FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“If we can’t see the money that’s going out, we can’t make any evaluation on whether it’s a good use of our money.”
Sunshine Week is meant to be both a celebration and a call to arms to anyone seeking to bring the actions of the powerful to light.
The Trump administration’s raid on Natanson’s home is the latest escalation in a history of government attacks on whistleblowing.
Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.
The Wall Street Journal comes out against journalism that exposes how powerful institutions function.
Despite the large size and international reach of the event, a global day of protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza was completely ignored by the New York Times.
The fact of the matter is that investigative journalism can only happen because of leakers who take great risks.
As Julian Assange has nearly exhausted his appeals against a US extradition order, Australia has ramped up its advocacy on his behalf.
“The public [has] an extreme interest in protecting the ability of people inside the government to give information without authorization.”
When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling.
“It’s not a perfect solution to prevent these prosecutions, but [Amendment 617] would remove the immense procedural hurdles that rob a whistleblower of any basic constitutional due process rights when charged with the Espionage Act.”
A Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted multiple legally and societally established precedents.
“From the Pentagon Papers to the Drone Papers, the US government has sought to conceal the realities of its warmaking, and take from us our ability to make democratic choices about what our government is doing.”
Daniel Hale stands convicted of revealing things the US government didn’t want known about its drone warfare programs—the ones elite media have often presented as precise in separating “bad guys” from “innocents.”
Please tell the New York Times to set the historical record straight by correcting its story to note that Daniel Ellsberg did in fact give the Pentagon Papers to the Times.
“We need to ensure that as the news evolves, our thinking about what is protected by the First Amendment, and by free speech laws internationally, also evolves.”
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“It really becomes all about trying to focus on the messenger and not the message, to discredit, to deflect attention. It also, certainly, creates a chilling effect on others who might think about speaking, supporting the whistleblowers’ disclosures, or coming forward on other issues.”
We’re in uncharted water with Trump and impeachment; part of what’s exceptional are Trump’s open threats to the whistleblower who brought forth the evidence of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. What protections does that person have? And what’s media’s role and responsibility?
Katharine Gun’s revelations showed before the invasion that people on the inside, whose livelihood depends on following the party line, were willing to risk jail time to expose the lies and threats.
