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Barnard Prez's NYT Op-Ed Is Height of Hypocrisy

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September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM

'Media Really Took at Face Value What Trump Said About This Boat and Its Occupants':

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September 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM

It Is a Critical Time to Support Independent Media

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September 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM

Charlie Kirk... CBS Moves Right... Venezuelan Boat....

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September 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Kirk Coverage Downplayed MAGA's Culture of Violence

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September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM

When Trump Took Over DC, NYT First Ignored, Then Belittled Protests

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September 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault

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'Kennedy Is Not a Skeptic. He Is an Anti-Vaccination Enthusiast'

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September 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM

CBS Drifts Further Toward Right-Wing State Television

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September 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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September 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM

Deportation... Genocide Scholars... RFK Jr....

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September 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM

'Insurance Companies Are Moving to Protect Their Profits in a Short-Term Way':

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September 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health

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September 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM

NYT Buries News That Experts on Genocide Say Israel Is Committing It

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September 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM

Media Dance Around Illegality of Trump's Third-Country Deportation Scheme

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September 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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August 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Starvation in Gaza... DC Occupation... Gavin Newsom....

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August 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM

More Coverage of Gaza Starvation Did Not Necessarily Mean Deeper Coverage

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August 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM

The Miami Herald's Fuzzy Math Makes Case for Economic Warfare on Cuba

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August 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers' Voices

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August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM

Media Like Newsom’s Fighting Words—But Are Words Enough to Beat Trump?

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August 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM

WaPo Editors Doing Their Best to Conceal Reporters' Vital Work on DC Occupation

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August 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM

On the Ethics of Embedding With Génocidaires

All posts View article on FAIR's website On the Ethics of Embedding With Génocidaires The Public Source Editorial Committee On Sunday, August 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic announcement: After 674 days of barring foreign media from Gaz…

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August 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The FCC Is Trying to Roll Back Protections Won Over the Past 60 Years': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Free Press's Joseph Torres about the FCC and structural racism for the August 22, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. Th…

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August 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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August 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel's Murder of Palestinian Journalists

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August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism

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August 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM

How NYT's Bad Reporting Helped Justify Trump's Tariffs on Brazil

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August 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM

NYT Complains Trump Isn't Anti-Media <i>Enough</i>

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Complains Trump Isn't Anti-Media Enough Ari Paul   A New York Times editorial (8/8/25) insisted that an anti-TikTok law "did not target speech based on its content, function or purpose"—but in fact congressional opponents ar…

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August 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM

'It's Really a Full-On Attack on the Voting Rights Act':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'It's Really a Full-On Attack on the Voting Rights Act': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Mother Jones' Ari Berman about the erasure of the Voting Rights Act for the August 15, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lig…

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August 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM

Media in Hiding From the Most Urgent Questions of the Day

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media in Hiding From the Most Urgent Questions of the Day Janine Jackson   Common Dreams (8/12/25) noted that "many Americans are persuaded by persistent claims that crime is rising, even when they are not." Trump has commandeer…

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August 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM

AI Job Loss...Trump Occupies DC...Voting Rights Erasure...

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August 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Ari Berman on Voting Rights Erasure

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August 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Trump Occupying DC: WaPo Used to Be Disgusted

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump Occupying DC: WaPo Used to Be Disgusted Pete Tucker   The Washington Post's Marc Fisher (8/12/25) envisions "a a scenario in which [Trump's] dramatic takeover of the nation’s capital and his pronouncement that he will mirac…

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August 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM

'People Don't Know the Deep Inequities Baked Into the Tipped Wage':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'People Don't Know the Deep Inequities Baked Into the Tipped Wage': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the CHAAD Project's Raeghn Draper about tipped workers for the August 8, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightl…

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August 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM

AI Job Loss Hype Could Serve as Smokescreen for Trump Recession

All posts View article on FAIR's website AI Job Loss Hype Could Serve as Smokescreen for Trump Recession Conor Smyth Layoffs are scary. They are also rampant. Over the last 25 years, somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 2 million people lost their jobs in a typical month as a…

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August 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM

'DC's Not Making Money Here, DC Is Paying Billions':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'DC's Not Making Money Here, DC Is Paying Billions': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed reporter Pete Tucker about the DC stadium deal for the August 8, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.   …

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August 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM

NYT 'Genocide' Discussion...NYC Shooting...Tipped Workers....

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August 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Raeghn Draper on Tipped Workers, Pete Tucker on DC Stadium

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'The fact that it's happening Shouldn't Be a Surprise': &nbsp;

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The fact that it's happening Shouldn't Be a Surprise':   Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR contributor Ari Paul about genocide in Gaza for the August 1, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcrip…

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August 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM

'Criminalizing Homelessness Only Perpetuates It'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Criminalizing Homelessness Only Perpetuates It' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed the ACLU's Scout Katovich about forced institutionalization of poor and disabled people for the August 1, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This…

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August 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM

NYT Suppressed Genocide Discussion When It Could Have Made a Difference

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Suppressed Genocide Discussion When It Could Have Made a Difference Ari Paul   Omer Bartov (New York Times, 7/15/25): "Israel’s actions could be understood only as the implementation of the expressed intent to make the Gaza S…

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August 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Media Blame NYC Shooting Not on Mayor Adams, But on Candidate Mamdani

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August 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM

Gaza Famine... WSJ vs. Mamdani... Criminalizing Poverty....

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August 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM

For Media, Trying to Help Gazans Survive Turns Heroes Into Zeroes

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August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM

'Everything Makes Sense if You Get That Most of the MAGA Base Are Members of a Cult'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Everything Makes Sense if You Get That Most of the MAGA Base Are Members of a Cult' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Hartmann Report's Thom Hartmann about Jeffrey Epstein and the MAGA movement for the July 25, 2025,…

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August 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Forced Institutionalization

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July 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Media Sidelined Deadly Consequences of Trump's Reconciliation Bill

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Sidelined Deadly Consequences of Trump's Reconciliation Bill Shirlynn Chan   President Donald Trump on July 4 signed into law an omnibus reconciliation bill, branded in MAGA propaganda (and much of corporate media) as the "Bi…

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July 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM

WSJ Ran 10 Op-Eds in One Week to Try to Take Down Mamdani

All posts View article on FAIR's website WSJ Ran 10 Op-Eds in One Week to Try to Take Down Mamdani Emma Llano   New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani handily won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, despite corporate media’s best attempts to discr…

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July 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM

Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation Julie Hollar   Even as media report more regularly on starvation in Gaza, coverage still tends to obscure responsibility—as with this CNN headline (7/…

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