Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

09/10/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and public health:

"Vaccines are being undermined daily by Mr. Kennedy. And he protests this, and claims that he's not an anti-vaxxer, yet he takes actions like replacing every member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices with people who are anti-vaccine, or hold other very dangerous, pseudo-scientific opinions on this topic. And so it's going to be a very serious issue with regard to the vaccination coverage in this country. And it's truly almost impossible for me to believe that this is happening in the United States."

"It is my opinion that misinformation—not just scientific, but all kinds—is the greatest existential threat to the United States right now."

09/10/2025

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09/09/2025

After Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her August 31 Face the Nation interview had been “shamefully edited…to whitewash the truth,” CBS News announced that its flagship Sunday morning program will no longer edit its interviews, except for “legal or national security” reasons.

Face the Nation's renunciation of editing comes in the wake of other recent capitulations by CBS and Paramount to Trump administration demands.

09/05/2025

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Cathy Cowan Becker on insurance and climate disasters:

"Big institutional investors, insurance companies, really have a role to play on where this kind of capital and funding goes. So instead of investing in fossil fuels, they could be investing in resiliency projects to make local communities, help them adapt to climate change. Things like levies or public works that would help save major storm systems, that would help cities deal with increased rainfall. They could be investing in that. They could be investing in clean energy projects and energy efficiency projects that lower the carbon pollution that's causing climate change. So, basically, instead of sending their institutional capital to make the problem worse, they could be sending it to solutions that make it better."

"What they're paying out in climate-attributable losses is almost the same as what they're taking in from the fossil fuel companies in premiums."

09/05/2025

RFK Jr. is nothing if not colorful – what with the brain worm and the bear in the car. But what if news media centered their reporting on the millions of lives affected by the weird man with the famous last name? Would we still be joking about his belief that he can diagnose children walking past him at airports? Or would we be interrogating the systems that elevated such a delusional person –and determining how to mitigate the impacts of his work? What if media took their eyes off the bouncing ball, and focused on how to safeguard hard-won medical advances and fight assaults on the idea of health as a boutique purchase, rather than the very definition of a shared concern?

It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.

09/04/2025

When the leading organization of genocide scholars overwhelmingly declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, most major outlets in the US treated that as significant news. The New York Times mentioned it in the 31st paragraph of a story about something else.

A declaration by genocide scholars that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza was widely seen as significant news--but not by the New York Times.

09/03/2025

This is the corporate media template for reporting on a blatant violation of human rights and international law: Go ahead and admit that the US government is consciously and intentionally setting refuge seekers up to “end up in brutal conditions,” but don’t bother dwelling on where that slippery slope might lead us all, or connecting the dots between illegal third-country deportations and Trump’s current mission to do away with the law altogether.

US corporate media have not shied away from reporting on third-country deportations, but tend to dance around the illegality of the whole matter.

09/03/2025

This article is from 2019, but media credulity about claims of Venezuelan "narcoterrorism" hasn't changed.

Allegations of Chavista drug trafficking count among the corporate media’s favorite Venezuela soundbites. A new Wall Street Journal article rehashes the same claims, but extends them to taint late President Hugo Chávez, who is purported to have “wielded co***ne trafficking as a weapon.”

09/03/2025

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08/29/2025

There was a pattern in coverage: Even when outlets adequately addressed the dire consequences of food deprivation, reporting still fell short of holding Israel responsible for deliberately inducing starvation. Rarely if ever did these media label Israel’s food blockade as a tool of genocide.

Even when outlets addressed the consequences of food deprivation, reporting still fell short of holding Israel responsible for deliberately inducing starvation.

08/29/2025

Miami Herald journalist Nora Gámez Torres claims to have obtained a “trove of secret accounting documents” proving that a conglomerate run by the Cuban military has been stockpiling $18 billion dollars in cash while the Cuban people endure a devastating economic crisis.

But it seems the Herald may have made an egregious error in interpreting the one “secret” document upon which the entire article appears to hinge.

The Miami Herald's exposé of a Cuban state enterprise appears to be based on a willful misreading of a financial document.

08/29/2025

The Trump administration’s aggressive whistling past the graveyard notwithstanding, climate disruption is still actually happening – as reality doesn’t bow to weird political whims. In reality, people have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to insurance companies, every month their whole working lives, with the idea that if a storm destroys their house, or a fire burns down their business, that will be acknowledged, and they can be made whole, based on the insurance they’ve paid for, for precisely this purpose, for many years.

And yet here we are, where, as our guest reports, insurance companies are responding to people needing insurance by – dropping them, canceling them, and just straight up not paying them. While continuing to monetarily support the very industry that’s driving the crisis.

You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.