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May 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM

NYT Editor Denies His Paper's Role in Setting the Agenda It Reports On

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Editor Denies His Paper's Role in Setting the Agenda It Reports On Jim Naureckas New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn says "good media" (by which he most certainly means the New York Times) is a "pillar of democracy." Talki…

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May 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM

'Are You Going to End the Genocide, President Biden? That's the Central Question'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Are You Going to End the Genocide, President Biden? That's the Central Question' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights' Ahmad Abuznaid about the Rafah invasion for the May 10, 2024, epi…

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May 14, 2024 at 5:36 PM

NYT's Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT's Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There Brian Mier   The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee (4/17/24) relied on the New York Times for its narrative of how Brazil is "eroding basic democrati…

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May 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM

The Media Mogul Trying to Buy Baltimore’s Mayoral Race

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Media Mogul Trying to Buy Baltimore’s Mayoral Race Pete Tucker Baltimore’s mayoral election tomorrow will be shaped by “the single biggest donation to a political campaign in city history,” but search campaign finance records, …

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May 11, 2024 at 10:47 PM

GOP Grilling NPR Is a Tired Ritual That Needs to Be Rejected

All posts View article on FAIR's website GOP Grilling NPR Is a Tired Ritual That Needs to Be Rejected Julie Hollar   Republicans made it clear that they wanted to defund NPR because they didn't like the viewpoints they thought it aired—calling it "a progressive propagan…

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May 10, 2024 at 10:31 PM

Protest Spokespeople... Police Lies... Censoring TikTok....

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May 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM

'When Hasn't Journalism Been in Crisis for Black People?'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'When Hasn't Journalism Been in Crisis for Black People?' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Media 2070's Joseph Torres and Collette Watson about media reparations for the May 3, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lig…

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May 10, 2024 at 3:39 PM

Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240510.mp3   This week on CounterSpin: CNN’s Jake Tapper is mad about college students …

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May 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM

On Campus Gaza Protests, Media Let Police Tell the Story—Even When They’re Wrong

All posts View article on FAIR's website On Campus Gaza Protests, Media Let Police Tell the Story—Even When They’re Wrong Neil deMause   During the summer of protests that followed the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May 2020, journalists and readers alike be…

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May 8, 2024 at 8:30 PM

TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech

All posts View article on FAIR's website TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech Julianne Tveten   As US lawmakers' agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a US buyer within…

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May 7, 2024 at 8:48 PM

Media Scorn Gaza Protesters for Recognizing Corporate Reporters Aren't Their Friends

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Scorn Gaza Protesters for Recognizing Corporate Reporters Aren't Their Friends Ari Paul An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protes…

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May 3, 2024 at 11:11 PM

Suppressed Protests... Murdered Journalists... Divestment Works....

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May 3, 2024 at 10:18 PM

As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies

All posts View article on FAIR's website As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies Julie Hollar   As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying studen…

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May 3, 2024 at 3:29 PM

Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social Justice

All posts View article on FAIR's website Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social Justice CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240503.mp3   Media 2070 We’re now seeing the impacts …

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May 2, 2024 at 9:55 PM

Divestment Can't Work, Media Tell Protesters—Even Though It Has

All posts View article on FAIR's website Divestment Can't Work, Media Tell Protesters—Even Though It Has Jim Naureckas   A Washington Post "expert" (4/26/24) assured readers that divestment is "way more complicated” than protesters think. In a piece on how the nationwi…

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May 1, 2024 at 9:30 PM

NYT Not Much Concerned About Israel's Mass Murder of Journalists

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Not Much Concerned About Israel's Mass Murder of Journalists Harry Zehner   “Journalism is not a crime,” a Biden administration official accurately notes in one of the New York Times' profiles (3/29/24) of imprisoned US repor…

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April 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM

'This Is a Choice Companies Are Making to Raise Fees'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Is a Choice Companies Are Making to Raise Fees' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the National Employment Law Project's Sally Dworak-Fisher about delivery workers for the April 26, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This…

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April 29, 2024 at 9:54 PM

'This Weaponization Is Meant to Shift Focus Away From Gaza'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Weaponization Is Meant to Shift Focus Away From Gaza' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Sam, representative from National Students for Justice in Palestine, for the April 26, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a li…

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April 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM

Fundraising Update: Working Link!

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April 29, 2024 at 4:05 PM

Fundraising Update

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April 26, 2024 at 10:49 PM

Gaza Mass Graves... Campus Protest... WaPo Culture War....

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April 26, 2024 at 10:15 PM

WaPo Lets Bigots Frame School Culture War Conversation…Again

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Lets Bigots Frame School Culture War Conversation…Again Olivia Riggio   The Washington Post (4/15/24) published a glowing profile of two former public school teachers who had "grown convinced their school was teaching harmfu…

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April 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM

News of Mass Graves Isn’t Much News to US Outlets

All posts View article on FAIR's website News of Mass Graves Isn’t Much News to US Outlets Xenia Gonikberg   Reuters (4/23/24) The bodies of over 300 people were discovered in a mass grave at the Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis, a Gaza city besieged by Israeli fo…

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April 26, 2024 at 5:17 PM

Acknowledging the Horrors of Gaza—Without Wanting to End Them

All posts View article on FAIR's website Acknowledging the Horrors of Gaza—Without Wanting to End Them Gregory Shupak   The International Court of Justice in January found it “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The next month, in a lawsuit aimed at end…

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April 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM

Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers

All posts View article on FAIR's website Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240426.mp3   Columbia encampment (CC p…

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April 24, 2024 at 9:34 PM

Right-Wing Critiques Miscast NPR, NYT as Lefty Bastions

All posts View article on FAIR's website Right-Wing Critiques Miscast NPR, NYT as Lefty Bastions Julianne Tveten   Uri Berliner (Free Press, 4/9/24) blamed what he saw as NPR's problems on the way that "race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the wor…

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April 23, 2024 at 3:04 PM

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April 22, 2024 at 9:40 PM

'A Monopoly on the Bomb Would Be a Catastrophe for the World'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'A Monopoly on the Bomb Would Be a Catastrophe for the World' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed author Dave Lindorff about his book Spy for No Country for the April 19, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edit…

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April 20, 2024 at 1:07 AM

Campus McCarthyism... NYT's Forbidden Words... Twitter vs. Brazil... Haiti....

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April 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM

The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All

All posts View article on FAIR's website The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All Ari Paul   With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about US-backed violence in the Mi…

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April 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM

Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country

All posts View article on FAIR's website Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240419.mp3   Time (4/14/24) This week on Counte…

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April 18, 2024 at 9:50 PM

'I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative' Brian Mier   UOL (4/11/24) Libertarian pundit Michael Shellenberger on April 3 tweeted a series of excerpts from emails by X executives, dubbed "Twitter Files Brazil", which alleged…

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April 18, 2024 at 2:56 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT's War on Words: Avoid 'Palestine,' 'Genocide,' 'Ethnic Cleansing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT's War on Words: Avoid 'Palestine,' 'Genocide,' 'Ethnic Cleansing'  Jim Naureckas   A New York Times staffer told the Intercept (4/15/24) that the paper was "basically taking the occupation out of the coverage, w…

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April 17, 2024 at 8:50 PM

'Brutal' Is a Word Mostly Reserved for Palestinian Violence

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Brutal' Is a Word Mostly Reserved for Palestinian Violence Luca GoldMansour A FAIR study finds that since October 7, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal have overwhelmingly applied the term "brutal…

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April 16, 2024 at 3:48 PM

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Support Fearless Truth-Telling! View this email in your browser   Support Fearless Truth-Telling! Dear Media Activist,  We’re in the third week of our spring fundraising appeal, and we need your he…

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April 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM

'Interventions Laid the Groundwork for the Crisis in Haiti Today'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Interventions Laid the Groundwork for the Crisis in Haiti Today' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Black Alliance for Peace's Chris Bernadel about Haiti for the April 12, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly e…

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April 12, 2024 at 10:20 PM

Ceasefire Order... Musk vs. Democracy... Haiti....

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April 12, 2024 at 3:48 PM

Chris Bernadel on Haiti

All posts View article on FAIR's website Chris Bernadel on Haiti CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240412.mp3   Washington Post (3/25/24) This week on CounterSpin: US corporate media’s story a…

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April 11, 2024 at 9:23 PM

Musk Is Consistent in His Opposition to Internet Democracy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Musk Is Consistent in His Opposition to Internet Democracy Ari Paul   “We can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” Musk has said (Wall Street Journal, 4/8/24)—unless, of course, he doesn't like the government making the laws. Elo…

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April 10, 2024 at 8:07 PM

'Punishments for Corporations and CEOs Are Just Paltry': 

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Punishments for Corporations and CEOs Are Just Paltry':  Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Robert Weissman about the Boeing scandal for the March 29, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edite…

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April 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM

Support FAIR’s Fearless Work!

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April 5, 2024 at 10:13 PM

UN and Israel...Alex Jones Documentary...Greedflation

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April 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone

All posts View article on FAIR's website Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240405.mp3   Popular Information (4/4/24) This week on …

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April 4, 2024 at 2:39 PM

UN Tells Israel: Cease Fire; NYT Says: If You Want

All posts View article on FAIR's website UN Tells Israel: Cease Fire; NYT Says: If You Want Dave Lindorff   The editorial boards of the nation’s major media organizations must have been frantic last week. Used to reporting on US foreign policy, wars and arms exports so as…

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April 2, 2024 at 8:50 PM

'This Is About What Has to Happen to Stop This Genocide':  

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Is About What Has to Happen to Stop This Genocide':   Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed IPS's Phyllis Bennis about the Gaza ceasefire resolution for the March 29, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edit…

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April 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM

Support Journalism in the Public Interest!

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April 1, 2024 at 7:37 PM

New Doc Traces Alex Jones' Footprints on Our Post-Truth Landscape

All posts View article on FAIR's website New Doc Traces Alex Jones' Footprints on Our Post-Truth Landscape Kit O'Connell   To lose a child to violence is already one of the most traumatic things a human being can experience. To compound that by seeing those deaths made th…

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March 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM

Phony Border Stats... Musk vs. Free Speech... Ronna McDaniel....

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March 29, 2024 at 9:20 PM

Fox News Border Stats Distort Immigration Reality

All posts View article on FAIR's website Fox News Border Stats Distort Immigration Reality FAIR   Fox News' big scary number (2/20/24) includes millions of people who "entered the US"—then immediately left again. 7.3 million. This is the sensational number of purported…

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March 29, 2024 at 3:51 PM

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal

All posts View article on FAIR's website Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240329.mp3   BBC (3/28/24) This week o…

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