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Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), is a media criticism organization based in New York, New York, founded in 1986. FAIR describes itself on its website as "the national media watch group" and defines its mission as working to "invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints." FAIR refers to itself as a "progressive group". It is described by Columbia Journalism Review and Media Matters for America as a "liberal media watchdog". FAIR claims ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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New York, NY, US
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Ezra Fox
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Sep 17, 2007 - 2:18 PM PDT
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Doctors, media critics demand broader TV debate on healthcare
Between noon and 1 pm EST, the national media watch group FAIR and local healthcare advocacy groups will deliver a petition signed by over 12,000 people demanding that the TV ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Corporate Media Is Shamelessly Pretending Racism Died When Obama Got Elected
For those who don’t see racial inequity playing out every day in disparate joblessness, incarceration or mortality rates, the presence of a brown-skinned man in the White ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Fairness Doctrine
A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a...frequency to the exclusion of his fellow ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign '08
Not only do journalists organize the election story around the question--not terribly helpful to voters--of who's up and who's down, they largely base their evaluation of the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Right-wing Pundits Use Mainstream Media to Smear Muslims
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), the national media watchdog group, released a first-of-its-kind report today profiling 12 of the leading Islamophobic pundits and ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Myth of Pro-Obama Media Bias
As noted by FAIR's Peter Hart in Extra! (5-6/08) and Eric Alterman and George Zornick in the Nation (7/7/08), it is difficult to find even one subject where the press has ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Brokaw Warns Dems to Lay Off McCain
Longtime NBC anchor Tom Brokaw offered two unusual warnings to Democrats about the supposed limits of criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain, suggesting ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Media Cheer Biden Choice
Most of the corporate media cheered Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, seeing the move as a signal that their well-circulated criticisms of Obama ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
Georgia's contribution to the escalation of tensions in the region were not completely ignored by U.S. media, but its aggressive actions were often euphemized, as in AP's ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Winter Soldier Blackout
In March, dozens of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars gathered in Maryland to offer their firsthand accounts of what they had seen--and in some cases done--in both war ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Iraq All Over Again?
There have been recent discussions (e.g., New York Times, 9/29/09) about whether the press is doing a better job covering allegations about Iran's nuclear program than they ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
A single-payer plan would allow the delivery of healthcare to remain private, but the government would pay for it out of a single federal health insurance fund. Like Medicare ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
For Media, ‘Class War’ Has Wealthy Victims
a new FAIR survey shows that within top national media outlets, “class warfare” terminology is almost exclusively employed to characterize as belligerent actions taken on ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Before We 'Save' Journalism
One thing to keep in mind while worrying about the future of journalism is that its past hasn’t been all that great either.Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Will Officials Take the Fifth Unless the Daily Show Is Muzzled?
Do they still teach the First Amendment in law school?Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Single-Payer and False Football Analogies
The decision to marginalize single-payer is a decision to avoid playing between the 40-yard lines. The Times and the rest of the corporate media are the ones who have decided ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
WaPo Slams Single-Payer
In the strange world of corporate journalism, one can prove his/her "centrist" credentials by opposing a policy that has majority support from the public.Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Hannity Hate Buddy Has 'Bullets to Put Them Down'
And, the post continued, "If any state attorney, police department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this; I suspect we have enough bullets to put them ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
U.S. Media Complicit in U.S. Intimidation of Media
Discussing (5/31/09) the "story on the two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea," NPR Check's Mytwords states clearly that it "deserves coverage, as did some coverage of ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
PBS Ombud Sides with Frontline Critics
PBS ombud Michael Getler is siding with critics of a Frontline documentary that failed to examine single-payer national health insurance as a possible alternative to the U.S. ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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