How The Guardian Sells Imperialism To Progressives
Nate Bear Do Not Panic This morning The Guardian had a story about Israel’s ongoing efforts to illegally annex the West Bank. Can you pick your way through this headline?…
Covering the Impact of Climate Change—Without Mentioning Climate Change
Olivia Riggio FAIR Euronews (6/26/26) shows how easy it is to link extreme weather to climate change, and climate change to fossil fuels. Severe weather has gripped the globe this…
Press Sees Mamdani as ‘Kingmaker’ Because They Don’t See Voters as Rational
Janine Jackson FAIR To translate from the Murdochian, “hateful” here means being opposed to genocide, police brutality and rent-gouging (New York Post, 6/24/26). The win by a number of progressive…
How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?
Janine Jackson FAIR “One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was…
Western Media Normalize Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon by Viewing It Through Israel’s Eyes
Belén Fernández for FAIR In October 2024, one year into Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and attendant assault on Lebanon, the Israeli army did a thing. It invited…
Forty Years of Raising Hell About Corporate Media Bias
Jeff Cohen for FAIR For 40 years now, FAIR has raised hell about corporate media bias, censorship, and persistent exclusion of peace and justice voices. I left FAIR’s paid staff…
Israel Could Solve Its PR Problem By Simply Ceasing To Be Evil
Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to “influence public consciousness” around the world. Caitlin Johnstone Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the…
CBS’s Purge of 60 Minutes Sends a Chilling Message to Legacy Journalists Everywhere
Joshua Scheer For decades, 60 Minutes stood as one of the last surviving institutions of broadcast journalism willing to challenge power, confront corruption and occasionally remind Americans what reporting looks…
Fuhrman Left His Mark on Media
Ari Paul for FAIR The racism of Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known…
Balancing Act at the New York Times: Nicholas Kristof Wrote About Israel’s Sexual Torture of Prisoners, the Next Day Isabel Kershner Penned More Unverified Rape Allegations Against Hamas
Robin Andersen The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas…
Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order
Joshua Scheer At the Vancouver Web Summit, Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté examine Gaza, the erosion of international law, AI-powered warfare, media censorship, and whether meaningful reform is still possible…
Business Motives Don’t Explain The Right-Wing Turn Of The Washington Post and CBS. Billionaire Ideology Does
Adam Johnson for TRNN Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos made news earlier this week by claiming the reason he fired 30 percent of the Washington Post’s staff and…
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From Occupation to Erasure: How Legacy Media Failed Gaza
ScheerPost Staff The Complicit Lens: How Media Helped Normalize the Destruction of Gaza On the latest episode of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer sat down with media scholar Robin Andersen…
From Ersatz Fear to Epic Fury
How Media Glorification of Vigilantes and Militarism Can Backfire Mischa Geracoulis for Project Censored On December 22, 1984, Bernie Goetz—“the subway vigilante”—shot four unarmed Black teenagers on a New York…
There is a Time for Everything, Even No News That’s Fit to Print
Edward Curtin Substack Without having read the details and having no intention to do so, I am still wondering if The New York’s Times’ advice for Sunday May 17, about…
