FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
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FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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
The New York Times Magazine took readers on a sensational 6,000-word tour of trauma, complete with cringe-worthy language and compassionless photographs.
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.”
Please ask USA Today not to inflame the gun control debate with clickbait headlines.
“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.”
“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.”
Instead of pretending that the conduct of Palestinians and Israelis is qualitatively and quantitatively the same, what’s needed is an honest accounting.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
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