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August 26, 2022 at 11:16 PM

CNN Axes Reliable Sources... Alex Jones... Border Polling....

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August 26, 2022 at 9:46 PM

'Bizarre Decisions From Facebook Call Into Question Moderation Systems'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Bizarre Decisions From Facebook Call Into Question Moderation Systems' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Global Witness's Jon Lloyd about Facebook disinformation for the August 19, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly e…

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August 26, 2022 at 4:03 PM

Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS Israeli soldiers raiding the offices of Defense for Children International/Palestine. This week on CounterSpin:  Corporat…

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August 25, 2022 at 10:04 PM

'The US Must Break Free of the Banana Republic Mentality'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The US Must Break Free of the Banana Republic Mentality' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Project South's Azadeh Shahshahani about the Biden administration's Central American plan for the August 19, 2022, episode of CounterSpin…

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August 25, 2022 at 7:14 PM

Manufacturing 'Crisis': How Polling on the Border Exaggerates Extreme Opinions

All posts View article on FAIR's website Manufacturing 'Crisis': How Polling on the Border Exaggerates Extreme Opinions David W. Moore   Last week, two media polls announced results that seemed almost willful efforts to portray the public as extremists. The Economist/YouGov poll …

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August 25, 2022 at 3:31 PM

RIP Reliable Sources—and Corporate Media's Willingness to Examine Itself

All posts View article on FAIR's website RIP Reliable Sources—and Corporate Media's Willingness to Examine Itself Julie Hollar When CNN was bought out by media conglomerate Discovery (now Warner Bros. Discovery), FAIR (2/17/22) and others highlighted the worrisome potential influ…

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August 23, 2022 at 8:42 PM

WSJ Sells Lithium Neocolonialism as Climate Necessity

All posts View article on FAIR's website WSJ Sells Lithium Neocolonialism as Climate Necessity Teddy Ostrow   The Wall Street Journal (8/10/22) underexposes its photos of a lithium mine in Chile—the way corporate media traditionally indicate a socialist dystopia. True to its na…

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August 19, 2022 at 7:31 PM

Media Trust, Polling and the Big Lie

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Trust, Polling and the Big Lie David W. Moore Gallup (7/18/22) released the results of two poll questions last month that purported to measure the public’s confidence in the “news media.” The results showed only 11% and 16% of Americ…

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August 19, 2022 at 5:07 PM

Action Alert: Tell USA Today to Tell Whole Story on Afghan Withdrawal

All posts View article on FAIR's website Action Alert: Tell USA Today to Tell Whole Story on Afghan Withdrawal Luca GoldMansour “The Fall of Afghanistan, One Year Later: Chaos and Uncertainty Have Become Way of Life,” was the front-page USA Today headline (8/15/22), suggesting th…

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August 19, 2022 at 2:19 PM

Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation

All posts View article on FAIR's website Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS   In These Times (8/2/22) This week on CounterSpin: The Biden administration says it's making progress toward its goal to slow m…

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August 18, 2022 at 7:58 PM

'What Alex Jones Has Peddled Is Now Nearly Indistinguishable from Right-Wing Talking Points'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'What Alex Jones Has Peddled Is Now Nearly Indistinguishable from Right-Wing Talking Points' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed Media Matters' Angelo Carusone about the Alex Jones trial for the August 12, 2022, episode of Counte…

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August 18, 2022 at 5:54 PM

Forget Alex Jones—Look at His Helpers

All posts View article on FAIR's website Forget Alex Jones—Look at His Helpers Ari Paul   Poster for Alex's War, Alex Lee Moyer's documentary about Alex Jones. There are two publicly available displays making headlines right now about Infowars host Alex Jones, America’s best-kn…

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August 17, 2022 at 4:27 PM

'This Treaty Could Put the Nuclear Weapons Genie Back in the Bottle'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Treaty Could Put the Nuclear Weapons Genie Back in the Bottle' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed SUNY's Karl Grossman about nuclear war for the August 12, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.  …

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August 16, 2022 at 9:07 PM

Antisemitic Threats to Florida Judge Should Be Bigger Story

All posts View article on FAIR's website Antisemitic Threats to Florida Judge Should Be Bigger Story Ari Paul   Jewish Telegraphic Agency (8/10/22): "Calls for violence have accompanied antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories." The Florida federal judge who signed the warrant…

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August 12, 2022 at 11:27 PM

Alex Jones Trial... Heat Wave Disparities... Afghan War Revisionism....

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August 12, 2022 at 10:00 PM

Is Record-Smashing Heat a Big Story? Depends Where It Happens

All posts View article on FAIR's website Is Record-Smashing Heat a Big Story? Depends Where It Happens Cynthia Nahhas   "Climate Change Affects Everyone" (Reuters, 7/17/22)—but some effects are more newsworthy than others to US TV. As news of record-breaking heat around the wor…

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August 12, 2022 at 4:04 PM

Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War

All posts View article on FAIR's website Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS CT Insider (7/14/22) This week on CounterSpin: A Texas court has told Alex Jones to pay some $49 million dollars in damages for his perverse, a…

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August 11, 2022 at 10:09 PM

WSJ Hates Tax Breaks: California Edition

All posts View article on FAIR's website WSJ Hates Tax Breaks: California Edition Elias Khoury   The Wall Street Journal editorial board has a long history of liking tax relief only when it benefits the wealthy. Last year, the Journal board slammed rebates for middle- and working…

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August 9, 2022 at 9:57 PM

NPR Distorts History of US Invasion of Afghanistan

All posts View article on FAIR's website NPR Distorts History of US Invasion of Afghanistan Bryce Greene   NPR (8/5/22) revises Afghan history. In the first part of a series of reports on Afghanistan, NPR host Steve Inskeep (Morning Edition, 8/5/22) interviewed current Afghan D…

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August 5, 2022 at 10:10 PM

Nuclear Weapons...Racism in America...Chile's Draft Constitution

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August 5, 2022 at 5:06 PM

Why Is There More Media Talk About Using Nuclear Weapons Than About Banning Them?

All posts View article on FAIR's website Why Is There More Media Talk About Using Nuclear Weapons Than About Banning Them? Karl Grossman It’s of critical importance—indeed, existential importance—to the world: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. And a coalition of p…

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August 5, 2022 at 3:24 PM

Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America's Racist Legacy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America's Racist Legacy CounterSpin This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that's strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profitee…

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August 1, 2022 at 4:12 PM

Chile's Draft Constitution: Undemocratic—or Too Much Democracy?

All posts View article on FAIR's website Chile's Draft Constitution: Undemocratic—or Too Much Democracy? Ari Paul   The Wall Street Journal (7/27/22) warns that Chile's proposed constitution will lead to "authoritarianism, chaos and possibly civil war." Chileans will vote in Se…

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July 29, 2022 at 9:57 PM

Gas Prices & Climate... Fox & Bolsonaro... Heat Waves....

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July 29, 2022 at 8:37 PM

Nightly News Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis

All posts View article on FAIR's website Nightly News Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis Olivia Riggio   World Meteorological Organization (5/24/22): "With future global warming, heatwaves like this will become even more common and hotter." Gas prices hit an al…

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July 29, 2022 at 6:31 PM

Just two days to go!

Just two days to go! View this email in your browser   Just two days to go!   Dear FAIR supporters,  We have until Monday to raise $20,000 for our summer fund drive. We’re getting close, but are s…

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July 29, 2022 at 3:28 PM

Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup

All posts View article on FAIR's website Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS NBC Nightly News (6/10/22) This week on CounterSpin: In what is being reported as an "abrupt" or "surprise" devel…

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July 27, 2022 at 4:22 PM

“Privacy Is the Entry Point for Our Civil and Basic Rights”

All posts View article on FAIR's website “Privacy Is the Entry Point for Our Civil and Basic Rights” Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Nora Benavidez about post-Roe data privacy on the July 22, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://med…

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July 26, 2022 at 6:09 PM

Together, we can confront Big Media!

Together, we can confront Big Media! View this email in your browser   Together, we can confront Big Media!   Dear FAIR Friends,  When Big Media, corporations and politicians fail the public—which…

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July 25, 2022 at 3:03 PM

Fox Seeks Allies Across the Political Spectrum to Shill for Bolsonaro

All posts View article on FAIR's website Fox Seeks Allies Across the Political Spectrum to Shill for Bolsonaro Brian Mier "Particularly since the 1930s, the connection of PSYOP with ideology and mass communication has made it a constant strategic element of international politics…

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July 22, 2022 at 10:11 PM

Doubting a 10-Year-Old's Abortion Story...Comparing Putin to Hitler...Post-Roe Data Privacy

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July 22, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Nora Benavidez on Post-Roe Data Privacy, Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection

All posts View article on FAIR's website Nora Benavidez on Post-Roe Data Privacy, Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection CounterSpin Nora Benavidez This week on CounterSpin: The internet has changed the way we communicate, access information and even organize, which means con…

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July 21, 2022 at 4:14 PM

Calling Putin 'Hitler' to Smear Diplomacy as 'Appeasement'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Calling Putin 'Hitler' to Smear Diplomacy as 'Appeasement' Joshua Cho The New York Times (7/2/22) attributed a spike in mentions of Nazism at the start of Putin's invasion of Ukraine to Putin describing Ukraine as "full of Nazis," but did…

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July 20, 2022 at 3:18 PM

Support Trailblazing, Critical Work

Support Trailblazing, Critical Work View this email in your browser   Support Trailblazing, Critical Work   Dear FAIR Community,  In 2005 when John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court, an e…

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July 19, 2022 at 2:31 PM

"They Will Find the Outcome That They Are Looking for and Work the Law Backwards to Make It Fit."

All posts View article on FAIR's website "They Will Find the Outcome That They Are Looking for and Work the Law Backwards to Make It Fit." Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Jessica Mason Pieklo about abortion rights in post-Roe America on the July 15, 2022, episode of Cou…

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July 18, 2022 at 3:42 PM

WaPo Joined Right in Casting Doubt on 10-Year-Old's Post-Roe Nightmare

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Joined Right in Casting Doubt on 10-Year-Old's Post-Roe Nightmare Julie Hollar A July 1 article in the Indianapolis Star about a 10-year-old Ohio girl seeking an abortion in Indiana sparked public outrage—and right-wing media denial…

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July 15, 2022 at 9:27 PM

CORRECTION: Boudin Recall...Gun Reform Public Opinions...Reproductive Justice

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July 15, 2022 at 9:17 PM

'Self-Determination'... UAE & PBS... Why Assange Matters....

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July 15, 2022 at 2:07 PM

Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights and Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights and Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice CounterSpin This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court's reversal on abortion rights is so actually and potentially devastating that it's hard to know wh…

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July 14, 2022 at 3:06 PM

'Whether You're on the Supreme Court Shouldn't Depend on How Many People You Give Your Phone Number to'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Whether You're on the Supreme Court Shouldn't Depend on How Many People You Give Your Phone Number to' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson revisited CounterSpin's July 2005 interview with Adele Stan and Elliot Mincberg about John Roberts' nomin…

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July 13, 2022 at 2:21 PM

'It Would Force the Government to Actually Prove Espionage, not Whistleblowing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'It Would Force the Government to Actually Prove Espionage, not Whistleblowing' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Chip Gibbons about the latest updates in the Julian Assange case for the July 8, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This i…

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July 12, 2022 at 5:59 PM

FAIR Keeps Fighting! Will You Join Us?

FAIR Keeps Fighting! Will You Join Us? View this email in your browser   FAIR Keeps Fighting! Will You Join Us?   Dear FAIR Community,  With seemingly ubiquitous mass violence, stripping of fundam…

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July 12, 2022 at 2:01 PM

National Polls, State Ballots Measure Different 'Public Opinions'

All posts View article on FAIR's website National Polls, State Ballots Measure Different 'Public Opinions' David W. Moore   The New York Times' Nate Cohn (6/3/22) argues that voters don't really mean what they tell pollsters about guns. Nate Cohn, who covers politics and pollin…

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July 11, 2022 at 4:39 PM

Turning a San Francisco Recall Into Rout for Police Reform

All posts View article on FAIR's website Turning a San Francisco Recall Into Rout for Police Reform Dave Lindorff   San Francisco voted on June 7 to recall its district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a reformer who had challenged the traditional “lock 'em up” policies of big-city prosec…

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July 10, 2022 at 1:18 AM

'Self-Determination'... UAE & PBS... Why Assange Matters....

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July 10, 2022 at 12:44 AM

'They Painted a Narrative of This Coach Looking for a Quiet Corner to Pray'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'They Painted a Narrative of This Coach Looking for a Quiet Corner to Pray' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Dave Zirin about the Supreme Court's football prayer ruling for the July 1, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lig…

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July 9, 2022 at 4:42 PM

Did Public TV Doc Promote Peaceful Coexistence—or the UAE?

All posts View article on FAIR's website Did Public TV Doc Promote Peaceful Coexistence—or the UAE?  Nora Lester Murad   From the film's website. WNET, the PBS station distributing the 2021 documentary feature Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times, called it the story of the fir…

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July 8, 2022 at 3:32 PM

Adele Stan & Eliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters

All posts View article on FAIR's website Adele Stan & Eliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   John Roberts This week on CounterSpin: When disastrous things happen, like the US invasion of Iraq or the Supreme Court …

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July 7, 2022 at 5:35 PM

Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies Gregory Shupak   BBC maps showing separatist-held territories in the Donbas before the Russian invasion, and Russian-held territories now. Article 1 of the UN Charter says tha…

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July 6, 2022 at 6:38 PM

Keep FAIR Steadfast & Independent

Keep FAIR Steadfast & Independent View this email in your browser   Keep FAIR Steadfast & Independent   Dear FAIR Family,  We have a particularly inspiring community of readers and listene…

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