FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“Conservative politicians and their ultra-rich donors are infusing money into universities to create, essentially, conservative think tanks.”
The press entertained the notion that any condemnation of Israel that happens within earshot of a synagogue must be rooted in anti-Jewish sentiment.
While students and teachers think higher education means engagement with a range of perspectives, right-wing politicians say “not so fast.”
“What we showed is that you don’t have to take this. You could go to court, and you can get these demands shut down before they even get a chance to start.”
Media Matters’ victory over Elon Musk and the FTC is not just hopeful but instructive, offering what the group calls a “roadmap” for other organizations.
“The Court literally just held that if Tennessee wants to ban transgender healthcare for minors, it can do so.”
The Trump administration’s words and deeds have created a climate of fear in the United States that political cartoonists are feeling.
The Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” LGBTQ young people violates healthcare workers’ rights.
The FTC’s intervention against media criticism outfits comes from the same censorious impulse that weaponized the Trump FCC to stifle criticism.
“The regulatory system is being used to steer media ownership towards billionaires who are going to be friendly to Trump.”
As the US and Israel’s war on Iran continues to worsen, Hegseth’s attacks on the media have also escalated.
If we cut off our ability to have a widespread public debate, whatever “solutions” we’re told “we” came up with have nothing to do with democracy.
The Lemon and Fort arrests ratchet up a trend by US officials, both local and national, to view reporters as accomplices to anti-government protesters.
The Trump administration’s raid on Natanson’s home is the latest escalation in a history of government attacks on whistleblowing.
Actually, the First Amendment does give you a license to “expose elite military personnel, compromise operations or assist our adversaries.”
Allowing allegedly local broadcast firms to acquire even more stations will put control over news in still fewer, more corporate hands.
The Trump FBI’s enemies list could encompass over half the US public, and virtually no corporate media outlets covered this catastrophic decree.
“It’s not just that it’s written in such a way that it opens the door to political policing. That was the original intent.”
The Trump administration is throwing real reporters out of the Pentagon even as Trump is using the military in unprecedented ways.
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.
