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Since the fall of 1986, FAIR has been monitoring corporate media to document bias, government influence and skewed reporting, while championing the efforts of independent journalism.

CNN brought on multiple featured guests who framed protesters as violent and law enforcement as the ones pushing for acc...
07/11/2025

CNN brought on multiple featured guests who framed protesters as violent and law enforcement as the ones pushing for accountability—despite the fact that reported injuries of civilians by law enforcement far outnumbered those of law enforcement by protesters.

A FAIR study found that CNN’s primetime coverage of the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests in early June rarely included the voices of the protesters themselves.

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon:"I love, in the editorial of the Times eight da...
07/11/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon:

"I love, in the editorial of the Times eight days before the primary, 'Many New Yorkers are understandably disappointed by the Democratic field.' Well, there were some New Yorkers disappointed: It was the New York Times editorial board, which was blasting Mamdani, but they couldn't, as they usually do, endorse the corporate centrist Cuomo, or be nice to him, because of all of his scandals.

"But when it comes to New Yorkers as a whole, they were pretty enthused by the Democratic field, because voter turnout was the biggest in 36 years."

"These billionaires believe that there should be only two choices, and they should both be acceptable to the billionaires."

Among the myriad horrors of the Republican budget bill is the otherworldly amount of money, $175 billion, slated to fund...
07/11/2025

Among the myriad horrors of the Republican budget bill is the otherworldly amount of money, $175 billion, slated to fund mass deportation. That exceeds the military budget of every country in the world but the US and China. And some $30 billion is to go to ICE, the masked goons that are descending on swap meets and workplaces to carry out what many, including the ACLU, are calling "brazen, midday kidnappings."

Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.

While half of newspaper articles and news transcripts mentioning the reconciliation bill from its first passage in the H...
07/09/2025

While half of newspaper articles and news transcripts mentioning the reconciliation bill from its first passage in the House to its signing into law also mentioned Medicaid, less than 6% named ICE, whose budget the bill triples.

US corporate media outlets have refrained from delving too deeply into what exactly this massive ramping up of ICE portends for American society.

If Israeli military and political actions are off-limits to comparisons to the N***s in the field of cartoons, the same ...
07/09/2025

If Israeli military and political actions are off-limits to comparisons to the N***s in the field of cartoons, the same is not true for Palestinians. This creates a situation where the Israeli government perpetrating a genocide, per Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, cannot be compared to the N***s, but the Palestinians—the victims of the same genocide—can.

Right-wing media and pro-Israel pressure groups still have the capacity to threaten the employment of cartoonists who do not toe the pro-Israel line.

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Adam Johnson:"There's this zombie liberal 'rules-based order' framing that is...
07/08/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Adam Johnson:

"There's this zombie liberal 'rules-based order' framing that is still going on, despite the fact that there's an unfolding genocide that's lost all pretense of international law. And so there's this 'Oh, the US has to be a policeman and police the world' faux-liberal framework that Trump doesn't take seriously, Netanyahu doesn't take seriously, but the media, especially the kind of prestige editorial pages and opinion pages, the New York Times and Washington Post, have to maintain that this is still a thing."

"The scope of debate...is not 'Do we have any legitimacy to be bombing Iran?' but 'Is bombing Iran the best way to stop them from enriching uranium?'”

Meet the Press's Kristen Welker asked Zohran Mamdani to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” claiming that the t...
07/07/2025

Meet the Press's Kristen Welker asked Zohran Mamdani to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” claiming that the term “intifada” refers to “violence against Jews.” As a Palestinian journalist who covered the Intifada and helped introduce the term to Western media, I am appalled by this misrepresentation.

I can say unequivocally: Intifada was used by Palestinian activists to describe a civil resistance movement rooted in dignity and national self-determination.

Zohran Mamdani, who New York magazine described as “crash[ing] the party,” has won the Democratic mayoral primary here i...
07/04/2025

Zohran Mamdani, who New York magazine described as “crash[ing] the party,” has won the Democratic mayoral primary here in New York City. Suffice to say, fissures are being revealed, lines are being drawn, and whatever you think of Mamdani or New York City in particular, the question of whether the Democratic Party, as it is, wants to be part of the future or not is on the table in front of us. And here’s the thing: Plenty of people are not being scared off by the idea that things could change! Because they actually want them to! Elite media have no place in their brain for this concept, and so we can expect to confront coverage reflecting that.

Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.

Whether it’s Iran’s supposed support for terrorism or Iran’s nonexistent and non-imminent nuclear weapons, the propagand...
07/03/2025

Whether it’s Iran’s supposed support for terrorism or Iran’s nonexistent and non-imminent nuclear weapons, the propaganda follows the same formula: make an unsubstantiated claim about Iranian malfeasance, and use that as a premise on which to defend Washington openly carrying out acts of aggression, perhaps the gravest violation of international law.

Rather than condemning the US bombing of Iran as a blatant violation of international law, commentators gushed over the “brilliant military operation.”

The ruling ideology of Washington is we have two parties, they do their job, they do their job pretty well. The differen...
07/02/2025

The ruling ideology of Washington is we have two parties, they do their job, they do their job pretty well. The differences between them limit the terms of the debate. But we know that real change comes from outside the consensus. Real change comes from people making history, challenging history, dissenting, protesting, agitating, organizing.
--Bill Moyers (1934-2025)

The 1967 Carnegie Commission called for public TV to “provide a voice for groups...that may otherwise be unheard.” Bill Moyers exemplified that ideal.

By downplaying critiques of Trump, the Sunday talkshows used their inside-the-Beltway influence to tell insiders that th...
07/01/2025

By downplaying critiques of Trump, the Sunday talkshows used their inside-the-Beltway influence to tell insiders that the MAGA presidency should get a more deferential reception the second time around.

In 2024, when Trump's rhetoric and cabinet picks became even more extreme, fewer Sunday show guests voiced criticism of Trump and his cabinet than in 2016.

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Since 1986, FAIR has been monitoring corporate media to document bias, government influence and skewed reporting, while championing the efforts of independent journalism.