Extra! March 2024 Soundbites
Despite the large size and international reach of the event, a global day of protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza was completely ignored by the New York Times.
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Extra! November 2022 Soundbites
Coverage of Dugina Bombing Put Journalists ‘on Front Lines’ When Russian journalist Darya Dugina was killed by a car bomb in Moscow in August, CNN (8/27/22) framed her death not as a terroristic attack on the media but as a blow to “Russia’s vast disinformation machine,” saying Dugina was “on the front lines” of Russia’s […]
NYT Responded to Subway Shooting With ‘Relentless String of Copaganda’
Alec Karakatsanis looked closely at how the New York Times used a crisis to boost police talking points and lies in some creative ways.
Extra! Soundbites January/February 2022
800,000 Dead From Covid—Who Cares? On a day when some outlets (e.g., New York Times, 12/13/21) soberly reported that the recorded US death toll was about to surpass 800,000—a number greater than the entire population of Seattle, Denver or Washington, DC; greater than the US toll from the Spanish Flu or the Civil War—the Atlantic […]
September 11’s Never-Ending Story
A retrospective look at FAIR’s coverage of two decades of media self-censorship, scapegoating and stenography.
Extra! Soundbites July 2021
Assaults on Choice Aren’t News (Here) Republican state lawmakers introduced more than 500 bills that would restrict abortion rights by mid-May—including some that would charge women who terminated their pregnancies with murder. But from the beginning of the year until May 16, NBC News didn’t once mention these attempts to roll back reproductive freedom. (They […]
Extra! Soundbites June 2021
Things You Never Expect Michelle Kosinski, a TV journalist who’s served as CNN‘s White House reporter and a foreign correspondent for NBC, posted a tweet (5/8/21) that declared: As an American journalist, you never expect: Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to […]
Extra! April 2021 Soundbites
Trump Briefings? News. Biden Briefings? Not News. Nowadays, corporate media would have you believe they are appalled by Donald Trump: They had to cover the liar and cheat because he was president, but they held their nose the whole time, and now they can’t wait to get back to serious reporting on policy. The only […]
Extra! Soundbites March 2021
The real test is not whether corporate media were able to condemn a president’s seditious acts, but whether they go back to business as usual.
Extra! March 2021 Soundbites
The GOP Threat to Democracy “Trump Caused the Assault on the Capitol. He Must Be Removed,” declared the Washington Post editorial board (1/6/21) immediately after the January 6 insurrection. “Responsibility for this act of sedition lies squarely with the president, who has shown that his continued tenure in office poses a grave threat to US […]
Extra! January/February 2021 Soundbites
Missed Story: Latino Voting Surge Boosted Biden A common theme in post-election coverage was how well Donald Trump did with people of color, particularly Latinos. “How Democrats Missed Trump’s Appeal to Latino Voters” was one New York Times story (11/9/20); another (11/16/20) read, “Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas.” While […]
In Dems’ Post-Election Fight, Corporate Media Took Side of Centrists
Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist.
Extra! December 2020 Soundbites
Are You Ready for Some Not-So-Tough Questions? CBS’s Lesley Stahl started 60 Minutes’ pre-election interview with President Donald Trump (10/25/20) by asking, “Are you ready for some tough questions?” Note that this is not a tough question: The correct answer for any candidate is “yes.” Despite Trump’s hostile reaction, Stahl’s questions did not get all […]
Extra! November 2020 Soundbites
Be Wary of USA Today’s False Balance “With 50 Days Till Election Day, Voters ‘Anxious,’ Wary of Trump, Biden Alike,” a headline in USA Today’s print edition (9/14/20) read. But that framing glossed over a key difference between the two candidates: At the time, about 3 percentage points more people viewed Joe Biden favorably than […]
Extra! October 2020 Soundbites
‘Dizzyingly Different Versions of Reality’ “Dueling Versions of Reality Define First Week of Fall Campaign” was the Associated Press’s headline over a piece by its chief political reporter Steve Peoples (9/4/20). “Embracing Both Sides journalism and injecting it with steroids,” as critic Eric Boehlert (PressRun, 9/8/20) put it, the story reported that Donald Trump says […]
Extra! August/September 2020 Soundbites
Lack of a BLM Covid Spike Should Make Us Listen to Epidemiologists Though joined by many other outlets, the Atlantic was particularly urgent in its warnings that protests against police violence would create a new spike of Covid-19 cases. “The wave of mass protests across the United States will almost certainly set off new chains […]
Extra! Soundbites June 2020
The difference between the US and Vietnamese governments is not how much they surveil their citizens—but whether they use the information they collect to protect their citizens’ health.
Extra! March 2020 Soundbites
Moderators as Enforcers Debate questions seem designed less to inform voters than to steer candidates toward a corporate media-approved center. CNN’s Abby Phillip (1/14/20) asked: Senator Sanders, you have consistently refused to say exactly how much your Medicare for All plan is going to cost. Don’t voters deserve to see the price tag before you […]
Extra! Soundbites November 2019
CNN Bashes Medicare for All Because It’s ‘Popular’ CNN’s Erin Burnett (7/15/19) pressed Joe Biden spokesperson Symone Sanders to attack Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan for raising taxes (not coincidentally, the line of attack that had been identified as most effective in polling by the corporate advocacy group Third Way—FAIR.org, 10/2/19): As a general idea, […]
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