FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“Social Security, and Medicare and Medicaid. In my 50 years working on the programs, this is the most severe threat I’ve ever seen to them.”
Leading newspapers still push the pernicious myth that Social Security is struggling and nearing insolvency, with few viable options for its rescue.
All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.
Criticism of DOGE by major editorial boards has been weak, and often overshadowed by the boards’ support for the ideas behind DOGE or DOGE itself.
“I found a bunch of liberal organizations that sought to reform this and that, expand this and that, or reestablish particular programs.”
“The opponents of Social Security have latched onto this unsurprising, manageable shortfall, and talked about the building’s on fire.”
When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling.
If there’s one thing the Washington Post doesn’t like about the debt ceiling deal, it’s that it didn’t cut Social Security.
The New York Times has been engaged in outright fearmongering over the size of the US federal debt over the past several months.
A ban on evictions. Required paid leave. Continuous Medicaid coverage. Free school meals. Emergency SNAP allotments. An extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits. Child tax credit expansion. Thousands in stimulus checks. These measures were part of a suite of policies the US government passed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic […]
In US corporate media, stingier pensions in France are portrayed as the inevitable result of “demographic stress,” not policy choices.
The Washington Post favors cuts over human welfare. Exactly the kind of perspective Bezos deemed well worth putting his money behind.
Saying how hard you want to be on “dealers” is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue.
A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.
Election Focus 2020: At the start of the Democratic primaries, the Sanders campaign utilized Biden’s long history of supporting cuts to popular entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security to devastating effect, so it’s no surprise that corporate media worked overtime to nullify one of the Sanders campaign’s strongest arguments.
Election Focus 2020: Headlines from 23 different media outlets covering Sanders’ critique of Biden’s Social Security record obscured crucial facts by making no mention of surely pertinent information.
“The more we can drag it into the sunlight, the more we can force them to defend the fact that they’re proposing stealing our benefits, the less they’re going to want to do it.”
The Trump administration is pushing a rule change to take Social Security benefits out of the reach of millions of people with disabilities. Never mind that it’s already hard to qualify, never mind that cutting benefits for many disabled people means taking them out of the workforce, never mind that people will die.
The New York Times report failed to inform readers on the remarkable injustice of cutting Social Security benefits, in view of where the funding gap came from.
The New York Times report failed to inform readers on the remarkable injustice of cutting Social Security benefits, in view of where the funding gap came from.
