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"The big bombshell related to Pinochet came in 1998, when he ...

2026-10-06T19:20:31Z

"The big bombshell related to Pinochet came in 1998, when he was in London and was arrested on an order from a Spanish judge. And this just shook things up so much. It struck fear in the hearts of dictators around the world. Even Henry Kissinger reportedly canceled a trip to Brazil because he was afraid of being Pinocheted. That was the verb that came up."

https://fair.org/home/pinochet-carried-out-terrorism-less-than-two-miles-from-the-white-house/

“Making it as difficult as possible for the agency to operate ...

2026-08-28T22:34:37Z

“Making it as difficult as possible for the agency to operate in their communities” is a mistake on the part of anti-ICE activists, the Atlantic argues.

https://fair.org/home/abolish-ice-perish-the-thought-says-press/

In the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, David ...

2026-08-12T19:02:53Z

In the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, David Crowley, the candidate backed by the party establishment, outspent socialist insurgent Francesca Hong by 8-to-1—and eked out a 0.4 percentage point victory. That’s a “Stunning Victory,” according to USA Today—or a “Stunning Loss” for Hong that “Shows the Limits of the Left,” in the New York Times’ telling.

https://fair.org/home/when-is-a-victory-stunning-when-it-shows-the-limits-of-the-left/

The US began to impose a blockade on Cuba in 1960 to “decrease ...

2026-08-06T21:42:12Z

The US began to impose a blockade on Cuba in 1960 to “decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Rather than recognize such factors in Cuban suffering, many voices in the corporate media have embraced the political and economic equivalent of flat Earthism.

https://fair.org/home/press-opinion-treats-us-devastation-of-cuba-as-reason-for-more-devastation/

60 Minutes knew what they were getting when they hired Ross ...

2026-07-31T21:42:42Z

60 Minutes knew what they were getting when they hired Ross Douthat away from the New York Times: someone who could be counted on to distort reality to support a right-wing worldview.

https://fair.org/home/the-rigor-and-empathy-ross-douthat-will-bring-to-60-minutes/

"He's berating all of the NATO forces for not having ...

2026-07-17T20:49:17Z

"He's berating all of the NATO forces for not having supported this horrific war that the US and Israel launched against Iran, as if the NATO charter requires every member of NATO to join every crazy illegal war that any member might start. What it actually calls for, Article 5, the famous Article 5 that says an attack on one is an attack on all, starts with 'an attack on one of us.' It doesn't start with 'any war that any member of NATO might choose to start.'”

https://fair.org/home/this-war-was-illegal-period-full-stop/

Jeff Bezos laid off nearly half the Washington Post newsroom, ...

2026-07-09T18:18:56Z

Jeff Bezos laid off nearly half the Washington Post newsroom, claiming he was doing this for the long-term viability of the paper. To be relevant, the Post has to be a “profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet,” Bezos CNBC.

Privately, however, Bezos told Trump that Post employees “are terrible…. They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.”

https://fair.org/home/one-year-into-the-clampdown-wapo-opinion-cheers-for-maga-billionaires-and-ai/

"The thing that worries me is this comes after a lot of the ...

2026-07-07T22:11:48Z

"The thing that worries me is this comes after a lot of the conversation that Secretary RFK Jr. has had about creating camps and work farms that, I’m not being over-dramatic in saying these sound similar to the 'work camps' and concentration camps that happened in Nazi Germany. And the irony is that Nazi Germany got a lot of its eugenic policy ideas from the United States."

https://fair.org/home/disability-impacts-every-policy-we-create-and-every-policy-impacts-disabled-people/

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2026-07-07T15:20:29Z

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Visit fair.org/internship-program to learn more & apply!

The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait scorns Twitch streamer Hasan ...

2026-06-15T22:33:49Z

The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait scorns Twitch streamer Hasan Piker for “liken[ing] the leaders of Hezbollah, a terrorist arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to Nelson Mandela”—who headed the ANC’s military wing, which was on the United States’ “terrorism” watch list from 1988 until 2008.

https://fair.org/home/medias-hasan-piker-meltdown-is-about-silencing-dissent/

Murderous fantasies about the US imposing total domination over ...

2026-04-24T21:28:52Z

Murderous fantasies about the US imposing total domination over Iran are perhaps a symptom of the US being unable to do so in reality.

https://fair.org/home/for-us-commentators-on-iran-mass-murder-is-magic/

In so many ways, big media failed to provide accurate information ...

2026-04-23T21:27:18Z

In so many ways, big media failed to provide accurate information about Israel’s bombing attacks and their consequences on the people in Gaza. They improvised a language of confusion, denial and justification.

https://fair.org/home/genocide-doesnt-happen-without-language-to-incite-it/

The New York Times ran a detailed account of how Trump and ...

2026-04-17T20:22:07Z

The New York Times ran a detailed account of how Trump and Netanyahu launched the war on Iran. But it left out the paper's own role in paving the way for war--with what it wrote and when it kept silent.

https://fair.org/home/nyts-investigation-of-how-trumps-war-on-iran-started-leaves-out-the-papers-own-silence/

The Wall Street Journal, one of the few major US outlets to cover ...

2026-04-16T20:41:39Z

The Wall Street Journal, one of the few major US outlets to cover the Israeli attack on the Tehran synagogue, referred in a headline to Israel's "Damage to Iran Synagogue"--which resembles the "damage" Al Qaeda did to the World Trade Center towers.

https://fair.org/home/israel-destroys-a-synagogue-us-media-yawn/

If the New York Times is unable (or unwilling) to send its own ...

2026-03-30T22:27:07Z

If the New York Times is unable (or unwilling) to send its own reporters to Iran, it can hire local Iranian reporters. Instead, it is choosing not to report on the ground in Iran, and then coming up with unpersuasive excuses to cover its tracks.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-covers-iran-war-with-no-reporters-in-iran/

With some exceptions, elite media outlets have shown far more ...

2026-02-24T23:15:11Z

With some exceptions, elite media outlets have shown far more interest in the fates of the high-profile men who surrounded Epstein than in the women and girls who were abused.

https://fair.org/home/media-focus-on-epsteins-powerful-friends-erases-their-victims/

As the powers that be find it harder to forcefeed their narrative ...

2026-01-30T17:07:28Z

As the powers that be find it harder to forcefeed their narrative over your lying eyes and questioning minds, the game shifts--to their seeking to use their power to silence anyone who might say anything different than what they say. Not by proving them wrong, because they aren’t wrong, but by shutting them up.

https://fair.org/home/jenna-ruddock-on-dhs-domestic-surveillance/

The Washington Post endorses Trump's call for a 50% increase ...

2026-01-28T22:16:49Z

The Washington Post endorses Trump's call for a 50% increase in the military budget, to $1.5 trillion. And it has to happen now, before Democrats get back into power, because they'll want more social spending as well--"which the nation cannot afford."

https://fair.org/home/wapo-so-worried-about-deficit-it-wants-to-increase-pentagon-budget-by-half/

As FAIR and many others have pointed out, Israel did not cease ...

2026-01-28T17:21:03Z

As FAIR and many others have pointed out, Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. But Gaza is receiving less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement.

https://fair.org/home/after-trump-declared-gaza-war-over-media-lost-interest/

The New York Times argues that China’s “rising hostility to ...

2026-01-23T23:22:54Z

The New York Times argues that China’s “rising hostility to neighbors and especially its accelerating military buildup show the urgent need for credible deterrence.”

It’s not China, though, that declares it has the right to replace the leaders of any country in its hemisphere it disapproves of.

https://fair.org/home/as-trump-uses-military-to-threaten-democracy-nyt-declares-military-needs-more-resources/

It’s “nauseating and irresponsible to have our owner remain ...

2026-01-21T22:51:19Z

It’s “nauseating and irresponsible to have our owner remain silent given this unprecedented event,” a Washington Post reporter said after a colleague's electronic devices were seized by the FBI.

https://fair.org/home/all-bezos-groveling-didnt-stop-trumps-fbi-from-raiding-a-wapo-reporters-home/

In 2010, FAIR's Jim @nprofile…dmas wrote that any attempt ...

2026-01-16T23:03:57Z

In 2010, FAIR's Jim nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq22fj0qhecqlxg4mhal8ghfpslv8sf7eynppyj54ww0mdqtxv3emqqtdmas (nprofile…dmas) wrote that any attempt to expel 11 million unauthorized immigrants "would involve massive internment camps and forced transport reminiscent of Balkan ethnic cleansing, if not even grimmer historical precedents."

https://fair.org/home/i-wish-id-been-wrong-about-what-control-of-the-border-would-look-like/

You might find dry, data-based acknowledgement that workers’ ...

2025-12-19T18:48:24Z

You might find dry, data-based acknowledgement that workers’ wages haven’t kept up with productivity, or with inflation–maybe there’s even a graph. But elite media show no substantive, sustained interest in asking what forces can be brought to bear against corporate power, and its whims and prejudices. Where power is, who has it, how it’s used: That’s the intentional emptiness at the center of corporate media’s storytelling–and it’s where independent reporters start.

https://fair.org/home/derek-seidman-on-starbucks-strike-mitch-jones-on-ai-vs-environment/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover ...

2025-12-05T23:13:59Z

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.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

Corporate media are repeating the problems of the run-up to the ...

2025-11-19T22:20:30Z

Corporate media are repeating the problems of the run-up to the Iraq War by uncritically amplifying spurious justifications for military assault against Venezuela.

https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-parrot-dubious-drug-claims-that-justify-war-on-venezuela/

There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the ...

2025-11-14T23:21:38Z

There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?

https://fair.org/home/emails-reveal-epsteins-ties-to-mossad-but-corporate-media-looked-away/

"It's flagrantly illegal, under both domestic and ...

2025-10-28T21:10:32Z

"It's flagrantly illegal, under both domestic and international law, to summarily kill civilians who are suspected of committing crimes. And for this reason, members of Congress from across the political spectrum, former government officials who served in presidential administrations of both parties, international bodies and numerous civil society organizations have all agreed that these strikes constitute murder, pure and simple. "

https://fair.org/home/the-governments-own-disclosures-demonstrate-these-strikes-are-not-lawful/

The #NYTimes sees its role as establishing the ideological ...

2025-10-25T15:37:28Z

The #NYTimes sees its role as establishing the ideological boundaries of the Democratic Party, most notably by drawing the line in the sand on the left that the Democrats must not cross.

https://fair.org/home/as-millions-march-against-fascism-nyt-warns-against-progressives/

As Forbes magazine reported, Jared Kushner is now a billionaire, ...

2025-10-09T22:32:54Z

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.

https://fair.org/home/jared-kushner-out-of-the-spotlight-but-not-out-of-mideast-politics-or-out-of-the-money/

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Jai Dulani and ...

2025-10-02T15:47:56Z

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

"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."

https://fair.org/home/media-need-to-report-on-the-real-cost-of-data-centers/

In the second Trump era, we need political cartoonists more than ...

2025-09-30T22:00:28Z

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

https://fair.org/home/us-cartooning-tradition-in-peril-in-trumps-first-year/

Apparently a more accurate headline—like ”Study Finds No Sign ...

2025-06-19T16:00:51Z

Apparently a more accurate headline—like ”Study Finds No Sign Chernobyl’s Dogs Are Radioactive Mutants”—wouldn’t have gotten as many clicks.

https://fair.org/home/i-believe-in-science-but-not-necessarily-science-journalism/

The lengthy obituaries in the most prominent US newspapers ...

2025-04-23T21:42:38Z

The lengthy obituaries in the most prominent US newspapers ignored Pope Francis' advocacy for Palestinian rights. By contrast, it was not hard to find references to Gaza in Francis’ obituaries in major non-US English-language outlets.

https://fair.org/home/pope-francis-obits-omit-focus-on-palestine/

The Trump administration and its allies have flatly declared that ...

2025-04-16T20:02:02Z

The Trump administration and its allies have flatly declared that they believe a judicial check on the executive authority wrongly places constitutional restraints on Trump’s desires. The New York Times goes out on a limb and declares this "a path with an uncertain end."

https://fair.org/home/failing-to-rise-to-the-constitutional-crisis/

#Facebook is blocking the sharing of FAIR's post on media ...

2025-04-12T03:41:55Z

#Facebook is blocking the sharing of FAIR's post on media coverage of Israel's killing of Palestinian rescue workers. "The post may use misleading links or content to trick people to visit, or stay on, a website" is the bogus excuse given.

Here's a link to the post:

https://fair.org/home/media-find-ways-to-minimize-israels-murder-of-paramedics/

A FAIR examination of five major outlets found that coverage of ...

2025-04-04T22:34:03Z

A FAIR examination of five major outlets found that coverage of anti-Trump/pro-democracy protests was minimal, and downplayed the significance of this opposition.

https://fair.org/home/the-resistance-will-not-be-televised/

FAIR board member Robert McChesney was a leading voice and a ...

2025-03-27T14:54:50Z

FAIR board member Robert McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a more democratic society.

https://fair.org/home/robert-w-mcchesney-a-scholar-activist-who-fought-for-media-democracy/

Israel's deliberate killing of a journalist was covered in ...

2025-03-26T21:39:49Z

Israel's deliberate killing of a journalist was covered in leading international papers and independent US outlets—but virtually no establishment US news organizations.

https://fair.org/home/israel-kills-palestinian-journalist-hossam-shabat-as-us-media-look-away/

Israel does not even pretend the assassination was an accident, ...

2025-03-26T21:35:14Z

Israel does not even pretend the assassination was an accident, but rather it attempts to frame Palestinian journalists as terrorists. Indeed, targeting journalists appears to be part of Israel’s efforts—which also include preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza—to prevent documentation of its atrocities.

https://fair.org/home/israel-kills-palestinian-journalist-hossam-shabat-as-us-media-look-away/

The New York Times, Washington Post and Atlantic fanned the ...

2025-03-21T22:48:46Z

The New York Times, Washington Post and Atlantic fanned the flames of the right-wing pearl-clutching at the anti-genocide protests. Their writers might genuinely be aghast at Trump’s aggression toward universities now, but they might want to reflect on what they did to bring us to this point.

https://fair.org/home/elite-media-paved-way-for-trumps-targeting-of-columbia/

A couple months ago, when an LA police officer killed a child in ...

2025-02-21T17:07:29Z

A couple months ago, when an LA police officer killed a child in a department store, the New York Times ran the headline, “Stray Bullet Kills Girl as Officers Fire at Suspect in Los Angeles Store.”

We see that obscuring of agency and undermining of accountability writ larger when crimes are committed by governments favored by corporate media, against populations they don’t care much about.

https://fair.org/home/gregory-shupak-on-palestine-ethnic-cleansing-portia-allen-kyle-on-tax-unfairness/

The capitulation of Apple and Google on "Gulf of America" ...

2025-02-18T22:24:53Z

The capitulation of Apple and Google on "Gulf of America" validates a widespread fear that it isn’t just Elon Musk who is doing Trump’s dirty work to undo democracy, but that the Big Tech community generally has lined up to stay in the good graces of executive power

https://fair.org/home/whats-in-a-gulfs-name-a-test-for-democracy/

There’s been a clear law on the books for over 50 years that ...

2025-01-29T21:01:10Z

There’s been a clear law on the books for over 50 years that expressly prohibits what Trump was attempting here. It should have been an easy call for journalists, then, to answer the basic and central question: "Is it legal?" The Washington Post failed this basic task.

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-when-trump-tried-to-freeze-federal-funds-wapo-saw-not-illegality-but-determination/

In a sign of the dangers that lie ahead for media, particularly ...

2025-01-24T00:15:01Z

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.

https://fair.org/home/musks-nazi-salute-becomes-awkward-gesture-in-exuberant-speech/

Exhaustion and burnout are real phenomena that pose a significant ...

2025-01-17T19:45:33Z

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.

https://fair.org/home/diagnosing-activist-burnout-elite-media-fuel-it/

Fossil fuels play the leading role in the climate disruption that ...

2025-01-17T17:04:11Z

Fossil fuels play the leading role in the climate disruption that leads to extreme weather events. After those events, insurance companies often hinder folks' ability to come out from under when these predictable 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.

https://fair.org/home/derek-seidman-on-insurance-and-climate-2024-ariel-adelman-on-disability-civil-rights-2024/

It’s not that Big Media always get the facts wrong, but that ...

2025-01-08T17:20:28Z

It’s not that 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.

https://fair.org/home/media-institutions-have-played-a-direct-role-in-undermining-democracy/

Gary Webb was subjected to a concerted assault by the corporate ...

2024-12-29T23:55:27Z

Gary Webb was subjected to a concerted assault by the corporate media, most notably the New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times. The media hit job relied heavily on denials from the CIA itself—as in “CIA Chief Denies Crack Conspiracy”—which is kind of like saying that the bear investigated the sticky goo on his paws and determined that he was not the one who got into the honeypot.

https://fair.org/home/20-years-after-his-death-gary-webbs-truth-is-still-dangerous/

It’s not to say big media always get the facts wrong; but that ...

2024-12-27T18:43:06Z

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’ bottom line at the expense of all of our lives and our futures.

https://fair.org/home/the-best-of-counterspin-2024/

The Washington Post demands “new research of maximum possible ...

2024-12-20T16:08:21Z

The Washington Post demands “new research of maximum possible rigor” for gender-affirming care, “overseen by scientists who are not gender medicine practitioners”—much like demanding research about cancer treatment conducted by doctors who aren’t cancer specialists.

https://fair.org/home/press-downplays-danger-of-supreme-court-case-that-threatens-trans-rights-among-others/

Corporate media told us that California raising the minimum wage ...

2024-12-13T23:14:51Z

Corporate media told us that California raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hour would devastate the industry. Now we have actual data about the impact of California’s law.

https://fair.org/home/corporate-fearmongering-over-fast-food-wage-hike-aged-like-cold-french-fries/

The term “genocide” is ostracized by the corporate media ...

2024-12-12T23:34:56Z

The term “genocide” is ostracized by the corporate media world because it violates the political line of the United States, the global superpower that is currently enabling Israel’s genocidal behavior—to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in aid and weaponry. And the media’s refusal to call a spade a spade has produced all manner of linguistic gymnastics.

https://fair.org/home/what-we-talk-about-when-we-dont-talk-about-genocide/

It’s fine to defend vigilantes when they kill unarmed Black ...

2024-12-11T23:20:25Z

It’s fine to defend vigilantes when they kill unarmed Black people or anti-racist activists, but when a CEO’s life is taken, we must solemnly stay silent on the reasons why such a person might be targeted or why bystanders might not be crying.

https://fair.org/home/murdoch-outlets-and-bezos-wapo-demand-more-sympathy-for-health-insurance-execs/

FAIR now has many followers on Mastodon on BlueSky--3.5k on each. ...

2024-12-06T16:48:38Z

FAIR now has many followers on Mastodon on BlueSky--3.5k on each. We're going to be posting to both sites for the foreseeable future; Mastodon is the kind of decentralized, nonprofit platform FAIR has always called for, but BlueSky is the Twitter replacement the world desperately needs.

A story on the hazards of gas cooking disappeared without ...

2024-12-03T22:59:51Z

A story on the hazards of gas cooking disappeared without explanation from the website of DC CBS affiliate WUSA. Then it reappeared six days later--with the local gas company's fingerprints all over it.

https://fair.org/home/dc-station-rewrites-gas-expose-after-a-word-from-its-sponsor/

DC TV station WUSA9 (owned by TEGNA, formerly Gannett) pulls ...

2024-11-27T22:07:42Z

DC TV station WUSA9 (owned by TEGNA, formerly Gannett) pulls story on the dangers of gas stoves, apparently at the behest of sponsor Washington Gas.

https://heated.world/p/dc-news-station-quietly-scrubs-stories?

Buried deep within their reports, some outlets revealed a more ...

2024-11-15T23:00:36Z

Buried deep within their reports, some outlets revealed a more complicated reality: that many fans of Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club had spent the previous night tearing down and burning Palestinian flags, attacking a taxi and shouting murderous anti-Arab chants, including “Death to the Arabs” and “Why is there no school in Gaza? There are no children left there.”

https://fair.org/home/media-coverage-of-amsterdam-soccer-riot-erases-zionist-hatred-and-violence/

“Hezbollah stronghold” is a term pretty much every corporate ...

2024-11-09T21:32:30Z

“Hezbollah stronghold” is a term pretty much every corporate media outlet has proved itself hopelessly addicted to when describing the densely populated neighborhood of Dahiyeh in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. The term effectively converts the diverse community into a legitimate military target, its inhabitants dehumanized by the linguistic arsenal of a media establishment that is ultimately committed to validating Israeli massacres of civilians.

https://fair.org/home/prepping-readers-to-accept-mass-slaughter-in-lebanese-strongholds/

Despite corporate media’s supposed dedication to preserving ...

2024-08-30T20:03:40Z

Despite corporate media’s supposed dedication to preserving Western democracy, the Washington Post and the New York Times have mostly stayed silent on French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to respect the winners of the recent election.

https://fair.org/home/us-press-loses-interest-as-winners-of-french-election-arent-allowed-to-take-power/

Phil Donahue took progressive issues and mainstreamed them to ...

2024-08-19T20:15:25Z

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/

In a study of the media discussion around student-led encampments ...

2024-08-15T22:23:25Z

In a study of the media discussion around student-led encampments against the assault on Gaza, FAIR found no student protesters (or students) on the Sunday talkshows, two student protesters out of 79 guests on four daily news shows, and one op-ed written by a student protester out of 51 opinion pieces on the encampment in four leading newspapers.

https://fair.org/home/students-left-out-of-discussions-about-student-gaza-protests/

“Seventy-six percent of Americans say that they still trust ...

2024-08-01T22:49:22Z

“Seventy-six percent of Americans say that they still trust their local news stations,” the New Yorker reported. By hijacking this trusting relationship, Sinclair is able to sneak its propaganda into millions of American homes, including in presidential swing states where Sinclair owns more stations than any other network.

https://fair.org/home/how-sinclair-sneaks-right-wing-spin-into-millions-of-households/

It’s a topsy-turvy world in which the Black female candidate, ...

2024-07-26T21:20:05Z

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/

There’s a crucial difference between criticizing Trump and his ...

2024-07-16T21:48:23Z

There’s a crucial difference between criticizing Trump and his allies for their anti-democratic positions and actions—which is what the Democrats and the left have done—and actually threatening and calling for violence, as the right has been doing.

https://fair.org/home/trumps-shooting-should-not-silence-warnings-about-his-threat-to-democracy/

One might be forgiven for assuming that US news media editors ...

2024-07-12T19:02:49Z

One might be forgiven for assuming that US news media editors would pounce on the fact that the most powerful institution in the US promulgated anti-vax material on social media over the course of a year.

https://fair.org/home/us-media-coverage-of-anti-vax-disinformation-quietly-stops-at-the-pentagon/

A white establishment centrist using racist tropes and backed by ...

2024-06-28T22:12:59Z

A white establishment centrist using racist tropes and backed by a whopping $14.5 million from the Israel lobby has ousted a Black progressive congressmember from New York. Establishment newspapers are very pleased.

https://fair.org/home/establishment-press-hails-big-money-crushing-a-black-progressive/

This month brought yet another record-breaking spate of flash ...

2024-06-28T22:04:24Z

This month brought yet another record-breaking spate of flash floods and deadly heatwaves across the US. Despite ample reporting on these events, a majority of news outlets still did not link these events to their cause: climate change.

https://fair.org/home/reports-on-heat-waves-and-flooding-usually-neglect-to-explain-why-theyre-happening-study/

The vindictive plea bargain the Biden administration forced on ...

2024-06-26T22:05:48Z

The vindictive plea bargain the Biden administration forced on Assange might provide Donald Trump in a potential second term with tools he could use to put establishment journalists in prison.

https://fair.org/home/assange-is-free-but-us-spite-will-chill-reporting-for-years/

When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face ...

2024-06-26T18:01:27Z

When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face each other on Thursday for the first scheduled debate of the 2024 presidential election, CNN will be entirely in charge. If history is any guide, things will not go well for democracy.

https://fair.org/home/cnns-debate-plan-makes-democracy-the-likely-loser/

Prominent institutions that are meant to be pillars of openness ...

2024-06-25T00:00:31Z

Prominent institutions that are meant to be pillars of openness and discourse in a free society are perverting themselves in order not to offend donors, government officials and sycophantic newspaper columnists. The victims of this kind of censorship are Jews and non-Jews alike.

https://fair.org/home/censorship-at-a-jewish-school-part-of-a-crisis-for-free-expression/

Many Democratic primary voters went to the polls without knowing ...

2024-06-12T18:58:34Z

Many Democratic primary voters went to the polls without knowing that a leading candidate for Maryland’s safely blue 3rd Congressional District was backed by right-wing billionaires via AIPAC’s super PAC.

https://fair.org/home/a-maryland-house-race-shows-how-not-to-cover-aipac/

US news media reported the tent massacre, some more truthfully ...

2024-06-10T22:21:18Z

US news media reported the tent massacre, some more truthfully than others. But most establishment media repeated Israel’s false claims that it was an accident, weaving disinformation messaging into toned-down descriptions of the scene. With confused syntax, they omitted words like “genocide,” “massacre” and “starvation.”

https://fair.org/home/when-israel-burned-refugees-alive-establishment-media-called-it-a-tragic-accident/

The #NYTimes has become notorious for its role in laundering ...

2024-05-28T21:36:46Z

The #NYTimes has become notorious for its role in laundering right-wing #transphobia for its largely liberal audience. A recent article about local school politics serves as yet another example of how the paper’s anti-trans agenda most likely flies under the radar of most readers—making its propaganda that much more effective.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-misses-whats-true-and-important-about-an-anti-trans-school-resolution/

The #NYTimes says it's not their fault if bad things are done ...

2024-05-14T17:42:28Z

The #NYTimes says it's not their fault if bad things are done with their good reporting. The problem is that their reporting is put to bad ends because it's bad reporting.

https://fair.org/home/nyts-bad-reporting-on-brazil-predictably-used-by-gop-to-attack-democracy-there/

An invasion of Rafah, we were told, would be an uncrossable ...

2024-05-10T15:52:47Z

An invasion of Rafah, we were told, would be an uncrossable “red line” for Biden, but, luckily enough, a New York Times headline says “Attack Not Seen as Full Invasion” -- “seen as” being the kind of slippery language media use to suggest something they’d rather not say, which is that only some people’s definitions matter.

https://fair.org/home/ahmad-abuznaid-on-rafah-invasion/

Legislation forcing TikTok to be sold or face a ban is not a form ...

2024-05-08T20:34:50Z

Legislation forcing TikTok to be sold or face a ban is not a form of good-faith regulation meant to protect the populace, but an effort to either seize or severely weaken TikTok in the name of US interests.

https://fair.org/home/tiktok-law-is-an-attempt-to-censor-not-a-warning-to-big-tech/

The mob attacks at UCLA, along with police use of force at that ...

2024-05-03T22:53:00Z

The mob attacks at UCLA, along with police use of force at that campus and elsewhere, clearly represent the most "destruction, violence and hate" at the encampments, which have been overwhelmingly peaceful. But CNN's description of the UCLA violence rewrote the narrative to fit an agenda.

https://fair.org/home/as-peace-protests-are-violently-suppressed-cnn-paints-them-as-hate-rallies/