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FAIR, 8 months ago to Russia

Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism

The consensus among policymakers in Washington is to push for endless conflict, no matter how many Ukrainians die in the process.

https://fair.org/home/hyping-ukraine-counteroffensive-us-press-chose-propaganda-over-journalism/

#Russia #Ukraine #WarMilitary

FAIR, 10 months ago to climate

Humans Might Be About to Break the Ocean? Don’t Stop the Presses

When a cornerstone of the global climate may soon collapse, you'd think news outlets might want to put that on the front page.

https://fair.org/home/humans-might-be-about-to-break-the-ocean-dont-stop-the-presses/

#ClimateChange #Disaster

FAIR, 7 months ago to Jewish

Particularly when talking about campus politics, media treat "#Jewish" as if it were synonymous with "pro-Israel"--despite polling that finds 38% of US Jews under 40 agreeing that “#Israel is an apartheid state,” and 33% believing it is committing genocide against #Palestinians.

https://fair.org/home/conflating-jewish-and-pro-israel-is-wrong-and-misleading/

FAIR, 5 months ago to geopolitics

Media Obsession With Inflation Has Manufactured Discontent

Corporate media’s single-minded obsession with inflation has left the public with an objectively inaccurate view of the economy.

https://fair.org/home/media-obsession-with-inflation-has-manufactured-discontent/

#Economy #Election2024 #inflation

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Among the terms the #NYTimes memo tells reporters to avoid: “Palestine” (“except in very rare cases”), “occupied territories” (say “Gaza, the West Bank, etc.”) and “refugee camps” (“refer to them as neighborhoods, or areas”). The memo discourages the use of the terms “genocide” (“We should…set a high bar for allowing others to use it as an accusation”) and “ethnic cleansing” (“another historically charged term”).

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyts-war-on-words-avoid-palestine-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/

FAIR, 8 months ago to France

NYT’s Incredibly Low Bar for Labeling Someone ‘Pro-Putin’

In the New Cold War, even suggesting that the official enemy is not Hitlerian or completely irrational could earn ridicule and attack.

https://fair.org/home/nyts-incredibly-low-bar-for-labeling-someone-pro-putin/

#France #NewYorkTimes #Russia #Ukraine

FAIR, 5 months ago to random

Given the chokehold the fossil fuel industry had on this COP and subsequent conversations about climate change mitigation, journalists must be clear and realistic in their reporting about the capabilities of carbon capture, and its role in both climate crisis solutions and fossil fuel industry greenwashing.

https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-fed-cop-28-carbon-capture-confusion/

FAIR, 8 months ago to Russia

For NYT, Cluster Munitions Are Completely Wrong—When Russians Use Them

For the New York Times, cluster munitions fall into two categories—clearly wrong or complexly controversial—depending on who uses them.

https://fair.org/home/for-nyt-cluster-munitions-are-completely-wrong-when-russians-use-them/

#NewYorkTimes #Russia #Ukraine #WarMilitary

FAIR, 8 months ago to internet

The FCC Restores Its Responsibility to Oversee Corporate Control of Internet

Net neutrality is the ability to monitor and regulate hugely powerful companies’ control over an essential element of public life.

https://fair.org/home/the-fcc-restores-its-responsibility-to-oversee-corporate-control-of-internet/

#FCC #Internet #NetNeutrality

FAIR, 8 months ago to Finance

Why Are Michael Lewis—and 60 Minutes—Hyping SBF?

Acclaimed business writer Michael Lewis took to CBS’s 60 Minutes to tell the world that Sam Bankman-Fried was simply misunderstood.

https://fair.org/home/why-are-michael-lewis-and-60-minutes-hyping-sbf/

#60Minutes #CBS #CrimePunishment #Finance

FAIR, 7 months ago to australia

Australians Call to End Long Persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

As Julian Assange has nearly exhausted his appeals against a US extradition order, Australia has ramped up its advocacy on his behalf.

https://fair.org/home/australians-call-to-end-long-persecution-of-wikileaks-julian-assange/

#Australia #FirstAmendment #Whistleblowers #WikiLeaks

FAIR, 10 months ago to climate

As Skies Turn Orange, Media Still Hesitate to Mention What’s Changing Climate

On US TV news, viewers were more likely to hear climate denial than the connection between fossil fuel consumption and worsening wildfires.

https://fair.org/home/as-skies-turn-orange-media-still-hesitate-to-mention-whats-changing-climate/

#ClimateChange #Disasters #Environment #Oil #TV

FAIR, 11 months ago to brazil

As Venezuela Mends Ties With Latin Neighbors, Western Media Turn Up the Propaganda

Western outlets will stop at no length to defend Washington’s agenda, even if that means reheating debunked narratives.

https://fair.org/home/as-venezuela-mends-ties-with-latin-neighbors-western-media-turn-up-the-propaganda/

#Brazil #LatinAmerica #Sanctions #Venezuela

FAIR, 8 months ago to environment

NPR Report on Depleted Uranium Shells for Ukraine Was a One-Source Dud

One-source stories on a controversial story, where there is a long-running dispute about the use of DU weapons, are lazy journalism.

https://fair.org/home/npr-report-on-depleted-uranium-shells-for-ukraine-was-a-one-source-dud/

#Environment #NPR #Ukraine

FAIR, 10 months ago to workersrights

‘The Narrative Here Is That Workers Fought and They Won’

"Something's happening in the United States for workers. They're seeing through the pleading-poverty of the corporations."

https://fair.org/home/the-narrative-here-is-that-workers-fought-and-they-won/

#Labor #Transportation

FAIR, 9 months ago to random

Media debates about education rarely include kids--the ones going to school and dealing with the daily fallout of arguments had about them but without them.
What children are, mainly, is fodder -- proof of this or that argument. No one wants reporters to shove microphones in a 10-year-old’s face. But if you’re doing a story about children, shouldn’t you be at least a little bit interested in ...children?

https://fair.org/home/alfie-kohn-diane-ravitch-and-kevin-kumashiro-on-education/

FAIR, 5 months ago to random

Janine Jackson presents a few of the highlights of the past year's worth of CounterSpin episodes:

• Paul Hudson, president of FlyersRights, on air travel chaos;
• Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders, on Atlanta’s Cop City;
• Eric Thurm, campaigns coordinator for the National Writers Union, on artificial intelligence;
• Emily Sanders, editorial lead at the Center for Climate Integrity, on oil company lies;

https://fair.org/home/best-of-counterspin-2023/

FAIR, 7 months ago to IsraelPalestine

NYT Ignores Dissent to Convey Image of Jewish Unanimity

Readers would get the impression that a monolithic Jewish community in the US's most Jewish city sat in self-imposed collective silence.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-ignores-dissent-to-convey-image-of-jewish-unanimity/

#IsraelPalestine #NewYorkCity #NewYorkTimes #Protest

FAIR, 5 months ago to random

There is a special irony in a prize in the name of German Jewish philosopher and journalist Hannah Arendt, whose work on the rise of German fascism is essential, being withheld from another Jewish journalist for writing about the rise of authoritarianism.

https://fair.org/home/gessens-cancellation-cant-go-unchallenged/

FAIR, 11 months ago to Ukraine

Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine

Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders.

https://fair.org/home/report-shows-how-military-industrial-complex-sets-media-narrative-on-ukraine/

#ThinkTanks #Ukraine #WarAndMilitary

FAIR, 4 months ago to random

Private health insurance is a 90-year-old failed social experiment. Media coverage of it has been failing for nearly as long.

https://fair.org/home/skip-the-last-two-paragraphs-and-other-time-saving-tips-for-healthcare-news-consumers/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

FAIR's program director and #CounterSpin producer and host Janine Jackson spoke on the @ralphnaderradiohour this week about how major corporate news major outlets are opining on the crisis in #Gaza.

Joining her on the show was Dr. Tariq Haddad, Palestinian-American cardiologist and member of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights, who recounts the tragic story of how he has lost nearly 100 family members in the current Israeli bombardment.

https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/slanted-opinions-on-gazaone-familys

FAIR, 4 months ago to california

"The more conservative a #California county, the more it suffers – by far – from the very problems Fox News, the Washington Examiner, New York Post, Atlantic Magazine and national media herd blame on Golden State liberalism."
--Mike Males, LA Progressive

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/murder-shootings-drugs-shoplifting

FAIR, 4 months ago to geopolitics

Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things

The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.

https://fair.org/home/media-that-benefit-from-inequality-prefer-to-talk-about-other-things/

#CorporateOwnership #Economy #Inequality

FAIR, 30 days 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/