Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

12/06/2025

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

A male coworker allegedly bludgeoning Amber Czech to death has nothing to tell us, evidently, about broader trends or influences.

12/05/2025

Readers are treated to a photo of a thoughtful-looking Hendrix, wearing a navy suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, with the caption, “William Hendrix, who has not spoken publicly about the group chat until now, said that he was stunned by the intensity of the uproar and the fallout on his life.”

A later photo shows Hendrix gazing out his car window at the Kansas state capitol building, “where he once worked.”

The New York Times' problem isn't that it hasn't probed deeply enough into the far-right psyche; it's that it refuses to stop normalizing it.

12/05/2025

The BBC’s December 3 headline drops us in: “As Lead Changes in Knife-Edge Honduran Election, Will Trump Fail to Get His Way?” What’s going on in the Honduran general elections – and what does it have to do with Trump? And what do we lose when media report other countries’ elections through the lens of US power?

As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the US’s long history of violently intervening in Honduras.

12/04/2025

CounterSpin transcript with Jean Su on COP30: "With the US not there, they can no longer obstruct. And that means that nation states can treat the US as the pariah that it is, and get down some binding frameworks that will, in the end, when the US comes back, bind the US to more ambitious targets, and more ambitious pathways to phasing out fossil fuels."

"It's the people, it's the citizenry of the world who are going toe to toe with the handful of politicians who are driving disastrous decisions for us."

12/02/2025

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12/01/2025

For the Washington Post, lacking expertise on transgender care makes you more credible, because you're "more neutral."

The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."

11/28/2025

News outlets have continued to push the idea that the WNBA is not profitable, exclusively relying on anonymous sources, without ever referencing any corroborating financial documents.

Too many news reports have catered to owners' interests when reporting on the negotiations between the players' union and the league.

11/28/2025

The decision coming out of COP30, the climate conference held this year in Belem in northern Brazil, didn't mention the words "fossil fuels," much less demand a necessary reduction in their use. AP drily notes that this “fell far short of many delegates' expectations.” But the general vibe seems to be that no one actually expected an agreement that would actually keep warming to the agreed upon 1.5 degrees Celsius, especially not at a gathering swarming with fossil fuel lobbyists, and the institutional acceptance, if you will, of the industry’s role in shaping the policy that seeks to dislodge them.

AP also notes that “in the end, the talks were stymied by the widening gulf between the world's biggest emitters and the poorest, most vulnerable countries, which are pleading for a more ambitious collective response to climate change.” To which we might also respond: You don’t say.

What’s the difference between acknowledging conflicts that are driving predictable and predicted death and destruction, and using the power of information to challenge and change them?

And what else happened at COP30? Were there, are there, other stories that include different voices, and that start where so much corporate coverage ends?

Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.

11/26/2025

After 300 overwhelmingly Black women, men and children were murdered in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa World ran the headline "Two Whites Dead in Race Riot"--and an editorial that asserted that "any persons who seek to put half the blame on the white people are wrong."

The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.

11/26/2025

Jeffrey Epstein and his associates are believed to have abused hundreds of women and girls on Little Saint James, a private island Epstein owned from 1998 until his death in 2019. But in the New York Times’ telling, it’s not the girls on Epstein’s island but rather President Donald Trump—an Epstein associate many suspect of having participated in the alleged abuse—who is being “held captive” by a “news cycle he can’t avoid or defeat.”

In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.

11/26/2025

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11/25/2025

"What happened with the government shutdown was heartbreaking, but I think it really did elevate how important SNAP is. And I do think, across the country, people have a better understanding of how many people are vulnerable to hunger and poverty, and how important the federal response is."

"The problem isn't that we have 42 million people on SNAP. The problem is that we have 42 million people who live in poverty."