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November 21, 2024 at 10:01 PM

NPR's 'Balance' Serves to Normalize Trump's Highly Abnormal Cabinet Picks

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November 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM

Resist and Reimagine!

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November 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM

It's the Economic Reporting, Stupid

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November 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM

An FYI From FAIR

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November 15, 2024 at 11:28 PM

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November 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM

Media Coverage of Amsterdam Soccer Riot Erases Zionist Hatred and Violence

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November 15, 2024 at 4:58 PM

Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)

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November 14, 2024 at 10:06 PM

How Trump Will Seek Revenge on the Press

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November 13, 2024 at 10:52 PM

'MAGA Republicans and Corporate Media Share a Strategy: Fear Sells' 

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November 9, 2024 at 9:24 PM

Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese 'Strongholds'

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November 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM

Chris Matthews Garbles It All for You

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November 8, 2024 at 4:55 PM

Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump

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November 7, 2024 at 11:20 PM

Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model

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November 5, 2024 at 8:32 PM

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November 4, 2024 at 10:02 PM

When Lights Go Out in Cuba, Media Blame Communism—Not US Sanctions

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November 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM

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November 1, 2024 at 9:21 PM

Despite History of Fabrication, Press Uncritically Covers IDF-Provided Documents on Hamas

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November 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM

Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor

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October 31, 2024 at 7:20 PM

WaPo Says Not to Worry About Climate Disruption's Disastrous Costs: 

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October 31, 2024 at 4:47 PM

'The Point Is to Sprinkle a Little Doubt About the Election'

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October 30, 2024 at 8:54 PM

Bezos' Declaration of Neutrality Confirms: Billionaires Aren't on Your Side

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October 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM

White Men Get Short End of Stick—in NYT Chart, if Not in Reality

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October 26, 2024 at 9:55 PM

In Midst of Palestinian Genocide, Late Hamas Leader Scolded for 'Eradicating' Israel

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October 25, 2024 at 10:38 PM

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LA Times Non-Endorsement Another Sign of Our Billionaire-Dominated Politics

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October 25, 2024 at 8:50 PM

Media Hawks Make Case for War Against Iran

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October 25, 2024 at 3:57 PM

Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression

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October 24, 2024 at 10:01 PM

CPB Funds Ideological Overseers at NPR in Response to Right-Wing Criticism

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October 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM

'We're Witnessing This Global Tidal Wave of Repression'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We're Witnessing This Global Tidal Wave of Repression' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent's Chip Gibbons about the Gaza First Amendment Alert  for the October 18, 2024, episode of CounterSpi…

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October 22, 2024 at 10:05 PM

US Sanctions Shoot Down Sputnik Radio

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October 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM

60 Minutes & Harris... Gaza & 1st Amendment... Media Economics....

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October 18, 2024 at 9:50 PM

To Be a Media Expert on Economics, It Helps to Have the Right Politics

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October 18, 2024 at 7:23 PM

'Housing Discrimination Is Collective, Cumulative, Continuing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Housing Discrimination Is Collective, Cumulative, Continuing' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed author and UC/Santa Barbara research professor emeritus George Lipsitz about the impacts of housing discrimination for the O…

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October 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM

Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert

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October 16, 2024 at 5:43 PM

60 Minutes Pushed Harris Right on Econ, Border, While Ignoring Other Vital Issues

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October 15, 2024 at 3:12 PM

'Americans Understand That Immigration Is a Fundamental Part of Our Society'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Americans Understand That Immigration Is a Fundamental Part of Our Society' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed the Vera Institute of Justice's Insha Rahman about the immigration conversation for the October 4, 2024, episode…

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October 11, 2024 at 10:00 PM

October 7...Hezbollah...Housing Discrimination

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October 11, 2024 at 7:11 PM

For NYT's 'Free Speech' Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don't

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October 11, 2024 at 1:17 PM

George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination

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October 10, 2024 at 11:33 PM

Demonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon

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October 10, 2024 at 7:47 PM

'The Insurance Industry Is the Fossil Fuel Industry'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Insurance Industry Is the Fossil Fuel Industry' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed writer/researcher Derek Seidman about  insurance and climate  for the October 4, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edite…

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October 7, 2024 at 9:50 PM

Double Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in Israel/Palestine

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October 4, 2024 at 11:31 PM

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Exposing Bias Against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Predictably Accused of Bias by CBS

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October 4, 2024 at 8:43 PM

Top Papers Quoted More Wine Importers Than Union Leaders on Port Strike

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October 4, 2024 at 3:58 PM

Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate, Insha Rahman on Immigration Conversation

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October 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM

Media Urge Expansion of Ukraine War—Nuclear Risk Be Damned

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October 2, 2024 at 8:26 PM

New Yorker Sides With Right Against Childless Cat Ladies

All posts View article on FAIR's website New Yorker Sides With Right Against Childless Cat Ladies Ari Paul   New Yorker writer Emma Green’s latest piece, “The Case for Having Lots of Kids” (9/24/24), dives into the right’s election flashpoint that there is something serio…

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October 1, 2024 at 5:54 PM

'Western Press Obscured the Sheer Terror of What Israel Had Carried Out'

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September 30, 2024 at 8:06 PM

Vance Dossier Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal

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