FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Election Focus 2020: Yes, Robert Johnson is black. Robert Johnson is also extremely wealthy; his wealth puts him in a demographic that has entirely different economic views and interests than the vast majority of the African-American population.
The conversation around When They See Us would be incomplete without a serious reckoning with corporate media’s role in fanning the flames of racist hysteria and misinformation.
“Within three months of being released from the court order, Tuscaloosa decided to break apart those integrated schools and create an entirely all-black feeder system.”
“Museums have always been conceived of as colonial structures. They’re a reflection of the society we live in. And at the same time, we know that they can be something different.”
After opening fire at worshipers celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Poway Synagogue near San Diego, California, 19-year-old John T. Earnest was arrested. Earnest killed one woman and injured three other worshippers before his semi-automatic weapon jammed and he fled the scene, calling 911 himself to report the shooting. The shooter published […]
Cultural institutions are important sites of public conversation, but the public doesn’t have much say in who gets to lead that conversation, or the stories they tell.
“These modern-day protest movements are critical to realizing the full potential of American democracy and promises to equality and racial justice. Those movements should not be surveilled.”
Janine Jackson interviewed Shireen Razack and Tawal Panyacosit Jr. about inclusion in television writing for the April 5, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. [mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Shireen Razack and Tawal Panyacosit Jr. Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin190405PanyacositRazack.mp3″] MP3 Link Janine Jackson: TV, for many of us, is a place where, at the end of […]
That diverse people need to be in the room, that reporting involves listening to and learning from them—now there’s a radical idea.
Year after year, we see people with disabilities, people of color, women and LGBTQ people un- and underrepresented in the rooms where ideas are generated. And, year after year, Hollywood pledges to “do better.”
For champions of civility coming to Tucker Carlson’s defense, the problem for public discourse is not his vile statements, but any suggestion that the public could be better served.
The ideological and operational differences between those who want to start a race war and those who want to stop one ought to be galactically obvious.
Several corporate media outlets thought it newsworthy to point out that prisoners at Coleman federal prison in Wildwood, Florida, received a routine holiday meal that was slightly above their normal, bottom-of-the-barrel provisions.
“Understanding the limits of the dialogue possible in the elite but influential press is crucial to understanding our political lives.”
Understanding the limits of the dialogue possible in the elite but influential press is crucial to understanding our political lives…and the importance of maintaining spaces where we can openly debate and challenge a status quo that is harming millions of people and the planet.
To emphasize the power of rural white voters in Mississippi—and elsewhere—without explicating that state’s long, sordid past as the lynching capital of the country does a disservice to the facts.
Commentary on a demonstration outside the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this month used an exaggerated version of events to delegitimize a wide range of protest tactics.
“I think we need to double down on what we have been doing, which is building multiracial coalition…understanding isolation is our enemy and the only way through this is together.”
Other people also have a worldview that connects Jews, black and brown people, immigrants and other disadvantaged communities—connects them in coalitions that recognize their shared vulnerability, and work together for social and economic justice.
The political violence whipped up by the president, the GOP and their media apparatuses last week was treated by many in corporate media as just one shot in an ongoing duel between equally violent left and right extremist fringes.
