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FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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Absolving Trump Means Erasing the Harm Done to Millions
The call to coddle Trump—like the same outlets’ insistence that it would be mean to send bankers whose fraud derailed the economy to jail—is evidence of the total divorce between real people’s lives and experiences, and the puppets and caricatures in media’s narrative.
Farcical Coverage of Julian Assange’s Farcical Hearing
In the scarce coverage that does exist of this unprecedented case with immense implications for freedom of expression, one would hardly get the impression that the US and British governments are involved in an illegal conspiracy—in violation of their own laws—to punish Julian Assange for the “crime” of journalism.
Julie Hollar on Moving Democrats to the Right, Josh Bivens on Pandemic Unemployment
Blaming the left has been the practice of elite Democrats and their media abettors for decades.
‘Proposition 22 Is a Backlash to Victories Workers Have Had’
“We’ve seen the most explosive and energetic worker organizing on the ground that has ever been present in the gig community.”
When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left
Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist.
‘These Lawsuits Are Incredibly Rinky-Dink’
“The number of ballots that they might be able to throw out…[is] really small, and it’s not likely to jeopardize or change the outcomes in these elections.”
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Conflict of interest: @JoeNBC does huge spot on new bio of Zbig. Brzinzski this AM with no mention that he’s @morningmika’s father. Journalism 101 fail. @FAIRmediawatch
Check out my latest @FAIRmediawatch article on the US media's farcical coverage of Julian Assange's farcical hearing. After researching it, I was astonished by how blatantly the US+UK prosecution stacked the deck against him
https://fair.org/home/farcical-coverage-of-julian-assanges-farcical-hearing/
FAIR Studies
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.
In Pandemic, Sunday Shows Centered Official Voices, Sidelined Independent Health Experts
On the networks’ Sunday morning political talk shows, which play an important role in setting agendas for national political debate, the voices asked to participate were overwhelmingly the usual narrow cast of Beltway actors, with independent public health experts playing a marginal role, and public interest voices almost entirely sidelined.
As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
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