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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.

The presents ’s influence on the new administration as something “Democrats…have suggested,” and the role of Trump’s...
25/01/2025

The presents ’s influence on the new administration as something “Democrats…have suggested,” and the role of Trump’s billionaire allies as something Democrats “plan to invoke” in the fight over tax cuts.

We would have work enough without news media dedicating themselves to putting up a rhetorical scrim between us and the things we need to understand and resist.

In 19 articles on the Gaza ceasefire in leading US papers, only one made reference to Israeli military losses in Gaza. N...
24/01/2025

In 19 articles on the Gaza ceasefire in leading US papers, only one made reference to Israeli military losses in Gaza. None mentioned the economic problems Israel has been having due to the war. None mentioned the impact of attacks on Israel in solidarity with Gaza by Hezbollah and Ansar Allah.

An accounting of the ceasefire is incomplete if it excludes how anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist forces in the Middle East thwarted US/Israeli designs.

If major news media, day in and day out, reported immigration not through politicians trying to outdo one another with h...
24/01/2025

If major news media, day in and day out, reported immigration not through politicians trying to outdo one another with hysterical claims and perverse stunts like buses out of town, not through pundits whose ignorance of history and economics is matched only by their indifference to human rights, but through the voices of immigrants and their communities and advocates, would we be where we are today?

Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

In a sign of the dangers that lie ahead for media, particularly public media, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gav...
24/01/2025

In a sign of the dangers that lie ahead for media, particularly public media, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gave Musk a pass for his racist salute, and instead took aim at PBS for posting video of it.

There’s something about the start of a Trump presidency that makes grown men do strange things, like heiling Hi**er.

Even if Trump simply chooses not to enforce the ban against TikTok, the law remains on the books, and the Supreme Court ...
23/01/2025

Even if Trump simply chooses not to enforce the ban against TikTok, the law remains on the books, and the Supreme Court has provided politicians with judicial justification that free speech concerns can be subverted if you say the words “national security” and “foreign adversary” enough.

This could very well be merely a delay in a ban, rather than long-term preservation of the TikTok platform.

Trying to “expand the Post audience among conservatives,” while still paying lip service to “great journalism,” is not l...
22/01/2025

Trying to “expand the Post audience among conservatives,” while still paying lip service to “great journalism,” is not likely to solve the Washington Post‘s problems. As CNN‘s former CEO Chris Licht discovered, you can’t do good journalism while trying to appeal to both sides in the context of an increasingly radical right, because that side demands acceptance of lies and conspiracy theories that are incompatible with actual journalism.

The new direction sounds like the Foxification of the Washington Post, a move away from any attempt to hold the powerful to account and toward inexpensive clickbait punditry.

Exhaustion and burnout are real phenomena that pose a significant challenge to political movements. But articles that fo...
17/01/2025

Exhaustion and burnout are real phenomena that pose a significant challenge to political movements. But articles that focus on feelings of burnout, and exclude or downplay questions of changes in strategy amid shifting conditions, often have the effect—and occasionally the goal—of making everyday people seem and feel less powerful than they are.

Articles that focus on feelings of burnout, often have the effect of making everyday people seem and feel less powerful than they are.

People are confronting the fossil fuel companies, and their political enablers, for the obvious role that fossil fuels p...
17/01/2025

People are confronting the fossil fuel companies, and their political enablers, for the obvious role that fossil fuels play in climate disruption, and that climate disruption plays in extreme weather events. Many are also now calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur. Would you be surprised to hear that these powerful industries– fossil fuels and insurers – are intertwined? We talked about it last year with writer and historian Derek Seidman.

Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Dean Baker on China trade policy: "The way Trump talks about it, he makes it ...
16/01/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Dean Baker on China trade policy: "The way Trump talks about it, he makes it sound like we're charging Canada or Mexico or China, he's imposing his tariff on, we're charging them this money, when what we're actually doing is, we're charging ourselves the money."

"Trump is saying he doesn't care about whatever agreements we have, including the ones he signed."

Right-wing talking points about the LA fires serve several purposes. They bury the idea that climate change, driven by f...
16/01/2025

Right-wing talking points about the LA fires serve several purposes. They bury the idea that climate change, driven by fossil fuels and out-of-control growth, has anything to do with the rise in extreme weather. They pin the blame on Democrats: LA is a blue city in a blue state. And they continue the racist and sexist drumbeat that all of society’s ills can be pinned on the advancement of women and minorities.

Coverage of the LA fires demonstrates that in the Murdoch fantasyland, "wokeness" can be used to blame literally anything.

In two instances in the past couple of weeks, the Washington Post has acknowledged criticisms made by FAIR activists and...
15/01/2025

In two instances in the past couple of weeks, the Washington Post has acknowledged criticisms made by FAIR activists and others.

Washington Post editors may not be backing down, but they are hearing you.

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Laura Flanders on independent media and the year ahead:"...
15/01/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Laura Flanders on independent media and the year ahead:

" I find a huge difference in the way in which communities of color and journalists of color and women journalists are covering solutions, and covering the problems of our world through a solutions lens, because the urgency for us is so real. We're on the front lines. It's not as much about likes and clicks and algorithms, as much as it is about actually solving the problem."

"It's not as much about likes and clicks and algorithms, as much as it is about actually solving the problem."

Three vehicle-based violent attacks, one ascribed to an ISIS supporter and two with far-right suspects, got two very dif...
10/01/2025

Three vehicle-based violent attacks, one ascribed to an ISIS supporter and two with far-right suspects, got two very different modes of coverage.

Right-wing political violence remains a threat that requires attention. Coverage of recent vehicle attacks illustrates that corporate media's instinct is to look away.

The New York Times solemnly reported China’s increased ownership of global ports, in a story making obvious that the fac...
10/01/2025

The New York Times solemnly reported China’s increased ownership of global ports, in a story making obvious that the fact that Chinese companies are in charge of shipping ports is inherently scary – what might they do? – in a way that the US having 750 military bases around the world never is.

The message isn’t that no one country should have that much power; it’s that no country *except the US* should have that much power. That assumption suffuses corporate news reporting; and China threatens it. So whatever China does or doesn’t do, look for that lens to color any news you get.

How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

The “both sides” framing allows Israel to muddy the waters and justify its presence in southern Lebanon. Despite overwhe...
09/01/2025

The “both sides” framing allows Israel to muddy the waters and justify its presence in southern Lebanon. Despite overwhelming Israeli violations of the ceasefire, the pro-Israel media bias obscures who is responsible for continued fighting.

Despite the overwhelming number of Israeli attacks in the post-ceasefire period, news audiences have heard that a “tense ceasefire holds.”

Editorial cartoonists offer their own takes on media moguls' toadying to Donald Trump, in solidarity with Ann Telnaes, w...
09/01/2025

Editorial cartoonists offer their own takes on media moguls' toadying to Donald Trump, in solidarity with Ann Telnaes, who resigned from the Washington Post after her satirizing of Jeff Bezos was spiked.

Cartoonists Unite for Ann Telnaes and the First Amendment

The “Ivy League” angle seeks to turn the policy discussion from one about the broken healthcare system to one about the ...
08/01/2025

The “Ivy League” angle seeks to turn the policy discussion from one about the broken healthcare system to one about the education system. It promotes the right-wing narrative that academia is full of Marxist professors who indoctrinate vulnerable youngsters with revolutionary ideas, that Mangione is responding not to the objective reality about America’s healthcare crisis but to rhetoric that’s been wrongly instilled in him and many others—and that, therefore, the lesson of this shooting is that the US education system must be reformed by the incoming Trump administration.

Coding Luigi Mangione as an Ivy Leaguer paints him as an out-of-touch rich kid rather than an anti-establishment renegade.

This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations that have helped us clarify the events ...
08/01/2025

This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us, in part, by showing how elite news media are clouding them. It’s not to say big media always get the facts wrong, but that what facts they point us toward day after day, whose interpretation of those facts they suggest we credit, what responses we’re told are worth pursuing—all of that serves media’s corporate owners and sponsors, at the expense of the rest of our lives and our futures.

"Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward."

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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.