FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)

US Media Mostly Care for Iranians When They Can Be Used to Justify Bombing US corporate media tend to humanize Iranians only when they can be portrayed as victims of their own government.

Among the first casualties were at least 175 people in a girls’ school in Minab. As the corpses of young children are no use to the imperial narrative when killed by the US and Israel rather than by Iran, however, the requisite moral condemnation has been in short supply.

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When Trump seized Venezuelan oil at gunpoint, the only mild concern expressed in US corporate media was whether he would use it to enrich himself.

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Naomi Bethune on Anti-Black History Month? In the words of Ida B. Wells: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

Rather than face up to the ugliness and violence of white supremacy in this country’s past and present, rather than see it as a scourge we can work together to overcome, the Trump White House insists we pretend racism didn’t and doesn’t exist.

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Corporate Media Mock Chicago Teachers for Trying to Help Their Community Billionaire-owned media outlets have framed teachers' advocacy for their students and communities as self-serving.

By embracing a broader political platform designed to address inequity beyond just schooling, the Chicago Teachers Union has become a target of conservative groups--and a subject of media misrepresentation.

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Media Focus on Epstein’s Powerful Friends Erases Their Victims Most elite media coverage has focused not on Epstein’s victims, but on the lifestyles of Jeffrey Epstein and his rich and famous friends.

With some exceptions, elite media outlets have shown far more interest in the fates of the high-profile men who surrounded Epstein than in the women and girls who were abused.

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ICE has expanded social-media surveillance, buying tools to build online dossiers on anyone with a public profile—part of a plan for a 24/7 monitoring team.

@ruddock.bsky.social explains on @fairmediawatch.bsky.social's CounterSpin:

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‘The Risk Is Reporting This Like It’s a Normal Political Story’:  CounterSpin interview with Ari Berman on attacks on voting "While it's been portrayed as about 2020, I think the bigger reason they want the ballots is about 2026 and 2028."

"There is a feedback loop, between election deniers in Georgia and election deniers in Washington, to try to not just relitigate the 2020 election, but to gain more control over how elections are run in 2026 and 2028."

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WaPo Layoffs Are Another Way for Bezos to Suck Up to Trump - Truthdig Just like the "Melania" documentary paid for by Amazon, the billionaire publisher is making cuts to the Washington Post to curry favor with the White House.

Bezos — who remains Amazon’s executive chair and its largest shareholder — certainly has an incentive to bribe Trump, after experiencing Trump’s wrath in his first term.

Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson The Rev. Jesse Jackson's kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.

“If there’s one person onto whom establishment media have projected their anxieties about race, class and democracy, it’s the Rev. Jesse Jackson,” writes FAIR’s Jim @naureckas.bsky.social
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DoJ Released Much More on Epstein’s Israel Ties—But Media Still Aren’t Much Interested Only a few US corporate media outlets have referenced the latest Epstein/Israel revelations--and these framed them as at best conspiracy-adjacent.

The sparse US corporate media coverage of the Epstein/Israel angle sharply contrasts with the extensive reporting of Epstein’s alleged ties to Russia.

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Reed Lindsay on the War on Cuba The Trump White House is openly trying to harm the Cuban people, and US media are openly trying to sell that to us as something to root for.

Cuba has been under economic embargo longer than most people have been alive, and US media coverage still reflects a framing that hasn’t shifted much in that time.

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Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson The Rev. Jesse Jackson's kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.

Jesse Jackson served as a symbol of everything the Democratic Party needed to turn its back on to merit a seat at the grownups’ table.

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NBC News tonight relegated the impending attack on Iran to its 8th story & gave it a whopping 48 seconds. No mention of any justification, no mention of the lack of Congressional authorization, & most certainly no mention of international law. 😡

After @fairmediawatch.bsky.social critiqued the media's biased coverage of Jesse Jackson...

Jackson sent the critique to his mom to prove to her the coverage of him really was biased!

Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson The Rev. Jesse Jackson's kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.

The punditocracy was always looking for a Black leader to replace Jesse Jackson, someone who could symbolize racial equality without the challenge to social hierarchy that would be necessary to achieve it.

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An absolutely insane take from the WaPo. Iran isn’t threatening the US with its navy (which would be “gunboat diplomacy”), it’s defending itself from an imminent US attack. It’s the US which is practicing gunboat diplomacy, from Iran to Venezuela to Cuba.
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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

The government declaring some information programs to be not "bona fide news" because they are "purely partisan" is not compatible with the First Amendment.

Here's the censored interview Stephen Colbert conducted with James Talarico:

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If there was one person who embodied establishment media's anxiety about race, class and democracy, it was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Epstein pressed billionaire media mogul to influence coverage, files reveal Epstein leveraged ties with Mortimer Zuckerman to try to steer tabloid's coverage of abuse allegations.

"Epstein leveraged close personal and professional ties with the Canadian-American billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman..."

Zuckerman owned the Daily News from 1993 until 2017. He owned the Atlantic from 1980 until 1999. He still owns US News & World Report.

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How on earth does the WaPo run an article about Trump “claiming victory on affordability” without mentioning that that same Trump called “affordability” a “Democrat hoax”? #DisinformationByOmission
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Like Melania Doc, WaPo Layoffs Are Another Way for Bezos to Suck Up to Trump The Washington Post’s losses, reportedly as much as $100 million a year, are mere pocket change for Jeff Bezos.

Like the $75M Melania film, the mass layoffs at the Post are another way for Jeff Bezos to stuck up to Trump

My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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Like Melania Doc, WaPo Layoffs Are Another Way for Bezos to Suck Up to Trump The Washington Post’s losses, reportedly as much as $100 million a year, are mere pocket change for Jeff Bezos.

The WaPo newsroom, which not too long ago numbered over 1,000 journalists, is down to as few as 400 after last week’s jettisoning of more than 300 reporters.

“This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction,” said former Post editor Marty Baron.

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Ari Berman on Attacks on Voting Some media still present changes to the electoral process that would make it harder for millions of people to vote as a matter of "election integrity."

The latest development in the Trump administration’s assault on democracy is the passage of House legislation that would make it much harder to vote--and harder for some than for others.

Our guest this week tracks these dispiriting events, along with the pushback.

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‘What We’re Witnessing Is a Genocide Sustained’: CounterSpin interview with Rayan El Amine on voices from Gaza "The only way that such a—I would call it what it is—colonial project could go unnoticed is under this project of ceasefire."

"The language of ceasefire has been repurposed. It no longer describes a pause in violence, but rather a mechanism for managing it, sanitizing ongoing military force under the guise of restraint."

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Leading Papers Call for Destroying Iran to Save It The New York Times and Washington Post offer facile arguments for US attacks on Iran, on the assumption that the US wants to brighten Iranians' futures.

Pundits present calls for the US to assault Iran in moral terms, as if the US is interested in enabling the Iranian population to flourish--a premise contradicted by more than 70 years of Washington’s policy of inflicting pain on Iranians in an effort to dominate them.

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Everything you always wanted to know about Rupert Murdoch. #IndieMedia

Rupert Murdoch Heads West The strategy of Rupert Murdoch, always arch-conservative in his politics, has been to start or take over and use media to further his political viewpoint.

Karl Grossman wrote in 2011: “Murdoch has made a travesty of what journalism is supposed to be about. And he has institutionalized this on a global level.”

And now Rupert Murdoch is spreading his media corruption to California.

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For NYT’s David Brooks, It’s Way Past Time to Say Goodbye Brooks has served as an apologist for the ruling class, whose crimes and errors of judgement he is always ready to trivialize and forgive.

The same pundit who told us not to judge people who overlook child rape also told us that working-class communities were "destroyed by a plague of nonjudgmentalism."

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At NYT, Pretending You Don’t Know Makes You a Real Reporter Even when you have examples of people being shot down on video by federal agents, the paper has to pretend there's a valid case for justifying murder.

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