WaPo Kills Cartoon That Mocked the Boss—and Trump
By Pete Tucker / Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting When Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post cartoonist, submitted a draft sketch shortly before Christmas, she must have known she…
US Media Suppressed Their Government’s Role in Ousting Brazil’s Government
By Brian Mier / Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting In a new peer-reviewed academic article in Latin American Perspectives (11/19/23), “Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United…
‘Free Speech’ Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad
By Ari Paul / Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Axios (10/31/23) reported that in a two-week period, TikTok saw “nearly four times the number of views to TikTok posts using…
Australians Call to End Long Persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
By Robin Andersen / Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting As WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange has nearly exhausted his appeals to British courts against a US extradition order,…
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.
Police Seek a Radio Silence That Would Mute Critics in the Press
By Ari Paul / Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting As a freelance journalist many years ago, I was walking the streets of Brooklyn, looking for a juicy story, anything that…
Vox’s Student Loan ‘Expert’ Is Paid by Debt Collectors
A Vox piece insisted that “student debt forgiveness isn’t happening”–but didn’t disclose the author’s ties to the student loan industry.
NYT Worries Big Brother Is Not Watching You
By Dorothee Benz / Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting A recent guest essay in the New York Times (12/28/22) concluded a searing takedown of “our technology overlords” with the sentence:…
Who Is This ‘Haiti’ That’s Appealing for Intervention?
The media calls for military intervention in Haiti, Jane Regan breaks down the reality of the situation.