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June 3, 2020 at 10:21 PM

'The People Capturing Police Violence on Video Are the Ones Enhancing Public Safety'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The People Capturing Police Violence on Video Are the Ones Enhancing Public Safety' Janine Jackson The May  29, 2020, episode of CounterSpin featured archival interviews about police racism with Alex Vitale (originally aired 10/27/17), Ch…

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June 3, 2020 at 8:16 PM

Writers Leave UAW, but Pledge to Keep Fighting for Freelancers’ Rights

All posts View article on FAIR's website Writers Leave UAW, but Pledge to Keep Fighting for Freelancers’ Rights Ari Paul   Members of the National Writers Union proclaiming their UAW affiliation in happier times. (photo © Thomas Altfather Good)   The National Writers Union—whic…

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June 3, 2020 at 2:35 PM

Proposals to Ease Covid’s Blow on the Hardest Hit All but Ignored by Corporate Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website Proposals to Ease Covid’s Blow on the Hardest Hit All but Ignored by Corporate Media Julie Hollar   Ability to cover expenses during the Covid crisis varies greatly by race, class and gender. (Pew, 4/21/20). As rent deferrals are ending …

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June 2, 2020 at 9:03 PM

NYT’s Obit Doesn’t Understand Why Larry Kramer Is the Icon We Need Now

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT’s Obit Doesn’t Understand Why Larry Kramer Is the Icon We Need Now Dorothee Benz   The subhead of the New York Times' obituary for Larry Kramer (5/27/20) originally declared that "his often abusive approach could overshadow his achiev…

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June 1, 2020 at 12:55 AM

US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’ Joe Emersberger   For decades, Cuba has sent tens of thousands of its medical professionals abroad to work in countries where natural disasters or poverty h…

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May 29, 2020 at 11:04 PM

Police Violence & Racism... Senseless Reopening Guidelines... Covid Perseverance Porn....

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May 29, 2020 at 9:32 PM

Newsweek Fails to Note That White House Reopening Guidelines Make Absolutely No Sense

All posts View article on FAIR's website Newsweek Fails to Note That White House Reopening Guidelines Make Absolutely No Sense Jim Naureckas   Newsweek (5/27/20) Newsweek (5/27/20) had a piece with the headline: Illinois Is Only State to Meet All Federal Criteria for Reopening,…

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May 29, 2020 at 6:05 PM

Children Risking Their Lives. How Cute!

All posts View article on FAIR's website Children Risking Their Lives. How Cute! Alan MacLeod   If you really want to understand the ideology corporate media are constantly selling us, it's often best not to look at how they cover serious news, but what they depict as light-heart…

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May 29, 2020 at 4:31 PM

Alex Vitale, Chase Madar and Shahid Buttar on Racist Policing

All posts View article on FAIR's website Alex Vitale, Chase Madar and Shahid Buttar on Racist Policing CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link New York Times (5/26/20) This week on CounterSpin: The May 26 New York Times re…

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May 28, 2020 at 6:50 PM

Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers

All posts View article on FAIR's website Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers Ari Paul   New York Times (3/10/20): "Singapore, which has been heralded for its response to Covid-19, decided that closing schools would do more harm than good." A month and a …

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May 28, 2020 at 4:01 PM

'The War on Public Schools Continues, Only Now It's Considered Reinvention'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The War on Public Schools Continues, Only Now It's Considered Reinvention' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed the Network for Public Education’s Diane Ravitch about pandemic school privatization for the May 22, 2020, episode of Cou…

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May 28, 2020 at 12:56 PM

Media Smeared Ahmaud Arbery After His Lynching

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Smeared Ahmaud Arbery After His Lynching Joshua Cho   While it took two and a half months for the authorities to finally make arrests in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, corporate media were much quicker to follow the time-honored pract…

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May 27, 2020 at 9:07 PM

US Media Failed to Factcheck Sweden's Herd Immunity Hoax

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Failed to Factcheck Sweden's Herd Immunity Hoax Neil deMause   CNN (5/21/20) quoted Sweden's chief epidemiologist as saying a 7.3% infection rate in Stockholm was a "little lower" than expected, "but not remarkably lower, maybe o…

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May 26, 2020 at 9:19 PM

A Pandemic on Top of a Pivotal Presidential Election

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May 23, 2020 at 1:44 AM

Coronavirus on Sunday Morning... Trump's VOA Pick... Undercounting Civilian Deaths....

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May 23, 2020 at 12:24 AM

Media Take a Pass on Pentagon’s Systematic Undercount of Civilian Deaths

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Take a Pass on Pentagon’s Systematic Undercount of Civilian Deaths Bryce Greene   The Intercept (5/8/20) was the only outlet FAIR found that gave serious coverage to the Pentagon report on civilian deaths. The Pentagon released  in…

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May 22, 2020 at 6:00 PM

In Pandemic, Sunday Shows Centered Official Voices, Sidelined Independent Health Experts

All posts View article on FAIR's website In Pandemic, Sunday Shows Centered Official Voices, Sidelined Independent Health Experts Julie Hollar   In April, as crucial political decisions were being made about how to deal with the rapidly escalating coronavirus outbreak, there was …

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May 22, 2020 at 3:25 PM

Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization

All posts View article on FAIR's website Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (Screenshot: Fox 5, 5/5/20) This week on CounterSpin: One teacher described it as a "gut punch…

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May 21, 2020 at 10:36 PM

Trump's Pick Could Move VOA Further Right—but It’s Never Been an Independent Outlet

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump's Pick Could Move VOA Further Right—but It’s Never Been an Independent Outlet Julianne Tveten   Michael Pack, Trump's nominee to head the US Agency for Global Media If the Trump administration has its way, the US State Department–f…

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May 21, 2020 at 6:29 PM

Morningside Case Shows Media Learned Few Lessons From Exonerated Five

All posts View article on FAIR's website Morningside Case Shows Media Learned Few Lessons From Exonerated Five Teddy Ostrow   Many Americans now recognize the racism at multiple junctures of the criminal punishment system. Especially now, as our leaders refuse to release the disp…

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May 20, 2020 at 10:35 PM

'Efforts to Make Voting More Difficult Are Magnified in a Pandemic'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Efforts to Make Voting More Difficult Are Magnified in a Pandemic' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Ari Berman about voter suppression and the coronavirus for the May 15, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tra…

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May 17, 2020 at 6:49 PM

Grading States on Covid-19... New Cold War With China... Coronavirus Economics....

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May 17, 2020 at 1:12 AM

Grading the States' Coronavirus Control

All posts View article on FAIR's website Grading the States' Coronavirus Control Jim Naureckas I recently wrote a Twitter thread (5/12/20) about another New York Times graphic feature that was a good idea, strangely executed. The good idea, which appears on the Times' "Coronaviru…

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May 16, 2020 at 3:38 PM

Missing the Context of De Blasio’s 'Jewish Community' Tweet

All posts View article on FAIR's website Missing the Context of De Blasio’s 'Jewish Community' Tweet Ari Paul   New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's tweet (4/28/20) to the "Jewish community." Time for a Yiddish lesson: Shanda, meaning a shame or disgrace; a scandal. Right-wing voice…

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May 15, 2020 at 8:54 PM

Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China Gregory Shupak   Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check. Mitt …

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May 15, 2020 at 6:57 PM

<i>Foreign Policy</i> Sees 'Repression' in Vietnam's Fight Against Coronavirus

All posts View article on FAIR's website Foreign Policy Sees 'Repression' in Vietnam's Fight Against Coronavirus Janine Jackson   Foreign Policy (5/12/20) illustrates a story on "repression" in Vietnam with a photo of a "propaganda poster" encouraging people to wear masks. A r…

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May 15, 2020 at 4:00 PM

Ari Berman on Voter Suppression and Coronavirus

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ari Berman on Voter Suppression and Coronavirus CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: From targeted "voter ID" laws to purging people from the rolls to fig…

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May 13, 2020 at 9:47 PM

US Jobless Rate Broke Depression-Era Record—but Most Media Missed It

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Jobless Rate Broke Depression-Era Record—but Most Media Missed It Dave Lindorff   The New York Times (5/9/20) featured a chart of job losses that stretched all the way down the front page. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ eagerly await…

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May 13, 2020 at 4:47 PM

'Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the May 8, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. Thi…

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May 12, 2020 at 10:29 PM

Learning All the Wrong Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis

All posts View article on FAIR's website Learning All the Wrong Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis  Nina Eichacker   I recently wrote a piece for FAIR (4/25/20) about how I felt more optimistic about media reporting on the economic aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite wh…

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May 11, 2020 at 11:17 PM

Corporate Media Don't Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Don't Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries Joshua Cho   When an attempted invasion of Venezuela launched from the shores of Colombia was foiled on May 3, after armed commandos were intercepted at Ve…

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May 9, 2020 at 10:17 PM

'Real Coronavirus Death Toll'... Chinese 'Wet Markets'... USPS Threat... Oil Elegies....

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May 9, 2020 at 6:26 PM

'We Can Pool the World's Science to Develop Better Medical Tools'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Can Pool the World's Science to Develop Better Medical Tools' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen’s Peter Maybarduk about the drug industry and Covid-19 for the May 1, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightl…

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May 9, 2020 at 5:24 PM

Are People Getting Sick Staying Home Alone? That's Not What a Misinterpreted Survey Said

All posts View article on FAIR's website Are People Getting Sick Staying Home Alone? That's Not What a Misinterpreted Survey Said Jim Naureckas   Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it's "shocking" that most Covid-19 hospital patients "had been staying at home" (CNBC, 5/6/20)—but did his sur…

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May 8, 2020 at 10:21 PM

New York State Tries to Suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo Shrug

All posts View article on FAIR's website New York State Tries to Suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo Shrug Julie Hollar   Blaming health risks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the New York State Board of Elections announced last week that the state would simply cancel its Democratic pre…

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May 8, 2020 at 7:49 PM

NYT's 'Real Coronavirus Death Toll' Is Anything But

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT's 'Real Coronavirus Death Toll' Is Anything But Jim Naureckas   The New York Times graphics department has done some great work translating the data of the Covid-19 pandemic into visual form, allowing readers to get an intuitive sense …

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May 8, 2020 at 6:41 PM

Gov. Hogan’s Purchase of Korean Covid Tests Looks Like a PR stunt—and Media Fell for It

All posts View article on FAIR's website Gov. Hogan’s Purchase of Korean Covid Tests Looks Like a PR stunt—and Media Fell for It Pete Tucker   The New York Times (4/20/20), among other outlets, presented Hogan's acquisition of Korean tests as a Trump-defying coup. Despite being…

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May 8, 2020 at 3:43 PM

Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19 CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (Image: Devries Dairy via Idaho Statesman) This week on CounterSpin: While you may be forg…

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May 7, 2020 at 8:47 PM

Guardian Blames Trump’s Murderous US Exceptionalism on Hugo Chávez

All posts View article on FAIR's website Guardian Blames Trump’s Murderous US Exceptionalism on Hugo Chávez  Lucas Koerner   The Guardian's Rory Carroll (4/19/20) presented Donald Trump and Hugo Chávez as brothers under the skin: " as media-savvy populists they worked the same p…

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May 7, 2020 at 5:26 PM

'There's a Perceived Need to Get This Over With So We Can Get Back to Work'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'There's a Perceived Need to Get This Over With So We Can Get Back to Work' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR's Jim Naureckas about Covid-19 false choices for the May 1, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited t…

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May 7, 2020 at 1:42 PM

Why It's Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Why It's Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets' Joshua Cho   The New York Times (1/25/20) says the eating of unusual animals like turtles and snakes is "driven as much by the desire to flaunt wealth as by a mix of s…

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May 4, 2020 at 9:21 PM

'The Industry Chose to Protect Billions of Dollars a Year in Its Own Profit'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Industry Chose to Protect Billions of Dollars a Year in Its Own Profit' Janine Jackson The April 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin included an archived interview with Sriram Madhusoodanan about fossil fuel accountability, which origina…

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May 4, 2020 at 6:24 PM

Newspapers Won't Connect the Dots on Postal Service Threats

All posts View article on FAIR's website Newspapers Won't Connect the Dots on Postal Service Threats Julie Hollar   More than six weeks after a bill was introduced to require vote-by-mail to be available for the November 3 elections, no federal steps have been taken to ensure a f…

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May 1, 2020 at 8:37 PM

It's Crucial to Distinguish Between <i>Can't</i> and <i>Won't</i>—With a Million Lives at Stake

All posts View article on FAIR's website It's Crucial to Distinguish Between Can't and Won't—With a Million Lives at Stake Jim Naureckas CNN (5/1/20) fails to note that its expert is predicting a seven-figure death toll for the United States. In a story predicting two more year…

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May 1, 2020 at 5:08 PM

Corporate Looting as 'Rescue Plan,' Robber Barons as 'Saviors'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Looting as 'Rescue Plan,' Robber Barons as 'Saviors' Joshua Cho   Framing a massive corporate bailout as a "rescue package" (NPR, 3/27/20) was a PR coup. For a perfect illustration of how corporate media function as ruling clas…

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May 1, 2020 at 4:21 PM

Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link New York Times (4/28/20)   This week on CounterSp…

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April 30, 2020 at 9:16 PM

A Pandemic Is Not a War

All posts View article on FAIR's website A Pandemic Is Not a War Robin Andersen   Bloomberg (3/20/20) Though many public officials and media outlets seem increasingly convinced that we are fighting a war against Covid-19, framing the pandemic in military terms obscures what we …

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April 30, 2020 at 8:11 PM

By 'as Successful as Most Other Nations,' NYT Means Sweden Is '10th Worst in the World'

All posts View article on FAIR's website By 'as Successful as Most Other Nations,' NYT Means Sweden Is '10th Worst in the World' Jim Naureckas The relaxed attitude of Swedes towards the spread of the coronavirus "does not seem to have hurt them," reports the New York Times (4/28…

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April 30, 2020 at 12:10 AM

Is Kim Dead? Your Guess Is as Good as Western Media’s

All posts View article on FAIR's website Is Kim Dead? Your Guess Is as Good as Western Media’s Julianne Tveten     "Monitoring intelligence" is journalese for "aware of rumors" (CNN, 4/20/20). If CNN is to be believed, Kim Jong-un is in critical condition—or he isn’t. Recently,…

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April 29, 2020 at 8:36 PM

Rhode Island Only Looks Like It Has a Bad Covid-19 Outbreak Because It Has a Bad Covid-19 Outbreak

All posts View article on FAIR's website Rhode Island Only Looks Like It Has a Bad Covid-19 Outbreak Because It Has a Bad Covid-19 Outbreak Jim Naureckas   The New York Times' "experts" (4/28/20) attribute Rhode Island's high coronavirus numbers to "aggressive testing." A story…

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