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Since the fall of 1986, FAIR has been monitoring corporate media to document bias, government influence and skewed reporting, while championing the efforts of independent journalism.

As Forbes magazine reported, Jared Kushner is now a billionaire, thanks in part to his “knack for raising funds from hig...
10/09/2025

As Forbes magazine reported, Jared Kushner is now a billionaire, thanks in part to his “knack for raising funds from high-profile Middle Eastern backers.” Translated into non-euphemism, Kushner has literally been utilizing US foreign policy as a vehicle for his own personal enrichment.

There are so many conflicts of interest around Jared Kushner that it's hard to avoid covering them--yet journalists do so remarkably well.

Denying an unfolding genocide like the one in Palestine is even more contemptible than denying genocides that happened i...
10/09/2025

Denying an unfolding genocide like the one in Palestine is even more contemptible than denying genocides that happened in the past, because an ongoing genocide can be stopped before even more people in the targeted population are killed, maimed and bereaved. That’s why every genocide denial is at the same time pro-genocide propaganda.

Those who deny the Gaza genocide are intellectually and morally equivalent to Holocaust deniers--yet the Wall Street Journal persists in running such denial.

Is this one-sided apologetics for the MAGA Supreme Court a direct result of CBS‘s takeover by a Trump-boosting billionai...
10/09/2025

Is this one-sided apologetics for the MAGA Supreme Court a direct result of CBS‘s takeover by a Trump-boosting billionaire? It’s hard to say, but you’d be wise to expect more of this sort of propaganda under the ownership of the Ellisons.

A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.

Today, a company can’t own stations reaching more than 39% of US households. This law prevents a company from directly a...
10/08/2025

Today, a company can’t own stations reaching more than 39% of US households. This law prevents a company from directly accessing most American homes via TV—which seems like a reasonable safeguard against, say, an authoritarian putsch.

But this sort of media consolidation is precisely what Trump is aiming for, so long as his friends are in charge, as they increasingly are.

Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trump’s good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.

Transcript of Janine Jackson's interview with incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal on media and power:"I think about ...
10/07/2025

Transcript of Janine Jackson's interview with incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal on media and power:

"I think about telling the stories of a different kind of tribe here in America, a tribe of rebels, a tribe of people who struggle, a tribe of the poor and the oppressed, because those are the stories that rarely get heard and get reported in much of the world."

"You can't talk about media without talking about power, because you know and I know that much media is about sucking up to power."

Trump's statement was a declaration that the idea of free speech is over—despite Trump going on to list “free speech” fi...
10/03/2025

Trump's statement was a declaration that the idea of free speech is over—despite Trump going on to list “free speech” first among “the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died.” Where once you had the right to criticize those who “bring order,” now such reckless rhetoric is punishable as direct support for “terrorism”—a word that under the US legal system authorizes draconian police powers.

After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.

The 1982 conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal for the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner followed a trial marked by pros...
10/03/2025

The 1982 conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal for the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner followed a trial marked by prosecutorial and police misconduct, purported “witness” testimony that was shifting and suborned, discriminatory jury selection, and irresponsible and frankly biased media coverage – which hasn’t changed, over years of court appeals and continued revelations.

It was and continues to be clear that for the powers that be, including in the elite press, it is important not only to keep Mumia Abu-Jamal behind bars, but to keep him quiet.

It hasn’t worked. Despite more than four decades in prison, our guest has not ceased to speak up and speak out, on a range of concerns well beyond his own story, with the support of advocates around the world.

Mumia Abu-Jamal's 1982 conviction exposed flagrant flaws in corporate media’s storytelling around crime and punishment and race and power.

NPR's Planet Money spent the summer School convincing its audience that the most good a state can do is to protect the a...
10/02/2025

NPR's Planet Money spent the summer School convincing its audience that the most good a state can do is to protect the accumulation of private property—and that any alternative is tantamount to theft and a barrier to our collective prosperity.

Summer School sidelines critical perspectives to teach its audience that privatization, austerity and deregulation are pivotal to freedom and prosperity.

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan:"We're really being put in a position to compe...
10/02/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan:

"We're really being put in a position to compete with corporations around water. Farmland is being rezoned for these data centers. So you can't eat AI, you can't drink AI. This is the future that is being built before our eyes. And so media need to report on the reality of what the real cost of data centers is, and not just say communities have questions, but there's more and more data out there about the negative impact of data centers. So that has to be amplified."

"This is because of community pushback, communities that are saying, this is not worth the environmental threat that these data centers pose."

Right-wing media framed a Minneapolis shooter's trans identity as part of an alarming, rising trend. Responsible reporti...
10/01/2025

Right-wing media framed a Minneapolis shooter's trans identity as part of an alarming, rising trend. Responsible reporting would provide the context that, according to the Gun Violence Archive, 0.11% of the known suspects in mass shootings over the past decade were transgender—far less than the trans share of the general public.

Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

Eliminating the CPB could be both a loss and a gain for public media. There’s no sugarcoating the lost journalism jobs, ...
10/01/2025

Eliminating the CPB could be both a loss and a gain for public media. There’s no sugarcoating the lost journalism jobs, station closures and programming cuts. And yet public media will also be freed from the ideological leash that always kept it from serving as the true public watchdog it was meant to be.

  Federal funding for public broadcasting officially ends today, the beginning of the new federal fiscal year. With the Republican-directed rescission of already-allocated funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Project 2025 dream of pulling the plug on PBS and NPR has been realized. ...

In the second Trump era, we need political cartoonists more than ever--but publishers are making them an endangered spec...
09/30/2025

In the second Trump era, we need political cartoonists more than ever--but publishers are making them an endangered species.

In the era of Trump, publishers are, for a variety of reasons, encouraging cartoonists to approach the president on bended knee.

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Since 1986, FAIR has been monitoring corporate media to document bias, government influence and skewed reporting, while championing the efforts of independent journalism.