FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The white-owned press didn’t just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
Terms like “polarizing” and “controversial” are the outer limits of acceptable critique for mass murderers who happened to be US statesmen.
The 1967 Carnegie Commission called for public TV to “provide a voice for groups…that may otherwise be unheard.” Bill Moyers exemplified that ideal.
The obituaries for Pope Francis in the leading US newspapers ignored the late pontiff’s commitment to the Palestinian people.
No one did more to analyze the negative impacts of our media systems being controlled by giant, amoral corporations.
Targeting journalists appears to be part of Israel’s efforts to prevent documentation of its atrocities.
After the Israeli military killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, it didn’t take long for the usual media suspects to line up with their anti-eulogies.
More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.
Phil Donahue was a trailblazer in bringing social issues to a national audience as a daytime broadcast TV host, and then he was pretty much banished from TV by MSNBC.
When Madeleine Albright died of cancer last month, a stream of fawning obituaries hailed her as a hero of NATO and a feminist icon.
The day Lani Guinier’s nomination was withdrawn, the New York Times ran an op-ed that falsely claimed she favored “segregating Black voters.”
The US role in supporting dictatorship in South Korea and its involvement in a 1980 massacre were either erased or whitewashed.
Obituaries often underplayed how Desmond Tutu normalized the idea that Palestinians also suffered under an apartheid system.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell received virtually wall-to-wall adulation in corporate media coverage of his death.
Some US media are now lauding Jim Loewen, but without ceasing to generate the very sort of misty misinformation he fought against.
One thing you won’t find in corporate media obituaries of Donald Rumsfeld is any estimate of how many people died in the wars he was in charge of launching.
Rush Limbaugh left behind a legacy of lies, bigotry, science denial and conspiracy mongering—as well as a media and political system significantly transformed by his influence.
Rush Limbaugh left behind a legacy of lies, bigotry, science denial and conspiracy mongering—as well as a media and political system significantly transformed by his influence.
Assessments that judge George Shultz to be one of “the good guys,” with a commitment to things like freedom, human dignity and humanity, necessarily gloss over his role in both the Iraq War and the Iran/Contra scandal.
The New York Times has it exactly backwards: Kramer’s confrontational approach didn’t “overshadow his achievements,” they are what made his achievements possible.
