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BY Jordan Holycross
New York Times’ Trauma Tourism
October 26, 2018
BY CounterSpin
Nancy Altman on Social Security Myths
October 26, 2018
BY Jim Naureckas
ACTION ALERT: While Rangers Fight Wildfires, USA Today Fans Flames of Gun Paranoia
October 25, 2018
BY Janine Jackson
‘They’re Going to Pen You In and Charge You for It’
October 24, 2018
BY Janine Jackson
‘The US Immigration System Is Inherently Abusive and Violent and Racist’
October 24, 2018
Recent Posts
New York Times’ Trauma Tourism
The New York Times Magazine took readers on a sensational 6,000-word tour of trauma, complete with cringe-worthy language and compassionless photographs.
Nancy Altman on Social Security Myths
Reporting on Mitch McConnell’s threat to Social Security didn’t include any questioning of media’s own role in laying the groundwork for claims that Social Security is a “controversial” or “troubled” program in need of “addressing.”
ACTION ALERT: While Rangers Fight Wildfires, USA Today Fans Flames of Gun Paranoia
Please ask USA Today not to inflame the gun control debate with clickbait headlines.
‘They’re Going to Pen You In and Charge You for It’
“The government doesn’t own our public spaces. They are the stewards of our public spaces, and they are simply supposed to manage them. But they want to treat this now as if our public parks, our public lands, are somehow their property.”
‘The US Immigration System Is Inherently Abusive and Violent and Racist’
“Different immigrant communities have different realities and lived experiences. And I want to highlight those as much as possible, and make them the story, make them the center of the story.”
Imposing ‘Balance’ Requires Distortion of Palestine/Israel Struggle
Instead of pretending that the conduct of Palestinians and Israelis is qualitatively and quantitatively the same, what’s needed is an honest accounting.
Blaming Saudis for Corrupting Otherwise Human Rights–Loving US
The United States’ grotesque alliance with the Saudi theocratic monarchy is not a product of a foreign boogeyman, but core to the US imperial project.
Extra! and CounterSpin
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FAIR’s weekly radio show is hosted by Janine Jackson. CounterSpin is heard on more than 150 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. The current show and a back archive of shows and transcripts are available online.
FAIR Studies
Publishing Police Press Releases as Local ‘Crime’ Reporting
Block Club Chicago suffers, particularly on the issue of “crime” reporting, from the same stunted ethical scope all other local corporate media does. Again and again, Block Club’s “crime” reporting consists of simply copy-and-pasting Chicago police blotters about alleged crimes, with no effort to report any side other than the police’s.
Morning Edition’s Think Tank Sources Lean to the Right
Thirty-five percent of think tank sources on NPR’s morning news show were from conservative or center-right groups, while 19 percent involved progressive or center-left groups.
Calls to Abolish ICE Get Cold Shoulder on Newspaper Opinion Pages
Of the 90 opinion pieces on the subject of ICE that were published in papers across the US from June 28 to July 18, 85 were explicitly against abolishing ICE, while only five were supportive.
Child Separation Coverage Focused on Beltway Debate, Not Immigrant Voices
As corporate media dove into the child separation story, the voices of those impacted most by immigration policy were drowned out by soundbites from congressmembers and Trump administration officials.
Korean Voices Missing From Major Papers’ Opinions on Singapore Summit
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored.
