FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Concern has been mounting rapidly throughout Europe over the effects of depleted uranium (DU) munitions used by NATO in Bosnia and Yugoslavia during the 1994-95 and 1999 wars. At least 12 soldiers—six Italian, five Belgian and one Portuguese— who served in the Balkans have died of leukemia or other forms of cancer; several Italian, Spanish, […]
In their zeal to present the war against Yugoslavia as a moral crusade, members of the media sometimes slipped into the logic of ethnic cleansing.
Dan Rather: On my second trip to Belgrade I was there the night they turned off the lights. Remember, the first time we had a raid that shutdown the power, turned off the lights for most of Yugoslavia and that also meant turning off the water because the water needed the power to go. You […]
On April 1, ABC‘s Nightline did a segment that criticized the one-sided coverage of the war—on Serbian TV. Reviewing supposedly absurd claims, ABC aired what it described as “this astonishing claim” from a Belgrade news account: They even use radioactive weapons…which are forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Astonishing, perhaps—but is it true? The fact is, […]
