FAIR

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, the national progressive media watch group. Producers of the radio show CounterSpin and publishers of the newsletter Extra!.

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2024-08-19 20:15:25

Phil Donahue took progressive issues and mainstreamed them to millions through his syndicated daytime show. His short-lived MSNBC primetime show was canceled in 2003 because—as the leaked internal memo said—he represented “a difficult public face for NBC at a time of war.”
https://fair.org/home/phil-donahue-changed-my-life-and-millions-of-others/
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2024-08-15 22:23:25

In a study of the media discussion around student-led encampments against the assault on Gaza, FAIR found no student protesters (or students) on the Sunday talkshows, two student protesters out of 79 guests on four daily news shows, and one op-ed written by a student protester out of 51 opinion pieces on the encampment in four leading newspapers.
https://fair.org/home/students-left-out-of-discussions-about-student-gaza-protests/
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2024-07-26 21:20:05

It’s a topsy-turvy world in which the Black female candidate, who has received so many racist and sexist attacks in the past week that even Republican Party leaders have asked fellow members to tone it down, is admonished by the New York Times to be tolerant and respectful.
https://fair.org/home/nyts-predictable-advice-for-kamala-harris-go-right/
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2024-07-16 21:48:23

There’s a crucial difference between criticizing Trump and his allies for their anti-democratic positions and actions—which is what the Democrats and the left have done—and actually threatening and calling for violence, as the right has been doing.
https://fair.org/home/trumps-shooting-should-not-silence-warnings-about-his-threat-to-democracy/
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2024-07-12 19:02:49

One might be forgiven for assuming that US news media editors would pounce on the fact that the most powerful institution in the US promulgated anti-vax material on social media over the course of a year.
https://fair.org/home/us-media-coverage-of-anti-vax-disinformation-quietly-stops-at-the-pentagon/
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2024-06-26 18:01:27

When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face each other on Thursday for the first scheduled debate of the 2024 presidential election, CNN will be entirely in charge. If history is any guide, things will not go well for democracy.
https://fair.org/home/cnns-debate-plan-makes-democracy-the-likely-loser/

2024-06-25 00:00:31

Prominent institutions that are meant to be pillars of openness and discourse in a free society are perverting themselves in order not to offend donors, government officials and sycophantic newspaper columnists. The victims of this kind of censorship are Jews and non-Jews alike.
https://fair.org/home/censorship-at-a-jewish-school-part-of-a-crisis-for-free-expression/

2024-06-12 18:58:34

Many Democratic primary voters went to the polls without knowing that a leading candidate for Maryland’s safely blue 3rd Congressional District was backed by right-wing billionaires via AIPAC’s super PAC.
https://fair.org/home/a-maryland-house-race-shows-how-not-to-cover-aipac/

2024-04-11 21:34:00

Musk isn’t simply displaying hypocrisy when he pretends to fight for free speech in Brazil while Twitter censors speech when it comes to India and Turkey. If anything, he is being consistent in his quest to use his corporate wealth to alter the political landscape against liberal democracy and toward a dark, despotic future.
https://fair.org/home/musk-is-consistent-in-his-opposition-to-internet-democracy/

2024-03-21 21:29:28

The #NYTimes failed at the basic task of evaluating arguments, reducing the grave charge of genocide to an unresolvable he said/she said back-and-forth.
https://fair.org/home/establishment-papers-fell-short-in-coverage-of-genocide-charges/

2024-03-05 19:06:16

‘What in the Slaughter of Palestinians Is So Important to the US?’
"There's a sense of frustration that everything they're doing to try to compel the US to take a more balanced approach is failing."
https://fair.org/home/what-in-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-is-so-important-to-the-us/
#IsraelPalestine #JoeBiden
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2024-02-23 23:47:56

Shielding US Public From Israeli Reports of Friendly Fire on October 7
While Hamas-led attackers were responsible for many civilian deaths, Israeli reports indicate the IDF killed civilians in multiple cases.
https://fair.org/home/shielding-us-public-from-israeli-reports-of-friendly-fire-on-october-7/
#Alternative #IsraelPalestine #WarMilitary #WashingtonPost
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2024-02-23 17:02:59

Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
This week on CounterSpin: International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber told Electronic Intifada recently that the International Court of Justice hearings on the legality of Israel’s 56-year occupation of Palestinian land are
the largest case in history—more than 50 countries are taking part in this, and the US is virt
https://fair.org/home/gregory-shupak-and-trita-parsi-on-gaza-assault/
#IsraelPalestine #JoeBiden #Mideast

2024-02-16 23:18:52

“In a 2002 report completed by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), researchers found that during the Second Intifada the word 'retaliation' was used 79% of the time to describe Israeli violence against Palestinians in American news outlets. Meanwhile, Palestinian violence was characterized as 'retaliation' only 9% of the time....
"'Retaliation' empowers some in their violence while reprimanding others."
https://time.com/6695499/palestine-power-of-language-essay/

2024-02-14 17:02:11

Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things
The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.
https://fair.org/home/media-that-benefit-from-inequality-prefer-to-talk-about-other-things/
#CorporateOwnership #Economy #Inequality
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2024-02-09 21:36:38

At Northwestern U, Distributing a Parody Paper Gets You Threatened With Prison
An exercise in culture jamming got two Northwestern students brought up on a charge that could have landed them in prison for a year.
https://fair.org/home/at-northwestern-u-distributing-a-parody-paper-gets-you-threatened-with-prison/
#Chicago #Education #FirstAmendment #IsraelPalestine
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2024-02-05 16:54:39

Many US citizens see immigration as a positive good. For immigrants, of course, immigration is often a matter of life and death. But US corporate media treat more people crossing the border as a bad thing in itself--that's what a "border crisis" is.
See @npub1r58…zqsq:
https://fair.org/home/for-media-border-crisis-means-migrants-coming-not-migrants-dying/

2024-01-31 23:28:58

‘We Know What Keeps Us Safe: People Need Care and Not Punishment’
"What invest/divest demands is the investing in mental health support, the investing in first responders who actually know what to do in a crisis,"
https://fair.org/home/we-know-what-keeps-us-safe-people-need-care-and-not-punishment/
#BlackLivesMatter #CrimePunishment #Police
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2024-01-29 22:50:44

AP and the #WashingtonPost haven’t completely ignored the story—although the #NYTimes, as of this writing, has more or less looked the other way. But as the right celebrates Greg Abbott’s defiance and legal scholars worry about a constitutional crisis, the two big papers and the major wire service have clearly underplayed the standoff’s significance.
https://fair.org/home/the-real-border-crisis-texas-vs-the-constitution/

2024-01-26 16:11:42

"More than 50 journalists at the New York Daily News went on a 24-hour walkout Thursday, protesting cuts to overtime and slow bargaining talks with the paper’s owner, the hedge fund Alden Global Capital."
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/01/25/daily-news-reporters-walk-out/

2023-12-21 21:07:50

"Human Rights Watch publicly solicited cases of any type of online censorship and of any type of viewpoints related to #Israel and #Palestine. Of the 1,050 cases reviewed for this report, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine that was censored or otherwise unduly suppressed, while one case involved removal of content in support of Israel."
https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and

2023-12-19 20:06:37

"Like the destruction of art and archives, the killing of journalists is an assault on memory, truth and #Palestinian culture. The tacit blank check given to #Israel to eliminate civilian targets, including journalists it doesn’t like, puts anyone covering the region in danger."
-- @npub1f59…hw6q
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/18/israel-gaza-war-journalist-killings/

2023-12-14 17:11:42

"If these organizations that claim to worry about #antisemitism really did, then they would stop defending the Israeli government, and protecting it from being held accountable for bombing hospitals, and instead allow us all to focus on what we need to do to dismantle white supremacy, and the antisemitism that white supremacy uses."
--Sonya Meyerson-Knox on #CounterSpin
https://fair.org/home/none-of-us-are-free-unless-all-of-us-are-free-is-not-just-a-slogan/

2023-11-17 19:22:31

For Cable News, a Palestinian Life Is Not the Same as an Israeli Life
Cable news coverage of victims, war crimes and context show a double standard when it comes to US allies versus official US enemies.
https://fair.org/home/for-cable-news-a-palestinian-life-is-not-the-same-as-an-israeli-life/
#CNN #FoxNews #IsraelPalestine #MSNBC #WarAndMilitary
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2023-10-19 15:53:27

According to CPJ, as many journalists were killed in the first 11 days of the Gaza crisis as in the first 20 months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
https://fair.org/home/israeli-attacks-on-journalists-stifle-reporting-on-gaza-horrors/

2023-10-17 20:08:11

NYT Ignores Dissent to Convey Image of Jewish Unanimity
Readers would get the impression that a monolithic Jewish community in the US's most Jewish city sat in self-imposed collective silence.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-ignores-dissent-to-convey-image-of-jewish-unanimity/
#IsraelPalestine #NewYorkCity #NewYorkTimes #Protest
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2023-10-05 20:14:41

Why Are Michael Lewis—and 60 Minutes—Hyping SBF?
Acclaimed business writer Michael Lewis took to CBS’s 60 Minutes to tell the world that Sam Bankman-Fried was simply misunderstood.
https://fair.org/home/why-are-michael-lewis-and-60-minutes-hyping-sbf/
#60Minutes #CBS #CrimePunishment #Finance

2023-09-29 20:55:11

‘These Are Demands for the Whole Working Class’
"The whole thing is designed to make you think anytime workers take action, they're the ones at fault. They're the ones causing trouble."
https://fair.org/home/these-are-demands-for-the-whole-working-class/
#Economy #Labor #Transportation
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2023-09-28 19:45:37

Both Opposition to and Support for Ukraine Aid May Be Less Than Polls Show
Polls wildly overstate how engaged Americans are on the Ukraine issue--overstating opposition, as well as support.
https://fair.org/home/both-opposition-to-and-support-for-ukraine-aid-may-be-less-than-polls-show/
#Polling #Ukraine
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2023-09-26 15:02:10

NPR Report on Depleted Uranium Shells for Ukraine Was a One-Source Dud
One-source stories on a controversial story, where there is a long-running dispute about the use of DU weapons, are lazy journalism.
https://fair.org/home/npr-report-on-depleted-uranium-shells-for-ukraine-was-a-one-source-dud/
#Environment #NPR #Ukraine
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2023-09-15 15:34:51

Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims.
https://fair.org/home/maha-hilal-on-innocent-until-proven-muslim/
#Islamophobia #September11
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2023-09-11 15:29:13

A roundup of FAIR's coverage of the WTC/Pentagon attacks and their aftermath--"looking back on two decades of media self-censorship, scapegoating and stenography."
https://fair.org/home/september-11s-never-ending-story/

2023-08-01 18:06:03

How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Norman Solomon's book attempts to show how our media institutions came to be so casual about burying the costs of US wars.
https://fair.org/home/how-to-ignore-4-5-million-deaths/
#Books #WarMilitary
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2023-07-13 21:16:33

Media Push Doom and Gloom in Face of Historic Progressive Recovery
In the wake of a historically progressive response to an economic downturn, corporate media have been intently focused on the negative.
https://fair.org/home/media-push-doom-and-gloom-in-face-of-historic-progressive-recovery/
#Economy #inflation #JoeBiden

2023-06-09 15:17:50

Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Justice, Evan Greer on Kids Online Safety Act
What will the legalization, and profitizing, of marijuana mean for the people and communities most harmed by its criminalization?
https://fair.org/home/tauhid-chappell-on-cannabis-justice-evan-greer-on-kids-online-safety-act/
#Marijuana #RaceRacism #SocialMedia #Youth
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2023-04-04 21:07:58

#[0] activist Bill McKibben argued that Donald Trump’s arrest, which dominated headlines the day the Nature study came out, was far less remarkable as news goes. “Him ending up in trouble for tax evasion to cover up an affair with a porn star seems unlikely only in its details,” McKibben wrote, while the Antarctic story was “one of the most important installments in the most important saga of our time, the rapid decline of the planet’s physical health.”
https://fair.org/home/projected-collapse-of-crucial-antarctic-current-met-with-media-silence/
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