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FAIR, 1 day ago to random

What #NYTimes critics are calling for is not censorship, as executive editor Joe Kahn pretends, but a recognition that the paper is not merely holding up a mirror to the world, but making choices about what’s important for readers to know—and that those choices have real-world consequences.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-editor-denies-his-papers-role-in-setting-the-agenda-it-reports-on/

FAIR, 2 days ago to random

Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on the Rafah invasion:

"Another overreach, another violation of our constitutional rights, another mode of repression against Palestinian organizing and activism. But the fact of the matter is, this isn't going to stop us. If they think that a piece of legislation like this is going to cause us to cease our advocacy, our activities, our organizing, our shutting it down for Palestine, then they've miscalculated."

https://fair.org/home/are-you-going-to-end-the-genocide-president-biden-thats-the-central-question/

FAIR, 2 days ago to random

The #NYTimes says it's not their fault if bad things are done with their good reporting. The problem is that their reporting is put to bad ends because it's bad reporting.

https://fair.org/home/nyts-bad-reporting-on-brazil-predictably-used-by-gop-to-attack-democracy-there/

FAIR, 3 days ago to random

Controlling one of Baltimore’s major television stations, while simultaneously wielding hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, adds up to serious political clout. But apparently it’s not enough for David Smith.

In January, Smith personally purchased the Baltimore Sun, Maryland’s largest newspaper, for an undisclosed sum.

https://fair.org/home/the-media-mogul-trying-to-buy-baltimores-mayoral-race/

FAIR, 5 days ago to random

As FAIR has documented throughout the years, the primary “intractable bias” public broadcasting suffers from is a bias toward the same corporate and political elites that dominate the rest of establishment media—despite the fact that it was created to “provide a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise be unheard.”

https://fair.org/home/gop-grilling-npr-is-a-tired-ritual-that-needs-to-be-rejected/

FAIR, 6 days ago to random

Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Joe Torres and Colette Watson on media reparations:

"There's a lack of understanding of the fact that journalism being white-dominated, and being steeped in a worldview of Black inferiority and a worldview of racial hierarchy, has very much been a part of why we find this industry to be faltering at this point."

https://fair.org/home/when-hasnt-journalism-been-in-crisis-for-black-people/

FAIR, 6 days ago to random

An invasion of Rafah, we were told, would be an uncrossable “red line” for Biden, but, luckily enough, a New York Times headline says “Attack Not Seen as Full Invasion” -- “seen as” being the kind of slippery language media use to suggest something they’d rather not say, which is that only some people’s definitions matter.

https://fair.org/home/ahmad-abuznaid-on-rafah-invasion/

FAIR, 7 days ago to random

Following the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020, journalists and readers alike began taking a hard look at how reliance on police sources was leading the media to publish wrong information.

Yet four years later, when protests broke out on college campuses calling for divestment from companies that support the Israeli government’s campaign of killing civilians in Gaza, US media forgot those lessons—and ended up repeatedly misinforming readers as a result.

https://fair.org/home/on-campus-gaza-protests-media-let-police-tell-the-story-even-when-theyre-wrong/

FAIR, 8 days ago to random

Legislation forcing TikTok to be sold or face a ban is not a form of good-faith regulation meant to protect the populace, but an effort to either seize or severely weaken TikTok in the name of US interests.

https://fair.org/home/tiktok-law-is-an-attempt-to-censor-not-a-warning-to-big-tech/

FAIR, 9 days ago to random

What could make activists suspect that the network that produced “Anti-Israel Agitators: Signs of ‘Foreign Assistance’ Emerge in Columbia, NYU Unrest,” “Pressure Builds for Colleges to Close or Shut Down Anti-Israel Encampments Amid Death Threats Toward Jews” and “Ivy League Anti-Israel Agitators’ Protests Spiral Into ‘Actual Terror Organization,’ Professor Warns” wouldn’t give them a fair shake?

https://fair.org/home/media-scorn-gaza-protesters-for-recognizing-corporate-reporters-arent-their-friends/

FAIR, 13 days ago to random

The mob attacks at UCLA, along with police use of force at that campus and elsewhere, clearly represent the most "destruction, violence and hate" at the encampments, which have been overwhelmingly peaceful. But CNN's description of the UCLA violence rewrote the narrative to fit an agenda.

https://fair.org/home/as-peace-protests-are-violently-suppressed-cnn-paints-them-as-hate-rallies/

PeachMcD, 13 days ago to random

#BDS4Israel #FreePalestine

Thanks @FAIR , for consistently & rightly mocking the specious #gaslighting tactics of #CorporateMedia

https://fair.org/home/divestment-cant-work-media-tell-protesters-even-though-it-has/

FAIR, 14 days ago to random

The economic logic against divestment presented by the Wall Street Journal is so compelling, you have to wonder why supporters of Israel aren’t supporting the divestment movement, rather than pushing for laws that make divestment from Israel illegal.

https://fair.org/home/divestment-cant-work-media-tell-protesters-even-though-it-has/

FAIR, 15 days ago to Israel

Since October 7—as #Israel has killed more journalists, in a shorter period of time, than any country in modern history—the #NYTimes has minimized when not ignoring this mass murder.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-not-much-concerned-about-israels-mass-murder-of-journalists/

FAIR, 16 days ago to random

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Sally Dworak-Fisher on app-based workers:

"What do we as a society want in terms of our policies? Do we want just any business? Don’t we have minimum wage laws for a reason? If you can’t make it work while still paying a living wage, then consumers aren’t in the business of subsidizing that. I’m sorry, but not every business is entitled to run on the lowest wage possible."

https://fair.org/home/this-is-a-choice-companies-are-making-to-raise-fees/

FAIR, 17 days ago to random

"If you’re on a campus, that means that it is sometimes harder to speak out, especially because we’re seeing students getting suspended, and when they get suspended, they get banned from campus, they get evicted from their student housing, sometimes they lose access to healthcare. And, basically, the schools control a lot more of students’ lives than any institution does for adults in the workforce, for example."

https://fair.org/home/this-weaponization-is-meant-to-shift-focus-away-from-gaza/

FAIR, 20 days ago to random

Headlines relating to Palestine have predominantly focused on protests happening at university campuses across the country—an important story, but not one that ought to drown out coverage of the atrocities students are protesting against.

https://fair.org/home/news-of-mass-graves-isnt-much-news-to-us-outlets/

FAIR, 20 days ago to random

There is a long list of US college campuses where encampments and other forms of protest are going on, in efforts to get college administrations to divest their deep and powerful resources from weapons manufacturers and other ways and means of enabling Israel’s war on Palestinians – assaults that have killed some 34,000 people, just since the Hamas attack of October 7.

https://fair.org/home/sam-on-students-for-justice-in-palestine-sally-dworak-fisher-on-delivery-workers/

FAIR, 21 days ago to random

The prospective TikTok ban we wrote about last month has now been signed into law.

https://fair.org/home/house-votes-against-tiktok-and-for-more-cold-war/

FAIR, 22 days ago to random

In a media milieu in which it’s more acceptable to support reactionaries in power than the people whose lives they attempt to destroy, the real “heretics” prove not to be those issuing critiques from the right, but from the left.

https://fair.org/home/right-wing-critiques-miscast-npr-nyt-as-lefty-bastions/

FAIR, 22 days ago to random

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FAIR, 23 days ago to random

Palestinian journalists call for a boycott of the April 27 White House correspondents' dinner in light of "the Biden administration’s ongoing complicity in the systematic slaughter and persecution of journalists in Gaza."

https://medium.com/@gazajournalists/appeal-boycott-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-stand-with-your-colleagues-in-gaza-fac979195de6

FAIR, 24 days ago to random

CounterSpin's interview with Dave Lindorff:

"As soon as the war ended, the US started, in the Manhattan Project and then later the Atomic Energy Commission, working feverishly to figure out a way to mass produce atomic bombs. And by ’48, they were producing them at a hundred a month. And why were they doing that, when they thought that there’d been no spies in the project, and that the Soviet Union would not get an atomic bomb for at least eight or ten years?"

https://fair.org/home/a-monopoly-on-the-bomb-would-be-a-catastrophe-for-the-world/

FAIR, 27 days ago to random

Universities are not simply clamping down on free speech because the administrators dislike this particular speech, or out of fear that pro-Palestine demonstrations or vocal faculty members could scare donors from writing big checks. This is a result of state actors—congressional Republicans, in particular—who are using their committee power and sycophants in the media to demand more firings, more suspensions, more censorship.

https://fair.org/home/the-mccarthyist-attack-on-gaza-protests-threatens-free-thought-for-all/

FAIR, 28 days ago to random

"So at the moment when were were managing to finally hold the main leaders of this attempted coup accountable, Elon Musk and Michael Shellenberger came onto the scene to attack the institutions that are prosecuting them, to usurp their power so they can’t convict them anymore."

https://fair.org/home/i-knew-they-had-fabricated-a-false-narrative/