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FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished
Assange has already been arbitrarily detained for several years, according to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Now Assange could be punished even more brutally if the UK extradites him to the US.
Deborah Vagins on Gender Pay Gap, Nusrat Choudhury on the New COINTELPRO
When the subject is the fact that women continue to be paid less than men for the same work—and women of color still less—such a lot of the conversation is not about how we can fix the problem quickly and concretely, but about whether the numbers really say what they seem to.
Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’
The “dictator” label is also a powerful cue, used by media to prime the reader to see a particular country or leader a certain way.
Bill to End Yemen Siege Passes—No Thanks to MSNBC
As activist pressure on lawmakers to oppose the Yemen War mounted over the past few months, the nominally liberal media powerhouse MSNBC was once again AWOL.
Federal Reserve ‘Independence’ Means It’s Free to Serve the Financial Industry
While the New York Times is right to warn about filling the Fed with people with no understanding of economics, it is wrong to imagine that we have in general been well-served by the Fed in recent decades, or that it is necessarily independent in the way we would want.
Ignoring Lessons of #metoo, Media Scrutinize Biden’s Accusers
As women come forward to accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate touching, some media have responded by scrutinizing their political motives.
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FAIR Studies
Out of 26 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Zero Opposed
A survey by FAIR of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria. Twenty supported the strikes, while six were ambiguous as to whether or not the bombing was advisable. The remaining 74 issued no opinion about Trump’s latest escalation of the Syrian war.
Few to No Anti-Bombing Voices as Trump Prepares to Escalate Syria War
The curators of American public opinion at the three most influential broadsheets in the United States have decided that dissent from the build-up to new airstrikes on Syria is not really an opinion worth hearing.
West Virginia Strike Highlights Corporate Media’s Atrophied Labor Coverage
The statewide teachers and school staffers strike in West Virginia—just concluded earlier this week with a stunning victory by the union—offers an ominous case study of the state of labor coverage in the national press.
MSNBC Ignores Catastrophic US-Backed War in Yemen
For the popular US cable news network MSNBC, the largest humanitarian catastrophe in the world is apparently not worth much attention—even as the US government has played a key role in creating and maintaining that unparalleled crisis.
