Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

11/21/2025

"It was once widely accepted and understood that segregation was not an accident, but it was a purposeful creation of state, federal and local government, and we’ve now forgotten it, and we think it happened by accident. And when we think it happened by accident, we then think there is nothing we can do about it. Whereas if we understood that this was the product of government policy, we would understand that there are government policies that could reverse it."

"Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies."

11/21/2025

We’re hearing that SNAP and food benefits are being reinstated, now that the government is “open” again. But that doesn’t convey the situation properly.

What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?

11/20/2025

The Washington Post tells us not to worry about Amazon's hundreds of energy-gobbling data centers--except they don't usually tell us that they're Amazon's.

The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Post—owned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,

11/20/2025

The New York Times gave Katie Wilson’s win tepid coverage, offering an unexciting news piece that failed to put her victory into context or contemplate the gravity of ousting a powerful incumbent. It also, bizarrely, quoted that defeated incumbent—and never quoted the actual winner of the race.

  New York City isn’t the only city to have elected a democratic socialist as mayor. Seattle voters ousted incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell for community organizer Katie Wilson, who had the endorsements of unions, Democratic clubs and the Stranger (7/2/25), the city’s alt-weekly. She credited her ...

11/20/2025

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11/19/2025

Corporate media are repeating the problems of the run-up to the Iraq War by uncritically amplifying spurious justifications for military assault against Venezuela.

With a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers.

11/17/2025

“Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal,” the New York Times reported. The piece presented this development with a lackadaisical editorial attitude toward the president using the federal government that he administers as a channel for his family’s businesses, without much commentary from experts about the conflicts of interest.

It is a hallmark of corrupt societies that institutions like media simply accept that the personal business interests of politicians supersede public service.

11/14/2025

There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?

Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.

11/14/2025

Home ownership is a key ingredient in what is still called the “American Dream.” Beyond the meaningful symbolism of having one’s own patch, home ownership is instrumental in wealth creation—the difference between living paycheck to paycheck and being able to think about the future.

It’s societally important, historically important, who is encouraged and enabled and facilitated in their ability to buy a home, and who is shut out.

Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.

11/13/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights under attack:

"The Republican politicians who were elected to office and the Republican politicians on the bench are working together.... We are seeing the judiciary, specifically the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, most egregiously, really change the rules of the game, allow legislators to go for it, to live out their racial discrimination dreams and craft new districts accordingly, think about how they can best maximize the political power of a dwindling white conservative minority, while artificially suppressing the political power of everyone else."

"They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism."

11/10/2025

Happy birthday to Jeff Cohen, FAIR's founder, who showed us the way. Here's a piece he wrote a few years back recalling our origin story.

It was 35 years ago this month that I left my beloved Venice, California, to move to New York City to launch FAIR.

11/07/2025

As the obituaries proliferate in the establishment press, it’s hard to find a single one that isn’t complicit in sanitizing—to the extent possible—Cheney’s trajectory of mass destruction.

Terms like “polarizing” and “controversial” are the outer limits of acceptable critique for mass murderers who happened to be US statesmen.