While there is substantial agreement among scientists about the likelihood of a natural origin for the pandemic, the lab leak hypothesis remains a classic zombie idea, persistently resistant to being debunked out of rational society. fair.org/home/fanning...

Fanning the Fauci Flames for Republicans

The right manages to be feverishly obsessed with the supposedly artificial release of the virus and also outraged by public health measures to contain it.

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CNN studiously avoiding the words “AIPAC” or “Israel” in its coverage of El-Sayrd’s victory. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

"Any action that acknowledges the ways in which race casts a shadow over everything in our society...is in and of itself a problem under the law, based on this ideology of colorblindness." fair.org/home/this-de...

‘This Decision Is an Erasure of Black Political Power Unlike Anything We’ve Seen in Our Lifetimes’: CounterSpin interview with Vincent Southerland on Black voting barriers

"What Callais does is weaken...the entire framework of Section Two, and reduce the Voting Rights Act to little more than words on a paper."

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60 Minutes knew what they were getting when they hired Ross Douthat away from the New York Times: someone who could be counted on to distort reality to support a right-wing worldview. fair.org/home/the-rig...

The ‘Rigor’ and ‘Empathy’ Ross Douthat Will Bring to 60 Minutes

A roundup of FAIR's coverage of ex-New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, whom 60 Minutes calls “one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today."

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The belief that this country is a democracy is powerful, that if a person got elected, or a law got passed, it must have been because more people wanted it than didn’t. It’s hard, it’s depressing, to learn that that isn’t how it works. fair.org/home/vincent...

Vincent Southerland on Black Voting Barriers

Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   This week on CounterSpin: “In Primetime Speech, Trump Doesn't Provide Evidence for Illegal Voting” was the temperate headline NPR put o...

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US media can’t verify US claims of US attacks in Iran any more than they can verify these IRGC claims. Yet they routinely report the former but not the latter. Wouldn’t want to diminish the already meager support for the war, or incur Donald Trump’s wrath. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

"If 70-year-old Lutheran church ladies can be in the streets challenging ICE, then certainly corporate media can get it together to deconstruct these novel legal theories that are being used to criminalize dissent." fair.org/home/what-wa...

‘What Was Criminalized Here Is Dissent, Not Terrorism’ CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland

"It’s up to us to connect with our neighbors, and build something collective that together, on scale, will change the world."

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"Ordinary people can do extraordinary things, and that when we do them together collectively, the power of nonviolent noncooperation on scale has literally failed empires. " fair.org/home/what-wa...

‘What Was Criminalized Here Is Dissent, Not Terrorism’ CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland

"It’s up to us to connect with our neighbors, and build something collective that together, on scale, will change the world."

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I wrote about the #Prairieland case for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social. It's even worse than you think. fair.org/slider/prair... #FirstAmendment

Prairieland Was a Test, and Corporate Media Failed

“Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,” an Intercept headline (6/26/26) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined...

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Saying that Zohran Mamdani “accuses Jews of genocide” is like saying that critics of Vladimir Putin accuse Orthodox Christians of invading Ukraine. fair.org/home/in-nyc-...

In NYC Stabbings, Only Some Victims and Narratives Matter

Corporate media are eager to platform those who constantly assert that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel is an attack on all Jews.

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All of this digression about how incendiary Mamdani’s comments about Netanyahu may have been helped bury the news Mamdani was trying to highlight: that the Israeli leader and his government have been accused of heinous crimes against humanity. fair.org/home/in-nyc-...

In NYC Stabbings, Only Some Victims and Narratives Matter

Corporate media are eager to platform those who constantly assert that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel is an attack on all Jews.

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Note to the news media — just because Trump is removing dead & wounded after July 7 from Iran war casualties on the specious grounds a ceasefire was in effect, doesn’t mean you have to. By the way, anyone who dies a year from now from war wounds is still a war casualty. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

"It’s very important that we don't reframe some of the violence that ICE has undertaken as being exclusive or specific to federal law enforcement agents, because we know three people die as a result of police violence every single day." fair.org/home/we-need...

‘We Need ICE Out of Our Streets’: CounterSpin interview with Lauren Bonds on ICE murders

"We shouldn't be advocating for transparency for transparency's sake. But transparency is an essential prerequisite for accountability, for reform."

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The man who shares responsibility for the deaths and immiseration of countless people in the US and around the globe as a result of US-backed wars, ICE raids, Medicaid cuts and a far-right Supreme Court was remembered in media with widespread fondness and admiration. fair.org/home/remembe...

Remembering Lindsey Graham Not for the Evil He Did But for the Fun He Had Doing It

Corporate media's elegiac coverage didn't just whitewash Lindsey Graham's record—it illustrated the affinity and symbiosis between him and the press corps.

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"Article 5, the famous Article 5 that says an attack on one is an attack on all, starts with 'an attack on one of us.' It doesn't start with 'any war that any member of NATO might choose to start.'” fair.org/home/this-wa...

‘This War Was Illegal, Period, Full Stop’: CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on costs of war

Trump wants to be the hegemonic leader of the world--on his own terms, whatever those terms may be, as they change hour to hour.

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The Venezuelan earthquake has devastated the country, killing thousands. But rather than sympathize w/ the country, mainstream media has demonized the Bolivarian Rev—while whitewashing Washington’s economic terrorism. Important analysis @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/neo-col...

Neo-Colonial Coverage of Venezuela Earthquakes Adds Insult to Injury

Rather than sympathize with a beleaguered country, the Western media establishment seized the opportunity to continue demonizing the Bolivarian Revolution.

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The repeated note in coverage that Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero was “not the intended target” of ICE when he was killed is unsettling, transmitting without friction the idea that people can be valid “targets” of state violence. fair.org/home/lauren-...

Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders

The focus seems heavy on the notion that we need to "humanize" the victims of racist state violence, rather than challenge the humanity of those who enact it.

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During the raffle, you can win signed copies of “The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza” by @fairmediawatch.bsky.social's Robin Anderson and “The Problem with Plastic” by @beyondplastics.bsky.social's @judithenck.bsky.social both from @orbooks.bsky.social

Many Western journalists completely overlooked sanctions in their coverage of the earthquakes and the Venezuelan state’s capacity to respond to a natural catastrophe. fair.org/home/neo-col...

Neo-Colonial Coverage of Venezuela Earthquakes Adds Insult to Injury

Rather than sympathize with a beleaguered country, the Western media establishment seized the opportunity to continue demonizing the Bolivarian Revolution.

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Since March, Israel has killed at least 4,321 people in Lebanon—despite so-called “ceasefires”—and has issued “evacuation orders” covering no less than one-fifth of the country. US corporate media, however, have done their best to put a positive spin on things. fair.org/home/media-c...

Media Cheering a Deal That Puts Lebanon on the Chopping Block for Israel

The corporate media outlets that hint at the fact that the Israeli occupation of Lebanon will proceed apace do so in as roundabout a fashion as possible.

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Where AP reporting—frequently from on the ground in Cuba—emphasized the experience of everyday Cubans, the Times and Herald elevated official voices, and gave those from the US far more room to speak than those from Cuba. fair.org/home/whose-v...

Whose Voices Are Centered in Coverage of Cuban Crisis? A FAIR Study

The New York Times, Miami Herald and Associated Press each covered the Cuban crisis extensively, but the coverage varied dramatically across outlets.

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Creating a "minefield" is when you've set up a situation where it's tricky to avoid doing something unethical. That's not what's happening here. Rather, Trump is unconstitutionally taking money from foreign businesses, which is illegal on its face.

Ignoring the research, the New York Times goes along with the Trump administration's claim that there's no real reason to avoid low-level radiation. fair.org/home/challen...

Challenging NYT’s Suggestion That We Should Stop Worrying and Love Radiation

An environmental health advocate challenges a New York Times article that "serves to promote the current government policies to greatly expand nuclear activities."

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Here's some media malpractice: "McConnell says." These outlets know that McConnell's office released a statement; they don't know that McConnell said anything, or is able to say anything.

Many of the opinion pieces considering the 250th anniversary made nods toward the grimmer parts of the founding of the country, but refused to name the treatment of Native Americans. fair.org/home/the-peo...

The People the Declaration Called ‘Savages’ Were Mostly Ignored in the Celebration 250 Years Later

In 79 opinion articles in leading US newspapers on the Declaration of Independence's 250th anniversary, none gave Native Americans more than a line or two.

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Can’t help wondering if the NYT ever called Lindsey Graham a “hard-liner”? I couldn’t find any examples. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

FAIR founder Jeff Cohen on Rising Up With Sonali: "When Reagan was making jokes about blowing up the Soviet Union and all its inhabitants, our slogan was: Better media active than radio active." www.facebook.com/share/r/19BP...

US corporate news report the US war on Iran as if it were a playground altercation. And the Washington Post calls the illegal violation of another sovereign state a “political problem” Trump “can’t shake.” fair.org/home/phyllis...

Phyllis Bennis on Iran War Costs

People worry the war on Iran has pushed the Gaza genocide out of corporate media’s attention. But media outlets make their own choices about what to present.

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I did't write the captions for the story... but I wish I had 👀

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Jeff Bezos laid off nearly half the Washington Post newsroom, claiming he was doing this for the long-term viability of the paper. Privately, however, Bezos told Trump that Post employees “are terrible…. They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.” fair.org/home/one-yea...

Jeff Bezos laid off nearly half the Washington Post newsroom, claiming he was doing this for the long-term viability of the paper. Privately, however, Bezos told Trump that Post employees “are terrible…. They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.” fair.org/home/one-yea...

One Year Into Clampdown, WaPo Opinion Cheers for MAGA, Billionaires and AI

The Washington Post editorial page has backed Trump in the destruction of the East Wing, the kidnapping of Venezuela's president and the military takeover of DC.

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