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

Last Notes

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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2024-07-26 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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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

2023-09-26 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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2023-04-04 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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