FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Recent news reports (USA Today, 12/20/04; Daily Variety, 12/21/04) suggest that conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, seen currently on CNN and PBS, might find a new home: a prime-time show on MSNBC. With the departure of host Deborah Norville, MSNBC is reportedly considering Carlson to fill the 9 p.m. timeslot. His show would lead into Scarborough […]
September 28, 2004 Some callers to NBC Nightly News, responding to FAIR’s September 28 Action Alert, were told that FAIR’s transcript of Tom Brokaw’s item (9/24/04) on “liberals [who] want to ban the Bible” was incomplete. A spokesperson for NBC told callers that FAIR had left out a line in which a representative of a […]
The Disarmament Nightmare Subheads over a March 4 New York Times article: “More Missiles Destroyed; Washington Is Concerned Over Possible Complications for Effort to Disarm Iraq.” Nothing like disarming to complicate disarmament. NBC Nightly News (2/27/03) was even more alarmed about the missile destruction, with Andrea Mitchell reporting: “For the U.S., it’s a nightmare scenario. […]
A thirty-year veteran of network news at NBC and CBS, Marvin Kalb’s current position as Harvard’s leading press critic has made him one of the go-to guys when the question turns–as it often has this summer–to journalistic ethics. Whether appearing on PBS‘s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer or CNN‘s Reliable Sources (anchored by his brother Bernard), […]
(From “The Global Media Giants,” by Robert W. McChesney, Extra!, November/December 1997) $5 billion – 1996 sales General Electric is one of the leading electronics and manufacturing firms in the world with nearly $80 billion in sales in 1996. Its operations have become increasingly global, with non-U.S. revenues increasing from 20 percent of the total […]
The media guardians of the Conventional Wisdom long ago decided that the Iran/Contra scandal is an old, irrelevant story that we would be better off forgetting. When President George Bush, just after losing his re-election bid, pardoned many of the leading figures in the scandal, PBS‘s Robert MacNeil (12/24/92) asked, “Why not bring in the […]
When I got a call from NBC‘s Today show in June 1990, telling me they were interested in airing a story on consumer boycotts, naturally, as the editor of National Boycott News, I was enthusiastic. But I suspected there might be a problem when Amy Rosenberg from Today asked me for “the biggest boycott going […]
This is the second in a series on media corporations by the editor of Left Business Observer.
Shouldn’t we demand that media disclose their financial ties when they produce news stories that could impact the profits of their corporate parent?
