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FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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‘Someone Was Out There Deliberately Manufacturing Evidence’
“The idea that they were invading Iraq based on faulty intelligence has it exactly backwards. They had already decided they wanted to invade Iraq. So the intelligence was then used to justify a pre-existing policy.”
‘Where There Are More Guns, There Are More Gun Deaths’
“Regurgitating claims that the Second Amendment somehow impedes us from doing anything about this problem is a real hindrance, I think, to the kind of conversations we have publicly about this issue.”
Need a Quote From an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do Like the New York Times and Make It Up
The New York Times produces a new installment in its ongoing project of demonizing China.
The Judicial Right Is Coming After Freedom of the Press
A dissenting opinion from the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has breathed new legal life into the prospect of making it easier for political and corporate leaders to use defamation suits to stifle the press.
Atlanta Murders Reporting Relied on Law Enforcement Narratives
At local and national levels, the initial media response focused primarily on the gunman’s story and police statements.
Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Robert Dreyfuss on Iraq War
Many are simply fed up with the idea that change is too hard. Will media conversation shift to keep up with them?
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CounterSpin, the weekly radio show of FAIR, provides a critical exposé of the corporate news. Produced and hosted by Janine Jackson it is heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations. The current show, back archives and transcripts are available online.
Two genres of anti-Asian paranoia converging in COVID times: (1) the Asian body as contagion, as invoked by 19th century anti-immigrant laws to "protect" the white republic, and (2) the Asian as communist infiltrator, as mobilized during Cold War "brainwashing" hysteria
This piece I wrote in 2018 when I was just a wee intern compliments this point. The way corporate media discusses shootings is depraved & needs to stop. https://fair.org/home/mental-illness-serves-as-easy-scapegoat-in-mass-murder-accounts/
A really critical read. Mainstream media focused on the shooter, his "sex addiction" and his "bad day" and cops' statements rather than the victims or community members. #AtlantaShootings #MediaCriticism #AsiansAreHuman
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https://fair.org/home/atlanta-murders-reporting-relied-on-law-enforcement-narratives/
FAIR Studies
Leading Papers Talked Up Establishment’s Senate Candidates
Democrats celebrated dual Georgia Senate race victories this week, which gives them, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaker vote, a bare majority in the Senate. But not all Democrats are created equal, and the one-vote margin makes the politics of each individual in that majority more consequential. In 2020, several states witnessed competitive Democratic […]
Study of 2020 Debates Finds New Topics but Familiar Framing
A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates.
Young Voices Largely Missing in Election Coverage
Despite the increase of young people planning to vote, corporate media have largely forgotten about them in the weeks leading up to the election.
Activist Voices Missing From Corporate Coverage of Uprisings
Establishment media overwhelmingly turned to columnists, pundits and government officials for interpretation of the uprisings—rather than to the activists facing tear gas on the frontlines.
Chinese ‘Imperialism’ in Hong Kong Concerns US Media; Puerto Rican, Palestinian Colonies, Not So Much
While one cannot describe China’s national security law as an act of “colonialism” or “imperialism,” since Hong Kong is part of China, FAIR conducted a study comparing media coverage of Hong Kong’s national security law and actual colonialism by the US in Puerto Rico, and by its ally Israel in Palestine.
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