FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
On Sunday the Pete Peterson Foundation took out an ad in the Washington Post touting its upcoming “Fiscal Summit,” which will feature speeches by the likes of Bill Clinton, Paul Ryan and Alan Simpson. Panels will be moderated by Gwen Ifill, George Will and others. The hook is that Peterson is promoting a “Solutions Initiative,” […]
The subhead sums up the point of USA Today‘s lead story today (2/14/11) about Barack Obama’s budget proposal: Obama Proposes Cuts to Trim Deficit; GOP, Others Want More The piece by Richard Wolf and Mimi Hall begins, “President Obama will send Congress a 2012 budget today that would trim the budget deficit by $1.1 trillion […]
Billionaire Pete Peterson has spent a lot of money trying to convince people that Social Security is a serious threat to the country’s finances. And it’s a message that the corporate media love to echo. So when Peterson’s group decided to hold “town hall” meetings to promote fiscal austerity by cutting Social Security and Medicare, […]
At the end of 2009, the Washington Post published an article that was produced by the Fiscal Times. As FAIR noted in an Action Alert (1/6/10): The article, headlined “Support Grows for Tackling Nation’s Debt” (12/31/09), was a product of the Fiscal Times, described in an accompanying note as “an independent digital news publication reporting […]
You know, the fact of the matter is we have to change how we do things. We are on an imprudent and unsustainable path in a number of ways. You talk about debtors’ prisons, we used to have debtors’ prisons, now bankruptcy is no taint! Bankruptcy is an exit strategy! Our society and our culture […]
The New York Times (11/23/09) has an editorial on its front page today disguised as a news story. Appearing under the headline “Federal Government Faces Balloon in Debt Payments,” Times business reporter Edmund Andrews makes an impassioned plea for the neo-Hooverist economics popular in corporate media: Claiming that “the government faces a payment shock similar […]
