Overview
| Media | Online |
| Audience | (English) |
| Scope | National |
| Political Viewpoint | Neutral viewpoint |
| Owners | Nonprofit Organization |
| Story Formats | News Analysis (16), Press Release (10), Special Report (4), Statement (4), Opinion (3), Advocacy (2), Editorial (1), Other (1) |
| Story Authors | Janine Jackson (2), Counterspin (1), Norman Solomon (1), Dan Abrams (1), John K Wilson (1), Peter Hart (1), Isabel Macdonald (1), Fair (1), Public Editor (1), Brent Jones (1), Karl Grossman (1), Clark Hoyt (1), Byron Calame (1) |
| Story Topics | Media And Politics (27), Ethics In Journalism (21), Mainstream Media (17), Journalism (9), Media Ownership (8), Fake News (8), Presidential Election 2008 (7), War In Iraq (5), War (5), Democratic Nomination (3), Bush Administration (3), Obama Administration (2), John Mc Cain (2), Rudy Giuliani (2), Health Care (2)... |
Research
| Location | New York, NY, US |
| Search Sites | Google | Yahoo | Technorati | Wikipedia | del.icio.us |
Editorial
| Edited By | Ezra Fox |
| Last Edit | Sep 17, 2007 - 2:18 PM PDT |
| Source Editorial Priority | Medium |
-
Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign '08
FAIR - Oct. 23, 2008 (News Analysis)
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 ...
-
Right-wing Pundits Use Mainstream Media to Smear Muslims
FAIR - Oct. 9, 2008 (Press Release)
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 ...
-
The Myth of Pro-Obama Media Bias
FAIR - by John K. Wilson - Sep. 19, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
-
Brokaw Warns Dems to Lay Off McCain
FAIR - Aug. 29, 2008 (News Analysis)
Longtime NBC anchor Tom Brokaw offered two unusual warnings to Democrats about the supposed limits of criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain, suggesting ...
-
Media Cheer Biden Choice
FAIR - Aug. 28, 2008 (News Analysis)
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 ...
-
Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
FAIR - Aug. 14, 2008 (Press Release)
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 ...
-
Winter Soldier Blackout
FAIR - May. 30, 2008 (Press Release)
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 ...
-
A double standard on reporters who express opinions?
FAIR - by Isabel Macdonald - Feb. 13, 2008 (Advocacy)
There is no indication that Worthington's reporting was flawed in any way. What the paper is saying is that Worthington's critical view of Guantánamo disqualifies him from ...
-
Media on Healthcare: Saying what they don't mean
FAIR - by Janine Jackson - Feb. 6, 2008 (News Analysis)
Knocking down the straw man that single-payer would solve all healthcare problems isn't much of an achievement; while advocates point out that single-payer systems in other ...
-
Money Is the Real Green Power:
FAIR - by Karl Grossman - Feb. 5, 2008 (Special Report)
Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States-with most of the ...
-
More Than a Two-Person Race
FAIR - Oct. 23, 2008 (Special Report)
But besides being a process for choosing officials, elections are also an opportunity to discuss ideas. By ignoring independent and third party candidates, the corporate media ...
-
Interview: Catherine Lutz on Iraq Military Bases
FAIR - by Peter Hart, Janine Jackson - Aug. 31, 2008 (Special Report)
We don't have "permanent" bases then in Korea or Germany or Italy, where the bases were first established in 1945 and the early 1950s. So they have avoided that term ...
-
Adam Serwer on Obama and race, Eric Boehlert on TV diversity study
FAIR - by Counterspin - Aug. 12, 2008 (News Analysis)
John McCain expressed outrage after Barack Obama suggested his critics would use his race to dismiss his candidacy. Much of the media conversation about the back-and-forth ...
-
Obama Moves Right? Pundits Cheer
FAIR - Jul. 15, 2008 (News Analysis)
Ignoring the nuances of the candidate's position and cheerleading for him to take a different one is not a recipe for informative political coverage. But then, campaign ...
-
Washington Post's McCain-Friendly Poll
FAIR - Jul. 15, 2008 (News Analysis)
The Washington Post reported on July 15 that the public is evenly split between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama's positions on ending the Iraq War. But the ...
-
ABC's Debate Debacle
FAIR - Apr. 17, 2008 (News Analysis)
The ABC-sponsored Democratic debate in Philadelphia on April 16 emphasized trivial matters of little concern to voters, while the actual policy questions were often based on ...
-
NPR Underreports Iraq Deaths
FAIR - Mar. 26, 2008 (News Analysis)
It's worth noting that 601,000 figure from Johns Hopkins study and the 151,000 number from WHO both only go up to June 2006, and therefore also leave out the worst of the ...
-
On NBC, 'Expertise' Means Getting Iraq Wrong
FAIR - Feb. 28, 2008 (Opinion)
The assumption of Williams' question is that the candidate who was completely wrong about the Iraq invasion has "vast expertise" and "credibility" on national security, while ...
-
USA Today Responds on Racist Labeling
FAIR - Jan. 29, 2008 (Statement)
USA Today Reader Editor Brent Jones responded to questions, prompted by a FAIR Action Alert (1/23/08), about the newspaper's failure to identify a white supremacist group by ...
-
NYT Falls for White House Spin on Economy
FAIR - Jan. 28, 2008 (Statement)
In reality, few modern presidents would want to exchange their record of economic growth for George W. Bush's. Gross domestic product (GDP), the standard measure of economic ...