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FAIR, 2 days ago to random

This May alone, the New York Times ran stories on multimillion-dollar designer “eco-yachts” (“‘silent luxury’ is fast displacing opulence”), luxury hotel experiences (“From cooking with a Michelin-star chef to taking a chauffeured shopping spree in Singapore, hotels and resorts are offering ever-more-lavish activities for guests” ), and a new breed of butler employed by “the One Percent of the One Percent.”

https://fair.org/home/the-nyts-one-true-subject-is-the-one-percent/

FAIR, 3 days ago to random

Commentary from much of the news media is pushing the idea that the Trump verdict is a disputable issue that has to do with personal feelings about this particular man. The contortions media are going through to make a convicted felon who boasts of his crimes one side of a reasonable argument are telling us something about Trump and his followers, sure, but also telling us something about news media.

https://fair.org/home/matt-gertz-on-trump-trial-verdict-kandi-mossett-on-dakota-access-struggle/

FAIR, 5 days ago to random

"What is considered as speech has really exploded when it comes to the corporate landscape: Are tax returns and contracts considered speech? What does that mean for our government's power to look into financial wrongdoing, and prevent tax fraud and prevent money laundering, if all of those things are considered as speech, and the government cannot force anybody to “say" and disclose such information?"
--#CounterSpin interview with Katherine Li of @thelever

https://fair.org/home/their-effort-to-avoid-accountability-is-very-thinly-veiled/

FAIR, 5 days ago to random

Claudia Sheinbaum has made history. A leftist from the ruling party and former head of government for Mexico City, she will be Mexico’s first woman and first Jewish president. But all the US press wants to know is whether she is just going to be a puppet of the big, scary outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO.

https://fair.org/home/why-is-mexicos-sheinbaum-framed-as-an-amlo-clone/

FAIR, 9 days ago to random

Trump’s conviction is less a partisan witch hunt or a crossing-the-Rubicon moment for US history, and more another New York politician getting caught up in a scandal that is all too typical of the city and state that made him.

https://fair.org/home/new-york-man-goes-down-the-new-york-way/

FAIR, 10 days ago to random

Corporations are claiming the First Amendment says they don’t have to comply with regulations they don’t want to comply with, because those regulations reflect ideas that are “controversial”--and they can’t be compelled to take a public position on a controversial idea, like, for example, that climate disruption is real. It’s a weird, important maneuver, at once complicated and pretty simple--and it’s usefully unpacked in a recent piece by this week's CounterSpin guest.

https://fair.org/home/katherine-li-on-corporations-first-amendment-dodge/

FAIR, 11 days ago to random

When Nicaragua charged Germany with facilitating genocide at the International Court of Justice, many in establishment media seemed to feel that the wrong country was on trial.

https://fair.org/home/when-nicaragua-took-germany-to-court-media-put-nicaragua-in-the-dock/

FAIR, 11 days ago to random

For the New York Times‘ Bret Stephens, the “decision to seek the arrest of three Hamas leaders along with Netanyahu” was part of a strategy to destroy Israel, “as it places Israel’s leaders on a moral par with a trio of terrorists.”

https://fair.org/home/attacks-on-icc-show-condemning-hamas-is-really-about-absolving-israel/

FAIR, 12 days ago to random

The #NYTimes has become notorious for its role in laundering right-wing #transphobia for its largely liberal audience. A recent article about local school politics serves as yet another example of how the paper’s anti-trans agenda most likely flies under the radar of most readers—making its propaganda that much more effective.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-misses-whats-true-and-important-about-an-anti-trans-school-resolution/

FAIR, 23 days ago to random

Reporting on coral bleaching should not only link the phenomenon to climate change, but link climate change to its main culprit: the fossil fuel industry. While much reporting deserves credit for clearly making this connection, some reports from major outlets were still behind, implying the climate crisis might be some sort of act of God, rather than something humans have caused—and have the power to mitigate.

https://fair.org/home/as-corals-bleach-worldwide-some-outlets-are-willing-to-name-the-cause-fossil-fuels/

FAIR, 24 days ago to random

The big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump has proven surprisingly tenacious, in part due to a corporate press corps that are constitutionally incapable of saying sometimes there are not “two sides with the truth in the middle.”

Besides saying “Trump! Amirite?” is there more we might do to break through the disinformation, and gird ourselves for future, similar efforts?

https://fair.org/home/steven-rosenfeld-on-election-transparency-ian-vandewalker-on-small-donors/

FAIR, 25 days ago to random

What #NYTimes critics are calling for is not censorship, as executive editor Joe Kahn pretends, but a recognition that the paper is not merely holding up a mirror to the world, but making choices about what’s important for readers to know—and that those choices have real-world consequences.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-editor-denies-his-papers-role-in-setting-the-agenda-it-reports-on/

FAIR, 26 days ago to random

Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on the Rafah invasion:

"Another overreach, another violation of our constitutional rights, another mode of repression against Palestinian organizing and activism. But the fact of the matter is, this isn't going to stop us. If they think that a piece of legislation like this is going to cause us to cease our advocacy, our activities, our organizing, our shutting it down for Palestine, then they've miscalculated."

https://fair.org/home/are-you-going-to-end-the-genocide-president-biden-thats-the-central-question/

FAIR, 27 days ago to random

The #NYTimes says it's not their fault if bad things are done with their good reporting. The problem is that their reporting is put to bad ends because it's bad reporting.

https://fair.org/home/nyts-bad-reporting-on-brazil-predictably-used-by-gop-to-attack-democracy-there/

FAIR, 28 days ago to random

Controlling one of Baltimore’s major television stations, while simultaneously wielding hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, adds up to serious political clout. But apparently it’s not enough for David Smith.

In January, Smith personally purchased the Baltimore Sun, Maryland’s largest newspaper, for an undisclosed sum.

https://fair.org/home/the-media-mogul-trying-to-buy-baltimores-mayoral-race/

FAIR, 29 days ago to random

As FAIR has documented throughout the years, the primary “intractable bias” public broadcasting suffers from is a bias toward the same corporate and political elites that dominate the rest of establishment media—despite the fact that it was created to “provide a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise be unheard.”

https://fair.org/home/gop-grilling-npr-is-a-tired-ritual-that-needs-to-be-rejected/

FAIR, 30 days ago to random

Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Joe Torres and Colette Watson on media reparations:

"There's a lack of understanding of the fact that journalism being white-dominated, and being steeped in a worldview of Black inferiority and a worldview of racial hierarchy, has very much been a part of why we find this industry to be faltering at this point."

https://fair.org/home/when-hasnt-journalism-been-in-crisis-for-black-people/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

An invasion of Rafah, we were told, would be an uncrossable “red line” for Biden, but, luckily enough, a New York Times headline says “Attack Not Seen as Full Invasion” -- “seen as” being the kind of slippery language media use to suggest something they’d rather not say, which is that only some people’s definitions matter.

https://fair.org/home/ahmad-abuznaid-on-rafah-invasion/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Following the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020, journalists and readers alike began taking a hard look at how reliance on police sources was leading the media to publish wrong information.

Yet four years later, when protests broke out on college campuses calling for divestment from companies that support the Israeli government’s campaign of killing civilians in Gaza, US media forgot those lessons—and ended up repeatedly misinforming readers as a result.

https://fair.org/home/on-campus-gaza-protests-media-let-police-tell-the-story-even-when-theyre-wrong/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Legislation forcing TikTok to be sold or face a ban is not a form of good-faith regulation meant to protect the populace, but an effort to either seize or severely weaken TikTok in the name of US interests.

https://fair.org/home/tiktok-law-is-an-attempt-to-censor-not-a-warning-to-big-tech/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

What could make activists suspect that the network that produced “Anti-Israel Agitators: Signs of ‘Foreign Assistance’ Emerge in Columbia, NYU Unrest,” “Pressure Builds for Colleges to Close or Shut Down Anti-Israel Encampments Amid Death Threats Toward Jews” and “Ivy League Anti-Israel Agitators’ Protests Spiral Into ‘Actual Terror Organization,’ Professor Warns” wouldn’t give them a fair shake?

https://fair.org/home/media-scorn-gaza-protesters-for-recognizing-corporate-reporters-arent-their-friends/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

The mob attacks at UCLA, along with police use of force at that campus and elsewhere, clearly represent the most "destruction, violence and hate" at the encampments, which have been overwhelmingly peaceful. But CNN's description of the UCLA violence rewrote the narrative to fit an agenda.

https://fair.org/home/as-peace-protests-are-violently-suppressed-cnn-paints-them-as-hate-rallies/

PeachMcD, 1 month ago to random

#BDS4Israel #FreePalestine

Thanks @FAIR , for consistently & rightly mocking the specious #gaslighting tactics of #CorporateMedia

https://fair.org/home/divestment-cant-work-media-tell-protesters-even-though-it-has/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

The economic logic against divestment presented by the Wall Street Journal is so compelling, you have to wonder why supporters of Israel aren’t supporting the divestment movement, rather than pushing for laws that make divestment from Israel illegal.

https://fair.org/home/divestment-cant-work-media-tell-protesters-even-though-it-has/

FAIR, 1 month ago to Israel

Since October 7—as #Israel has killed more journalists, in a shorter period of time, than any country in modern history—the #NYTimes has minimized when not ignoring this mass murder.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-not-much-concerned-about-israels-mass-murder-of-journalists/