FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“It’s up to us to connect with our neighbors, and build something collective that together, on scale, will change the world.”
Are you upset about ICE agents using your tax dollars to detain and deport people because they have a quota to fill? Well, my friend, you might be a terrorist.
That a national press corps is so cowed by government cries of “terrorism!” that they fail to interrogate its legal fictions is a danger to the very freedoms they purport to embody.
As US government and its allies are cracking down on speech in ways they haven’t in decades, where has corporate media’s concern for vanishing freedoms gone?
The press entertained the notion that any condemnation of Israel that happens within earshot of a synagogue must be rooted in anti-Jewish sentiment.
It’s long past time for news coverage to reflect journalists’ knowledge that DHS exaggerates, shares dubious statements and flat-out lies.
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.
“What we’re seeing is this criminalized language around acts that are simple acts of solidarity…. Those smaller acts of solidarity every day are so important.”
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.
People who never called themselves “political” are moving out of their comfort zone to register their opposition to violent, state-sanctioned power.
If US media habitually placed the news in political context, claims of US and Israeli intervention in Iran would hardly be regarded as dubious.
These are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its own—not against fascism, but against progressivism.
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.
“This is because of community pushback, communities that are saying, this is not worth the environmental threat that these data centers pose.”
“It’s an extremely dangerous time for the free press, and it’s critically important that journalists not be kowtowing to this administration.”
After a massive Italian mobilization against genocide in Gaza, there was only a smattering of online coverage among US corporate media outlets.
Dismising the vibrant grassroots resistance to Trump’s occupation of DC as “only a few scattered protests” is a distortion.
A FAIR study found that CNN’s primetime coverage of the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests in early June rarely included the voices of the protesters themselves.
“This is a case about whether or not we have a First Amendment right to criticize Israel for engaging in a genocide in Gaza.”
