FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The New York Times ran a major news story on a study by Citigroup that was designed to scare people about the state of public pensions and encourage them to trust more of their retirement savings to the financial industry.
Would Garland vote like other Obama appointees, or would he be an ideological surprise? The scoring that the New York Times offers is of no help in answering that question.
FAIR contributing analyst Adam Johnson was invited to write a piece for the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” feature–on the topic “Has Sanders Not Been Taken Seriously Enough?”
There are no penalties for opposing same-sex marriage. The full spectrum of First Amendment activities are available to opponents of marriage equality, and require no special defense.
When real politics are at stake, corporate media often go out of their way to make races seem as boring as possible—to declare them over long before most citizens have had a chance to vote.
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.
As far as voters are concerned, Sanders and Clinton are exactly tied so far. It’s only when you count the intentions of superdelegates that Clinton has any sort of delegate lead, insurmountable or otherwise.
Former CIA chief Michael Hayden’s op-ed is long on fictional accounts of ultra-scrupulous drone planners worrying about striking civilians and completely lacking the real-life incidents where the US has mistakenly targeted weddings and deliberately hit funerals.
Dave Lindorff of This Can’t Be Happening! cited FAIR on New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes’ slam of Sandersnomics. Dollars & Sense also included Doug Henwood’s FAIR piece on a reading list on the controversy.
“Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’ Plans,” declared the New York Times. All the quoted economists have ties to the Democratic establishment, and their leftward lean would require very sensitive equipment to measure.
It’s true that there was an era when the Senate almost always gave near-complete deference to presidents’ judgment in naming Supreme Court justices; that era came to an end not in 1987 with Robert Bork, but in 1968 with Lyndon Johnson’s nomination of Abe Fortas.
The things David Brooks sees in Barack Obama that he misses in Bernie Sanders are interesting—because they’re revealing of the criteria establishment media use to place politicians either inside or out of the club.
The people who are most enthusiastically behind Trump have real problems with real consequences; they’re not likely to forget about them because Ted Cruz had a better get-out-the-vote operation in Iowa.
The dichotomy the New York Times draws between the “experienced” and “proven” candidates and presumably inexperienced, unproven outsiders doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny.
From the New York Times, you get that the indictment of videomakers who made a deceptive video attacking Planned Parenthood might hurt Ted Cruz, What you don’t get is a sense that a woman’s control over her own child-bearing is at stake.
The New York Times’ front-page story doesn’t point out how unlikely it is that North Korea has, in fact, detonated a hydrogen bomb.
The fact that a Supreme Court justice justifies eliminating affirmative action on the basis of openly racist views ought to be big news. By sugarcoating what Scalia actually said, the New York Times disguises that news.
Where could Donald Trump have gotten the idea that his “infantile threats of massive bombing” would be taken seriously as foreign policy proposals? Maybe he reads Thomas Friedman’s column.
Rather than “emerging” as a leader with no rival, Clinton’s aura of inevitability has faded as Sanders has shown surprising strength in polling, fundraising and ability to attract crowds.
Many were taken aback to read the New York Times‘ summary of what its team of reporters gleaned from interviewing neighbors of the man arrested for murdering three people at a Colorado Springs women’s health clinic: Acquaintances described Robert L. Dear Jr., who was arrested in a fatal rampage at a Planned Parenthood center in […]
