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The Bush administration and democratic uprisings across the Middle East. Also this week: Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Laurie Garrett shares why she won’t be going back to her job at New York’s Newsday. Notable among her reasons: Corporate media owners who, she says, serve stockholders first and Wall St. second, with readers somewhere far down the list.
How did media bungle coverage of Yaser Arafat’s death? And a closer, more critical look at Alberto Gonzales and his radical views, with Michael Ratner.
The crisis of September 11 touched on issues from Middle Eastern politics to skyscraper architecture, Islamic theology to the threat of unconventional weapons. It was a story, in other words, that most ordinary Americans could not easily interpret without help. FAIR has conducted a study to find out which experts the three major television news […]
On June 24, Israeli air raids on Lebanon killed at least nine Lebanese civilians and destroyed major bridges and power plants, plunging much of the country into darkness. In retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah against northern Israel, two Israeli civilians were also killed. This was by far the most intense violence between […]
No sooner was it established that Pan Am Flight 103 had been destroyed by a bomb than the U.S. media went into its predictable ritual. Journalists prepared President Reagan and President-elect Bush with all the usual questions: How can we bring terrorists to justice? Will we retaliate against any country harboring those responsible for bombing […]
