Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

01/09/2026

The fact that the First Amendment allows you to report on the identities of military commanders, ongoing military operations and the positive aspects of US adversaries is not an unfortunate consequence of unbridled free expression--these are liberties that are core to maintaining a semblance of democracy.

Actually, the First Amendment does give you a license to "expose elite military personnel, compromise operations or assist our adversaries."

01/09/2026

Pondering of never-answered questions is what smart people do. It leads to nothing changing, which is convenient, but you can always say you thought deeply and from all sides.

Some reports suggest you should not believe your eyes that saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good as she attempted to slowly move her car away from them.

01/09/2026

Recent months have seen the US government commit illegal action after illegal action in and around Venezuela: killing people on boats in the Caribbean, bombing civilians and (happy new year) kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and his wife and former leader of the National Assembly Cilia Flores. And all along, US corporate media have whitewashed every step, with language that justified rather than interrogated: It was a “capture,” not a kidnapping; an “operation,” not a crime; “act of war, what’s that?”

Trump will simply declare that anyone who asks for justification is a terrorist. And news media will report that as one side of a two-sided argument.

01/09/2026

The Washington Post illustrates an article on why states should worry about taxing billionaires’ wealth with a photo of Peter Thiel, a billionaire who has figured out a way to avoid ever paying most income taxes.

The Washington Post, which serves the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing billionaire wealth is a bad idea.

01/08/2026

Derek Seidman on Walmart & Starbucks:

"Both Starbucks and Walmart are members of a huge lobbying organization called the Retail Industry Leaders Association. And, in fact, a recent Starbucks board member was the chair of the Retail Industry Leaders Association. This is a group where a lot of retail industry leaders, corporations like Starbucks and Walmart, pool their resources together to more effectively and more powerfully lobby Congress on anti-union legislation, and things like that. So they're working together behind the scenes to advance their agenda, and it's good for us to be able to map that out and know about it."

"We need to be able to...look at corporate power, and look at their narratives and say, 'What does this look like from the other side?'"

01/07/2026

Mitch Jones on AI vs. the environment:

"I think it's extremely relevant to point out that we're building this on a fantasy being sold to us by billionaires who control our media, and people are slopping it up. But I believe we are seeing, and I think that the attention that this letter that we led, is showing that in communities--and again, it's red and blue, it's across the political spectrum--people are seeing that they're being sold a promise that doesn't deliver anything for them."

"All of the changes that happen economically that are going to harm the most of us and enrich a few of the others are sold to us as inevitable."

01/06/2026

By kidnapping a foreign head of state, the Trump administration is saying that international law doesn’t apply to the United States. That’s a sentiment most American editorialists are all too ready to applaud.

Rather than worrying the US will encourage other countries to behave lawlessly, US papers could be more concerned about their own country's lawlessness.

01/02/2026

2025 showed us all a lot about the cost of protest, the dangers in speaking out – and the absolute need to do it, and the power and community that come through it.

We call it the “best of,” but these are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.

12/30/2025

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12/29/2025

A look at the FAIR posts that got the most reads over the past year.

The rise of authoritarianism was the big story of 2025, and the censorship that goes along with it.

12/28/2025

Even those who understood that many forces in this country never let go of racist, sexist ideas are shocked by the velocity of the rocketing backward toward an inglorious past of violent, official oppression.

It’s not just the hateful, ugly racism of MAGA, the overt yearning for the time when Black people were deemed “beings of an inferior order” with “no rights which the white man was bound to respect,” but the ease with which supposedly countervailing “liberal” forces, including the press corps, have swallowed it all – the book bans, the killing of equity advancing programs, the labeling of any achievement by someone not a white man as "illegitimate."

As we try to resist this – not to just beat it back, but to overcome it – it’s important to see the core thread of anti-Blackness in this effort that is, yes, global, yes, top-down, but crucially grounded in this country’s history of what we used to call “race relations.”

US corporate media have a white supremacy problem: They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal.

12/23/2025

Here's the 60 Minutes report on El Salvador's CECOT concentration camp, spiked by CBS for political reasons, but rescued by the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/cecot-60mins