoculation. We still look askance at a news story with lines like, “That the sale drew such strong spending from shoppers for a second year suggests that Amazon is making inroads establishing this as an appointment summer shopping event.”
The first thing the New York Times wants you to know about Sanders’ media criticism is that it’s wrong–because Sanders fails to appreciate the brave new media world.
A labor disruption at the Boston Globe by the paper’s deliverers broached the dividing wall between reporters and the people whose difficult and undercompensated labor brings those reporters’ work to much of the public.
If Al Jazeera America gave us one thing in its brief life in the United States, it was a dedication to covering economic inequality and the growing opposition to it in the wake of Occupy Wall Street.
“Local newspapers are the main vehicle for the public to get a glimpse of what’s going on at the level of government that most impacts their lives,” Naureckas told Common Dreams. “Las Vegas is a one-industry town, and Adelson is a casino billionaire who is part of that industry.”
The Washington Post’s sole owner, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is a major shareholder in Uber. While the Post occasionally mentions this glaring conflict when covering Uber, a large majority of its Uber-related articles make no mention of the boss’s stake.
On Fox News Channel, the real “bad guy” in Ferguson was the victim Michael Brown. The New York Times softens language around police violence. And a commercial for a new movie is “news”–on the movie studio’s TV network.
Why is ABC World News Tonight so excited about the new Star Wars movie? There’s at least one reason.
Where could Jeff Bezos have gotten the idea that it was OK to take away large sums of money that you promised people for their retirement after years of service? Well, maybe he reads the paper he just bought.
It’s 2003 all over again, as Iraq “experts” who promoted the 2003 invasion are back on TV screens offering expert analysis about what to do next. And we take a look at some of the revealing language US reporters are employing to frame Iraq as a place that keeps forcing the US to attack it. […]
One reaction I’ve seen to the accusations of plagiarism against Chris Hedges is, basically: Who cares? It’s true there are greater journalistic crimes than plagiarism. When a reporter fabricates stories, or passes along government lies as truth, people can get killed. Plagiarism has never started a war, as far as I can tell. But that […]
It doesn’t appear that ABC bothered with the sort of normal journalistic disclosure during its segment on its parent company’s theme park. Maybe it’s simply too hard to keep track of all the Disney promotion they’re doing.
