FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Editorializing in the Wall Street Journal (3/18/09) on how “Financial Journalists Fail Upward,” Wrecking Crew author Thomas Frank sees the “world of financial infotainment” as its own “market where accountability does not seem to exist” and in which “the old order discredits itself, but the old order persists nevertheless”: This needs to be repeated every […]
Calling it “obvious” that “promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself,” the latest from Thomas Frank (Wall Street Journal, 2/18/09) explains the corporate media’s fetish for bipartisanship: For the Beltway commentariat, however, transcending partisanship is the most meaningful of issues, more important, […]
