FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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 […]
This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court and Indiana’s voter ID law, with Justin Levitt of NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice. Also on the program: Blogger/writer Sara Robinson joins to discuss how media coverage surrounding the recent raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch turned sensationalized + the legal implications of this story.
The June 2007 Supreme Court decision sharply limiting the use of race in public school admissions was viewed with dismay by many educators, civil rights activists and others who support diversity in our nation’s public schools. As Ted Shaw, the director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, explained, “In the context of segregated […]
This week on CounterSpin: The recent June 28 Supreme Court ruling and the media’s response, with Tammy Johnson of the Applied Research Center. Also on the show: Rachel Morris on Al-Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj, a story that has gone largely unnoticed by the U.S. press.
This week on CounterSpin: MediaChannel’s Danny Schechter about the Alito hearings. Also on the show: Stephen Zunes discusses how mainstream narratives have misrepresented Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, incorrectly painting him as a peacemaker.
Like much of the mainstream media coverage, Newsweek magazine’s August 1 cover story on Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts was overwhelmingly positive. But Newsweek went even further than most, dismissing as inaccurate stories that depicted Roberts as a conservative partisan—even though it was Newsweek, in fact, that was getting the stories wrong. Newsweek led […]
On November 7, 2001, a reader of the political website MakeThemAccountable.com made a series of predictions about how the news media would cover a long anticipated review of uncounted Florida ballots from the 2000 presidential election: The data will show that Gore won, but the article will be written to obscure that fact…. The headline […]
If there is one image that has come to epitomize the abortion debate, it is pro-choice and anti-abortion demonstrators shouting at each other, brandishing placards. Mainstream media specializes in “extremists of both ends” coverage, bemoaning the “angry rhetoric” of both sides. The search for “compromise” has long been a staple of abortion reporting, and in […]
