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FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. 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. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes 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. Uniquely, FAIR works with both activists and journalists. We maintain a regular dialogue with reporters at news outlets across the country, providing constructive critiques when called for and applauding exceptional, hard-hitting journalism. We also encourage the public to contact media with their concerns, to become media activists rather than passive consumers of news.
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Saturday, November 10, 2018
Assange Case Shows Support for Free Speech Depends on Who's Talking The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded in February 2016 that the governments of the UK and Sweden had forced WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange into a condition of arbitrary detention in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been since 2012.
Saturday, November 10, 2018Assange Case Shows Support for Free Speech Depends on Who's Talking The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded in February 2016 that the governments of the UK and Sweden had forced WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange into a condition of arbitrary detention in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been since 2012.
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Monday, June 25, 2018
WaPo Can't Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It The Post defines (and laments) Stewart's embrace of white supremacist ideas, and the people who act on them, not as him being a white supremacist, but as "court[ing] white supremacists," his racist comments not as him being a racist, but his "seeing... pandering to racism [as] a valuable tactic."
Monday, June 25, 2018WaPo Can't Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It The Post defines (and laments) Stewart's embrace of white supremacist ideas, and the people who act on them, not as him being a white supremacist, but as "court[ing] white supremacists," his racist comments not as him being a racist, but his "seeing... pandering to racism [as] a valuable tactic."
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Focus on Pruitt's Scandals Obscures Environmental Degradation Under Trump While Pruitt seems to have adjusted well to the culture of gratuitous and unprecedented graft and corruption inside the Trump cabinet, the media's focus on Pruitt's dizzying array of personal scandals obscures his absolute contempt for his agency's stated mission: environmental protection. He is the climate change-denying head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018Focus on Pruitt's Scandals Obscures Environmental Degradation Under Trump While Pruitt seems to have adjusted well to the culture of gratuitous and unprecedented graft and corruption inside the Trump cabinet, the media's focus on Pruitt's dizzying array of personal scandals obscures his absolute contempt for his agency's stated mission: environmental protection. He is the climate change-denying head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Monday, April 9, 2018
Snipers Shooting Unarmed People at 100 Meters Isn't a "Clash" It's predictable, that in coverage of Israel's recent mass shootings in Gaza -- which have killed over 30 Palestinians and injured more than 1,100--the word "clashes" is used to euphemize snipers in fortified positions firing on unarmed protesters 100 meters away. The term "clashes" permits them to do this in perpetuity, no matter how one-sided the violence becomes.
Monday, April 9, 2018Snipers Shooting Unarmed People at 100 Meters Isn't a "Clash" It's predictable, that in coverage of Israel's recent mass shootings in Gaza -- which have killed over 30 Palestinians and injured more than 1,100--the word "clashes" is used to euphemize snipers in fortified positions firing on unarmed protesters 100 meters away. The term "clashes" permits them to do this in perpetuity, no matter how one-sided the violence becomes.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Headlines Ignore the Abuse Reports That Make Moore Endorsement Newsworthy Newspapers aren't meant to be managers of cognitive dissonance; in theory, they're conveyors of truthful information. By burying and downplaying what makes this story news, they are protecting people's feelings rather than plainly stating what's at stake, and in doing so providing cover for an accused child abuser and his growing list of enablers.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017Headlines Ignore the Abuse Reports That Make Moore Endorsement Newsworthy Newspapers aren't meant to be managers of cognitive dissonance; in theory, they're conveyors of truthful information. By burying and downplaying what makes this story news, they are protecting people's feelings rather than plainly stating what's at stake, and in doing so providing cover for an accused child abuser and his growing list of enablers.
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Monday, November 20, 2017
Ignoring Washington's Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior Correspondent Scott Pelley's segment, "When Food Is Used as a Weapon," employed excellent on-the-ground reporting to highlight the famine and bombing victims of Saudi Arabia's brutal two-and-a-half year siege of Yemen. But its editors betrayed this reporting -- and their viewers -- by stripping the conflict of any geopolitical context, and letting one of its largest backers, the United States, entirely off the hook.
Monday, November 20, 2017Ignoring Washington's Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior Correspondent Scott Pelley's segment, "When Food Is Used as a Weapon," employed excellent on-the-ground reporting to highlight the famine and bombing victims of Saudi Arabia's brutal two-and-a-half year siege of Yemen. But its editors betrayed this reporting -- and their viewers -- by stripping the conflict of any geopolitical context, and letting one of its largest backers, the United States, entirely off the hook.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Iran Doesn't Have a Nuclear Weapons Program. Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. It has a civilian nuclear energy program, but not one designed to build weapons. Over 30 countries have civilian nuclear programs; only a handful -- including, of course, the US and Israel -- have nuclear weapons programs. One is used to power cities, one is used to level them.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017Iran Doesn't Have a Nuclear Weapons Program. Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. It has a civilian nuclear energy program, but not one designed to build weapons. Over 30 countries have civilian nuclear programs; only a handful -- including, of course, the US and Israel -- have nuclear weapons programs. One is used to power cities, one is used to level them.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Corporate Media Analysts' Indifference to US Journalists Facing 70 Years in Prison For journalists covering US media in 2017, the prosecution of Cantú and Wood is not just another story: These are journalists facing decades in prison for doing exactly what journalists are supposed to be doing -- covering the opposition to an administration that establishment media reporters have been warning about since 2015.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017Corporate Media Analysts' Indifference to US Journalists Facing 70 Years in Prison For journalists covering US media in 2017, the prosecution of Cantú and Wood is not just another story: These are journalists facing decades in prison for doing exactly what journalists are supposed to be doing -- covering the opposition to an administration that establishment media reporters have been warning about since 2015.
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Friday, June 30, 2017
As Democratic Voters Shift Left, "Liberal Media" Keep Shifting Right There is a conservative hiring spree at MSNBC, including former George Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace, right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, old-school conservative Washington Post columnist George Will, and former Fox News stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly (though Van Susteren's show has already been canceled due to comically low ratings).
Friday, June 30, 2017As Democratic Voters Shift Left, "Liberal Media" Keep Shifting Right There is a conservative hiring spree at MSNBC, including former George Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace, right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, old-school conservative Washington Post columnist George Will, and former Fox News stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly (though Van Susteren's show has already been canceled due to comically low ratings).
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Monday, March 27, 2017
NYT Says Congress Has "Duty" to Make War -- Rather Than the Right to Reject It The whole point of granting war-making powers to Congress, it should be noted, was so that Congress could serve as a barrier to war. Somehow for the paper of record, this task has morphed into a "duty" to approve wars that are already taking place, lest the self-evidently good and noble war effort be undermined.
Monday, March 27, 2017NYT Says Congress Has "Duty" to Make War -- Rather Than the Right to Reject It The whole point of granting war-making powers to Congress, it should be noted, was so that Congress could serve as a barrier to war. Somehow for the paper of record, this task has morphed into a "duty" to approve wars that are already taking place, lest the self-evidently good and noble war effort be undermined.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
NYT Sees Fed on Collision Course With Trump -- for Doing What Trump Said to Do By failing to remind readers of Trump's stance on interest rates during the campaign, the Times is doing the president two big favors. One is the pretense that his economic proposals are coherent, which they are not. The other is that they allow him to point to the Fed as a scapegoat when his promises of spectacular economic growth fail to materialize.
Monday, March 13, 2017NYT Sees Fed on Collision Course With Trump -- for Doing What Trump Said to Do By failing to remind readers of Trump's stance on interest rates during the campaign, the Times is doing the president two big favors. One is the pretense that his economic proposals are coherent, which they are not. The other is that they allow him to point to the Fed as a scapegoat when his promises of spectacular economic growth fail to materialize.
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Friday, March 10, 2017
With White House Embracing Climate Denial, Will Corporate Media Treat It as Science? A trove of 6,000 emails released via court order by an Oklahoma judge last month (New York Times, 2/22/17) revealed that Pruitt had colluded for years with oil and gas companies, as well as the Koch brothers' political arm, to lobby against EPA greenhouse gas regulations. He even secretly used drafts of oil company talking points in his correspondence to the federal government.
Friday, March 10, 2017With White House Embracing Climate Denial, Will Corporate Media Treat It as Science? A trove of 6,000 emails released via court order by an Oklahoma judge last month (New York Times, 2/22/17) revealed that Pruitt had colluded for years with oil and gas companies, as well as the Koch brothers' political arm, to lobby against EPA greenhouse gas regulations. He even secretly used drafts of oil company talking points in his correspondence to the federal government.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
22 2016 "Nothing to See Here" Headlines Conceal Police Violence at Dakota Access This "clash" framing -- also utilized in headlines on CBS and CNN -- implies a parity between police in military vehicles, employing water cannon, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber-coated bullets and concussion grenades (one of which may have cost an activist her arm), on the one hand, and basically unarmed civilians on the other. (Police say one officer was hit in the head by a thrown rock.)
Tuesday, November 22, 201622 2016 "Nothing to See Here" Headlines Conceal Police Violence at Dakota Access This "clash" framing -- also utilized in headlines on CBS and CNN -- implies a parity between police in military vehicles, employing water cannon, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber-coated bullets and concussion grenades (one of which may have cost an activist her arm), on the one hand, and basically unarmed civilians on the other. (Police say one officer was hit in the head by a thrown rock.)
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
North Dakota's War on 1st Amendment Goes From Bad to Worse While accusing a journalist of trespassing for covering a breaking story of vital public interest is a clear threat to freedom of the press (FAIR.org, 9/15/16). A riot charge would be even worse, because it would attempt to criminalize Amy Goodman's point of view as a reporter.
Sunday, October 16, 2016North Dakota's War on 1st Amendment Goes From Bad to Worse While accusing a journalist of trespassing for covering a breaking story of vital public interest is a clear threat to freedom of the press (FAIR.org, 9/15/16). A riot charge would be even worse, because it would attempt to criminalize Amy Goodman's point of view as a reporter.
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Neo-Nazi Group Linked to Murder of British MP Has Long Been Ignored by US Media The National Alliance was founded in 1974 by William Pierce, an associate of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and the former editor of the magazine National Socialist World. Lack of curiosity about the influence of the violent far-right is a long tradition in US corporate media; don't expect the murder of Jo Cox to change that.
Saturday, June 18, 2016Neo-Nazi Group Linked to Murder of British MP Has Long Been Ignored by US Media The National Alliance was founded in 1974 by William Pierce, an associate of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and the former editor of the magazine National Socialist World. Lack of curiosity about the influence of the violent far-right is a long tradition in US corporate media; don't expect the murder of Jo Cox to change that.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
NYT Dismisses Social Programs, Routine in Much of the World, as "Unsustainable" One could argue that the New York Times' problem is with Sanders' specific proposals, and not the goal of single payer in the abstract, but such a position has never been proffered by the Gray Lady since the beginning of the Clinton/Sanders debate.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016NYT Dismisses Social Programs, Routine in Much of the World, as "Unsustainable" One could argue that the New York Times' problem is with Sanders' specific proposals, and not the goal of single payer in the abstract, but such a position has never been proffered by the Gray Lady since the beginning of the Clinton/Sanders debate.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Action Alert: AP's Premature Call for Clinton Does Disservice to Democracy Superdelegates can declare their intention to vote for one candidate or another, just as voters can tell pollsters who they intend to vote for before Election Day, but like voters they can (and do) change their mind at any time before the actual voting. Media do not generally call elections weeks before the actual voting based on voters' intentions.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016Action Alert: AP's Premature Call for Clinton Does Disservice to Democracy Superdelegates can declare their intention to vote for one candidate or another, just as voters can tell pollsters who they intend to vote for before Election Day, but like voters they can (and do) change their mind at any time before the actual voting. Media do not generally call elections weeks before the actual voting based on voters' intentions.
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Saturday, June 4, 2016
The People Are the Story -- and Corporate Media Are Missing It Media's pretense is that they're reflecting the political pulse of the US public while they're focused overwhelmingly on elections that majorities are unhappy with. It's like looking for your keys under the lamppost -- not because that's where you lost them, but because the light's better there.
Saturday, June 4, 2016The People Are the Story -- and Corporate Media Are Missing It Media's pretense is that they're reflecting the political pulse of the US public while they're focused overwhelmingly on elections that majorities are unhappy with. It's like looking for your keys under the lamppost -- not because that's where you lost them, but because the light's better there.
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Brazil's Neighbors Warn of President's "Dangerous" Ouster -- but US Press Isn't Listening Washington seems amenable to regime change via legislative action for leftist governments in Latin America: After Honduran lawmakers ousted President Manuel Zelaya, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked for international recognition of the coup regime, as her published emails revealed. Questions have also been raised about a US role in the legislative overthrow of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo.
Thursday, May 19, 2016Brazil's Neighbors Warn of President's "Dangerous" Ouster -- but US Press Isn't Listening Washington seems amenable to regime change via legislative action for leftist governments in Latin America: After Honduran lawmakers ousted President Manuel Zelaya, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked for international recognition of the coup regime, as her published emails revealed. Questions have also been raised about a US role in the legislative overthrow of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Panama Papers' Publishers Don't Need to Sell Out WikiLeaks The idea that the Manning leaks ever harmed any innocents is entirely a fiction that was promoted early on and never went away. It's a shame to hear ICIJ heavily imply it, and to see Wired publish it without question. The reality is that Assange, WikiLeaks and their media partners redacted thousands of documents and released only a fraction of the total received.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016Panama Papers' Publishers Don't Need to Sell Out WikiLeaks The idea that the Manning leaks ever harmed any innocents is entirely a fiction that was promoted early on and never went away. It's a shame to hear ICIJ heavily imply it, and to see Wired publish it without question. The reality is that Assange, WikiLeaks and their media partners redacted thousands of documents and released only a fraction of the total received.
