FAIR

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Climate disruption is one of the most disastrous phenomena of today’s life, affecting every corner of the globe. We know what causes it, we know what meaningful intervention would entail. So it’s a human-made tragedy, unfolding in real time before our eyes. We need to be talking about it, learning about it, hearing about it, urgently.

But instead, according to the results of this week's guest’s research, broadcast news coverage of the climate crisis is going down.

https://fair.org/home/evlondo-cooper-on-climate-coverage-rick-goldsmith-on-stripped-for-parts/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

The #NYTimes failed at the basic task of evaluating arguments, reducing the grave charge of genocide to an unresolvable he said/she said back-and-forth.

https://fair.org/home/establishment-papers-fell-short-in-coverage-of-genocide-charges/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Suyapa Portillo Villeda on the conviction of #Honduras ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez:

"This guy went down for engaging in drug trafficking, but really he needed to be tried for crimes against humanity."

https://fair.org/home/suyapa-portillo-villeda-on-honduran-election/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Repair Association's Gay Gordon-Byrne on the Right to Repair:

"More than 90% of the equipment on the market today literally cannot be repaired by anybody other than the manufacturer, if it’s repairable at all. And this is an environmental catastrophe. And it applies to everything that has a chip in it, which is now including toasters and blenders and coffee grinders."

https://fair.org/home/theyre-marketing-to-us-that-were-too-stupid-to-fix-our-stuff/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders:

"I found a bunch of liberal organizations that sought to reform this and that, expand this and that, or reestablish particular programs.... But nobody really framed the issue from the political perspective that has actually framed my life.

"And a bunch of people were feeling that way that I knew.... we started discussing the possibility: What about creating a left-wing elders organization?"

https://fair.org/home/thats-what-us-capitalism-does-right-now-it-jettisons-its-elders/

FAIR, 3 months ago to Israel

Since October 7, as #Israel has waged an unprecedented war on #Palestinian children, journalists, hospitals and schools, the #NYTimes’ highly influential newsletter has bent over backwards to blame everyone but Israel for the carnage.

https://fair.org/home/nyts-morning-newsletter-blames-everyone-but-israel-for-israeli-crimes/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Ruben Bolling imagines the conversation in the New York Times newsroom in January 2025:

https://boingboing.net/2024/03/13/tom-the-dancing-bug-one-day-in-january-2025-in-the-new-york-times-newsroom.html

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Ian Millhiser on the Supreme Court and Donald Trump:
"This court is not going to do anything to protect us from Donald Trump. It has made that perfectly clear. It doesn't matter what the Constitution says. It doesn't matter that there's an entire provision of the 14th Amendment saying that if you are in high office, and you engage in an insurrection, you can't hold office again... Supreme Court's not going to enforce that."

https://fair.org/home/this-court-is-not-going-to-protect-us-from-donald-trump/

FAIR, 3 months ago to Israel

The #WallStreetJournal frames the question of whether to keep supplying an #Israeli war that has killed tens of thousands of #Palestinians as “another test of how much Mr. #Biden is willing to bend to the left.”

https://fair.org/home/wsj-speaks-out-against-threat-of-politicians-responding-to-voters/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

"Cereal for Dinner? It’s One Way to Beat Supermarket Inflation"

Despite offering cereal a cost-saving way to eat, the #LATimes' Steve Lopez didn’t mention that leading cereal-maker Kellogg’s has been singled out for price-gouging—raising its price per unit 17% in 2023, far above the inflation rate, thereby boosting the company’s profits in 2023 by a whopping 540%.

https://fair.org/home/la-times-shortchanges-readers-with-deficient-explanation-for-rising-food-prices/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Corporate media, whose commitment to centrism over the public interest mirrors Kyrsten Sinema's own, blamed the "partisanship" for bringing her down.

https://fair.org/home/voters-wont-miss-sinema-but-corporate-media-already-do/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

‘We Need to Separate Capitalism and Journalism’

"The government is always involved in our news information systems. But the question is, how should it be involved?"

https://fair.org/home/we-need-to-separate-capitalism-and-journalism/

#CorporateOwnership #LocalJournalism

FAIR, 3 months ago to IsraelPalestine

‘What in the Slaughter of Palestinians Is So Important to the US?’

"There's a sense of frustration that everything they're doing to try to compel the US to take a more balanced approach is failing."

https://fair.org/home/what-in-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-is-so-important-to-the-us/

#IsraelPalestine #JoeBiden

FAIR, 3 months ago to Israel

‘Israeli violence is legitimized and Palestinian counter-violence is delegitimized’

"This has really real implications for...the people living in Palestine, but also for how the issue is presented and understood in even just factual reporting."

https://fair.org/slider/israeli-violence-is-legitimized-and-palestinian-counter-violence-is-delegitimized/

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism

If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.

https://fair.org/home/victor-pickard-on-the-crisis-of-journalism/

#CorporateOwnership

FAIR, 3 months ago to alternative

Shielding US Public From Israeli Reports of Friendly Fire on October 7

While Hamas-led attackers were responsible for many civilian deaths, Israeli reports indicate the IDF killed civilians in multiple cases.

https://fair.org/home/shielding-us-public-from-israeli-reports-of-friendly-fire-on-october-7/

#Alternative #IsraelPalestine #WarMilitary #WashingtonPost

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Government Gag Rules Keep Vital Info From the Public

Reporting on the government institution charged with saving us from the Covid pandemic was restricted enough to leave real holes in what we knew.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—like many other organizations these days, public and private—prohibits its employees from speaking freely to reporters. At many en

https://fair.org/home/government-gag-rules-keep-vital-info-from-the-public/

#Covid19 #OfficialAgendas

FAIR, 3 months ago to IsraelPalestine

Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault

This week on CounterSpin: International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber told Electronic Intifada recently that the International Court of Justice hearings on the legality of Israel’s 56-year occupation of Palestinian land are
the largest case in history—more than 50 countries are taking part in this, and the US is virt

https://fair.org/home/gregory-shupak-and-trita-parsi-on-gaza-assault/

#IsraelPalestine #JoeBiden #Mideast

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Ariel Adelman on the ADA and the Supreme Court:

"Disabled people are generally living in forced poverty; they don't have the means, the time or the health, really, to bring a lawsuit to sue every single person that violates the ADA. If we were doing that, every disabled person would just constantly be in court, suing people."

https://fair.org/home/disenfranchised-under-resourced-populations-are-burdened-with-enforcing-major-federal-regulation/

FAIR, 3 months ago to disability

‘Disenfranchised, Under-Resourced Populations Are Burdened with Enforcing Major Federal Regulation’

"How would we go about suing every single time we have our rights violated, when that happens every single day?"

https://fair.org/home/disenfranchised-under-resourced-populations-are-burdened-with-enforcing-major-federal-regulation/

#CivilRights #Disability #SupremeCourt

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

"Especially for organizers outside of major cities, it has been a challenge to get any coverage of actions in support of a ceasefire or sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians. When coverage does happen, it often implicitly conveys support for Israel or may even be outright hostile to those supporting the Palestinian struggle."

--Sam Carliner, #Truthout

https://truthout.org/articles/local-papers-across-the-us-are-refusing-to-cover-the-movement-for-ceasefire/

FAIR, 3 months ago to random

“In a 2002 report completed by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), researchers found that during the Second Intifada the word 'retaliation' was used 79% of the time to describe Israeli violence against Palestinians in American news outlets. Meanwhile, Palestinian violence was characterized as 'retaliation' only 9% of the time....

"'Retaliation' empowers some in their violence while reprimanding others."

https://time.com/6695499/palestine-power-of-language-essay/

FAIR, 3 months ago to maryland

Baltimore’s Media Nightmare and the Billionairification of News

David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city's media (AP, 1/15/24).

Sinclair is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company and one of the la

https://fair.org/home/baltimores-media-nightmare-and-the-billionairification-of-news/

#CorporateOwnership #Maryland #Sinclair

FAIR, 3 months ago to disability

Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”

https://fair.org/home/ariel-adelman-on-disability-civil-rights/

#Disability #Law #SupremeCourt

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