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.
Billionaire’s Mouthpiece Searches for Reasons to Avoid Taxing Billionaires
The Washington Post, which serves the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing billionaire wealth is a bad idea.
FBI Is Making an Enemies List—and Most Corporate Media Didn’t Even Check It Once
The Trump FBI’s enemies list could encompass over half the US public, and virtually no corporate media outlets covered this catastrophic decree.
Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal
After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.
For Media, Trying to Help Gazans Survive Turns Heroes Into Zeroes
It would be hard to make up a story with more dramatic potential. Yet corporate media somehow knew this was a story to steer clear of.
Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model
Coverage of issues in this election season dovetailed well with the Trump campaign’s lines of attack against the Biden/Harris administration.
The New York Times’ War on Words: Avoid ‘Palestine,’ ‘Genocide,’ ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
By Jim Naureckas / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting New York Times editors issued a memo to staffers that warned against the use of “inflammatory language and incendiary accusations on…
The Need for a Less Hypocritical Center at the New York Times
Centrists love to decry “both sides”–yet somehow it’s almost always the left that earns the bulk of their contempt.
For Media, Giving in to Debt Limit Blackmail Was a Triumph of Bipartisanship
Media legitimizing the GOP’s economic hostage-taking allowed the party to stick with it without fear of massive political blowback.
NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II
The insistence that not all Japanese people were banned from California severely damages the credibility of the New York Times.
NYT Scolds China for Not ‘Learning to Live’—or Die—With Covid
By Jim Naureckas / FAIR Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the…