FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Challenging media bias since 1986.
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
BY Joe Emersberger
So Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans?
June 26, 2019
BY Joshua Cho
NYT Presents Social Security Cuts as ‘Solution’ to Problem of Social Security Cuts
June 25, 2019
BY Julie Hollar
WaPo Doesn’t Want Voters to Know Medicare for All Will Cut Their Health Costs
June 25, 2019
BY Joshua Cho
Iran ‘Violates’ Nuclear Deal, After US ‘Withdraws’
June 21, 2019
BY CounterSpin
Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal
June 21, 2019
The study is the clearest evidence of the devastating impact US policy is having on the people of Venezuela.
The New York Times report failed to inform readers on the remarkable injustice of cutting Social Security benefits, in view of where the funding gap came from.
The Washington Post tries to spin the healthcare issues into a false competition between access and cost.
Reading corporate media’s inversion of reality, it’s hard to escape the impression that while Iran betrays its international agreements, the US just leaves them behind.
The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro—all while being celebrated in the US corporate press—was actually, as critics contended, less interested in corruption than in keeping Lula’s Workers Party out of power.
“It’s an actual strategy among oil companies…that if you can fearmonger enough, you can get a public that says, ‘Fine, even though the safety measures are not in place, we’ll drill 10 miles in the ocean if you don’t go to foreign oil.’”
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The study is the clearest evidence of the devastating impact US policy is having on the people of Venezuela.
While the resolution was a radical departure from politics as usual, most corporate media filtered coverage of the “Green New Deal” through the lens of conventional expectations.
A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period, zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took an anti–regime change or pro-Maduro/Chavista position.
Democratic hopefuls’ TV news mentions track fairly closely with the candidates’ positions in the polls.
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.
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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