FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Responding to “both Likud Party members in Israel as well as their Americans supporters” who “complain that the Obama administration is unduly ‘interfering’ in Israeli politics”–as exemplified by Ben Smith of Politico reporting that “the administration’s escalating pressure on Israel to freeze all growth of its settlements on Palestinian land has begun to stir concern […]
Politico‘s Mike Allen writes (5/27/09): The media’s left-of-center bias is rarely more apparent than during court fights. The coverage running up to the pick was slanted heavily toward the notion of how “pragmatic” Obama’s legal views are and how unlikely he was to pick a liberal. So coverage of Supreme Court fights is one […]
Blogging at SinglePayerAction.org today (5/4/09), Corporate Crime Reporter‘s Russell Mokhiber describes the contents of a “much-hyped special section on healthcare” from Politico that features below the headline a Matt Wuerker cartoon of “the U.S. healthcare system” as a patient–“and you can’t touch patient or you’ll get zapped. As in: ‘Bzzt! Don’t even go near proposing […]
A Tiny Revolution blogger Jonathan Schwarz (4/18/09) samples the response to Mike Allen of Politico‘s quote of “a former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush” calling the publishing of U.S. torture memos “damaging because these are techniques that work“: This, from Andrew Sullivan, is a representative example of the reaction: Allen […]
Blogging on “Greta Van Susteren’s defensive response” to reports “saying that one of the reasons that Sarah Palin has been caught up in a ‘series of public relations gaffes’ is because she is ‘taking advice from Greta and her husband,’” major GOP booster John Coale, the Huffington Post‘s Geoffrey Dunn (3/29/09) thinks the Fox News […]
Politico reported (2/16/09) that a new poll shows that support for the Fairness Doctrine has dropped. Unfortunately, the policy described in the poll question bears no relationship to the Fairness Doctrine as it actually existed. The Rasmussen polling firm asked respondents whether “the government should require all radio stations to offer equal amounts of conservative […]
