FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“Right now is the exact moment that we should be looking back on the conditions that marginalized people experienced at this country’s formal conception.”
In the words of Ida B. Wells: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.
“People want to talk so much about the King holiday as a time for community service, but it’s really a time for community action.”
The elite press corps that now pretend they honor Martin Luther King show that they never understood him—or those who share his vision today.
“If ICE is acting with such impunity and disregard for human life in broad daylight…what happens inside of immigration detention centers?”
“Every time this democracy has been threatened…the core of it has been the manipulation of racial resentment and white supremacy.”
US corporate media have a white supremacy problem: They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal.
Threats of funding cuts don’t just endanger nonprofits, they warp them—which is why putting political strings on funding violates the First Amendment.
The New York Times’ problem isn’t that it hasn’t probed deeply enough into the far-right psyche; it’s that it refuses to stop normalizing it.
Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
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.
“Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies.”
The 50-year mortgage plan, while dressed up as reform, is in reality part of an effort to normalize permanent indebtedness.
“They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism.”
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 conviction exposed flagrant flaws in corporate media’s storytelling around crime and punishment and race and power.
“We have not reconciled the history of… how government regulation was just reinforcing the racial apartheid that exists in our country.”
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.
“The ultra-wealthy get billions in tax breaks, while Black families lose the very programs that have historically provided pathways to the middle class.”
