Chelsea Manning Speaks–But Who Listened?
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning speaks in the pages of the Sunday New York Times. But was anyone else in the media listening?
View ArticleIraq and Your Gas Tank
When it comes to US foreign policy and warmaking in the Middle East, you're not supposed to talk about oil. But the network newscasts went out of their way to let you know that Iraq was making your...
View ArticleWhen Does the 'Cycle of Violence' Start?
Coverage of the violence between Israel and Palestine often reduces the conflict to a "cycle of violence" that periodically flares up (FAIR Action Alert, 6/30/06; FAIR Blog, 12/19/08). The same is true...
View ArticleWhy Is Israel Attacking Gaza?
Journalism about the current violence is bound to focus on the death and destruction in Gaza. But there remains ample space to ask whether the war was launched to punish Hamas for something it had...
View ArticleMedia Hype and Gaza's 'Terror' Tunnels
CNN and NY Times hype Israeli claims about Hamas tunnels--and omit some important facts.
View ArticleIf Only Obama Had Bombed More, and Sooner
More US bombing is a message corporate media are eager to amplify.
View ArticleCNN Attempts Actual Journalism–But Reverts to Embedded Reporting
Watching coverage of the unrest in Ferguson on CNN last night (8/18/14), I was struck at the actual journalism I was treated to by CNN's Jake Tapper. It's not every day corporate media is awestruck by...
View Article'Debating' War, Corporate Media Style
Discussions of what the Obama White House should do in Iraq and Syria are dominated by hawks, military officials and former national security insiders.
View ArticleReluctant Warrior Bombs Yet Another Country
Can a president who has launched military strikes on seven countries really be called a 'reluctant warrior?'
View Article'Clipboard Man' Shows Media Figures Didn't Get the Memo About Ebola Transmission
The story of "Clipboard Man" created a panicky sensation on Wednesday, and shined a light on the media's failure to inform us about the danger Ebola actually poses to the average American.
View ArticleCNN Host: Climate Change Is Undeniable, So Here's a Denier
A CNN host explains that debating climate change is a bad thing. What came next? A debate over climate change.
View ArticleFAIR TV: Joni Ernst, Midterm Money and CNN's Climate Change 'Debate'
ABC World News hardly covered the midterm elections--but when they did, it looked more like an ad for a Republican candidate. Plus we look at an example of campaign coverage done right, and a curious...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria Wants a Better Public
Zakaria has a different standard for ignorant citizens and ignorant politicians--not to mention ignorant media pundits.
View ArticleHow Did TV News Talk About Torture in Coverage of the Torture Report?
A new FAIR study (Media Advisory, 1/7/15) finds that torture supporters outnumbered critics of torture nearly 2-to-1 in TV news coverage of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture....
View ArticleWhat Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Joni Ernst
You really don't learn too much else about Joni Ernst, picked to rebut the State of the Union address, from media profiles, Nor do you get the impression that corporate media think you need to know much.
View ArticleProgressive Policies Are Popular–So Why Should Democrats Be Afraid of Them?
in his State of the Union analysis, Wolf Blitzer suggests advocating progressive economic policies could "hurt Democrats"--even though polls show widespread support for such measures, including, in...
View ArticleObama as Robin Hood? Sherwood Be Nice
So what's wrong with comparing Barack Obama to Robin Hood? Well, aside from implying that taxation is a form of "stealing"--and aside from the fact that it's a popular theme in racist caricatures of...
View ArticleMuslim-Bashing Not a No-Go Zone for Bobby Jindal
As Arsalan Iftikhar suggested, Bobby Jindal does devote considerable effort to criticizing minority groups who have done less to fit the the American majority image. This strategy was on full display...
View ArticleCNN Peddles Propaganda About 'Completely Mad' Putin
CNN asks, "Has Russian President Vladimir Putin gone completely mad?" Here's a better question: Does CNN care whether it's viewed as an outlet for crude anti-Russian propaganda?
View ArticleCNN on the Frontiers of the Commercialization of News
“CNN Tests New Ways to Mix Ads With News,” a Variety headline declared, over a story about how the cable news channel has “gotten over itself” and has "looked for more ways to weave ad messages into...
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