At Elite Media, ‘Scientific’ Racists Fit in Fine
Nicholas Wade’s embrace of the pseudoscience of eugenics raises questions about his tenure at the New York Times, and about corporate media vigilance when it comes to racism.
FAIR TV: August 29, 2014
On the show this week: On the day of his funeral, the New York Times declared that Michael Brown was “no angel.” We look at that and other shoddy reporting from Ferguson. Plus Newsweek spreads farfetched fear about Ebola and African immigrants, and we look at how often union leaders appear on the Sunday chat […]
Trust the New York Times to Tell You Not to Trust Twitter
The Newspaper of Record wants you to know that you shouldn’t trust Twitter’s coverage of Ferguson. But their examples of inaccuracies aren’t all that convincing
If Social Media ‘Silence Debate,’ What Do Corporate Media Do?
A new study has some outlets saying that social media inhibit debate. You want to compare Twitter’s record to the corporate media on that score?
Michael Brown, According to the New York Times
The New York Times makes some curious choices in its coverage of the victim in the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting.
Give Killer Cops a Break, Says NYT
The message from the NY Times: Police officers who shoot unarmed civilians need to be be given the benefit of the doubt.
How the New York Times Twists Gaza
Israel’s war on Gaza is still going on, with a round of airstrikes that killed dozens this week. And how was this reported in the New York Times? As Hamas breaking a cease-fire agreement.
Action Alert: NYT Skips First Big Test of New Torture Policy
FAIR’s new Action Alert (8/18/14) calls out the New York Times for not covering a major Amnesty International report on US torture—shortly after the paper announced a new policy of calling torture by its right name. If you send a message to the Times, please leave a copy in the comments thread to this post. […]
FAIR TV: Ferguson, Back to Iraq and Disputing Gaza Deaths
Some good–and not so good–media reactions to the police killing of Michael Brown. Plus pundits wonder what took Obama so long to bomb Iraq, and two papers try to raise doubts about the death toll in Gaza.
Has the Right Really Shifted on Police Militarization and Abuse?
It would be wonderful if more Republicans–and, for that matter, more Democrats–were speaking out about police abuses and related issues. But treating one lawmaker’s op-ed as a sign of a fundamental shift on the right seems a bit of an overreach.
Death in Gaza: Some Counts More Controversial than Others
When it comes to the death toll in Gaza, the Washington Post and New York Times both work hard to muddy up the picture.
If Only Obama Had Bombed More, and Sooner
More US bombing is a message corporate media are eager to amplify.
NY Times and Torture: A Decade Too Late?
Ten years later, the New York Times will call torture by its name. But does the paper’s reasoning make any sense?
Do Palestinians Living in Israel Count?
If a poll of a country’s population excludes 20 percent of the people who live there, journalists should make that clear.
Did New Gaza Cease-Fire Start With an Israeli Airstrike?
The New York Times reported that Israel launched an airstrike moments after it announced a cease-fire. But then the paper changed the story dramatically.
NYT’s Iran Correction Needs a Correction
In today’s New York Times corrections box (8/1/14): An article on Wednesday about demands among both parties in Congress that the Obama administration allow a vote on any agreement with Iran on its nuclear weapons program misstated, in some editions, the value of assets that Iran will have access to under an agreement. It is more than […]
Media Hype and Gaza’s ‘Terror’ Tunnels
CNN and NY Times hype Israeli claims about Hamas tunnels–and omit some important facts.
Are People Who Shoot Down Passenger Planes ‘War Criminals’—or ‘Hard to Fault’?
If you’re going to shoot down a civilian jetliner–from the New York Times’ point of view–it helps to be working for the US Navy when you do it.
NYT Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?
The New York Times rewrote a headline about Palestinian kids being killed on a beach to remove the fact that they were killed.
All They Will Call You Will Be Detainees
One of corporate journalism’s bad habits is framing international stories on the premise that news is what happens to the US. There is no better recent example of this than the story of tens of thousands of children fleeing Central America.
