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Media Advisory: Iraq War, Ten Years Later: 'In a Few Days We're Gonna Own That Country'
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the bombing and invasion of Iraq. The war could not have proceeded as it did without the support of a compliant, servile press corps. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Iraq War, Ten Years Later: ‘In a Few Days We’re Gonna Own That Country’
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the bombing and invasion of Iraq. The war could not have proceeded as it did without the support of a compliant, servile press corps. Continue reading
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Media: The Pope and Politics By Peter Hart
15 March 2013 — FAIR Blog Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen as the new pope this week. But coverage often glossed over the most intense political controversies about him. On NBC Nightly News (3/13/13), the network’s Vatican analyst George Weigel told viewers that Pope Francis was “a man of God… a man who is Continue reading
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Media: Tom Friedman's Apple Hunch By Peter Hart
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is, for reasons that remain entirely unclear, considered a wise man in elite media circles. His columns and books are read by others in the business, who then turn around and pretend they know something because they read it in a Tom Friedman column. Continue reading
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Where Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong By Peter Hart
Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration’s case for going to war against Iraq. Much of what he said about Iraq’s threats to the United States was false. But the media coverage gave the opposite impression, and most of the pundits and journalists who promoted the justifications for the war paid no… Continue reading
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When 'Confirmed' Means 'An Official Told Me So' By Peter Hart
On January 30, reports emerged that Israel had carried out an airstrike on Syrian targets near Damascus. Much of the initial reporting took Israel’s claims at face value, though it appeared impossible to confirm that the story was true. A reader might conclude, based on some of the more credulous accounts of this strike, that… Continue reading
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The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
They’re back: The P.U.-litzers, FAIR’s annual rundown of some of the stinkiest moments in American journalism. As usual, there were more contenders than we could possibly consider. So think of this as just a sampling of the bias, spin and misinformation that we noted over the course of the year. Continue reading
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Syria's Mobile Weapons Labs: Where Have We Heard This Before? By Peter Hart
If you were concerned that the Syria WMD stories didn’t already feel enough like the Iraq WMD reports,Washington Post columnist David Ignatius had one just for you (12/19/12). Ignatius reports that according to a Syrian defector, the Assad government’s chemical weapons are indeed on the move. Continue reading
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NATO In Syria: The Lion Is Ready To Pounce By Oleg Severgin
Washington and Brussels state that if the regime of Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons against the armed units of the opposition, it may serve as a cause of war. However, a number of experts believe that today the use of such a weapon is technically impossible for Syria. Continue reading
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Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reader
This Reading List, a substantially expanded version of previous lists published on 11 and 15 November, has been prepared with the aim of making a wide range of readings on the subject of the integrity—or the lack of integrity—of the recent U.S. presidential election readily available. Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory 12 March 2012: After Afghan Massacre, War Gets Victim Status
The news that a U.S. Army sergeant killed 16 civilians, most of them children, in southern Afghanistan early Sunday morning was treated by many media outlets primarily as a PR challenge for continued war and occupation of that country. Continue reading
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Reports: U.S., NATO Allies Preparing For Ground Assault In Syria
The US and other NATO countries could soon launch a ground assault on Syria. The final decision will be made soon, following this week’s Tunis conference where allied countries will meet to discuss possible scenarios of military intervention. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: 2011 P.U.-litzers: Journalism That Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
It’s that time of year again—when FAIR goes through the year’s archives to collect a sampling of the worst moments of corporate media spin and malfeasance. Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Iran, Nukes and the Failure of Skepticism
Much of the corporate media coverage of a new UN report on Iran strongly asserts that Iran is close to building nuclear weapons. But the International Atomic Energy Agency report does not actually arrive at that conclusion, and many critics contend that the speculations that are in the report are misguided. Continue reading
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Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it expanded, much of it consisted of snide dismissals of demonstrators’ ignorance, hygiene and so on. Continue reading
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Hundreds of Worldwide Occupy Protests Occupy One Inch of Front Page By Peter Hart
In case you’re having trouble finding it, it’s in the lower right-hand corner: a blurb approximately one column inch long, directing people to page A20 to find news about protests in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in ‘more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia.’ Continue reading
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Action Alert: What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street? Corporate media skip anti-corporate protests
In an action called Occupy Wall Street, thousands of activists took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on September 17. The protests are continuing, with demonstrators camped out on the Financial District’s Liberty Street in support of U.S. democratization and against corporate domination of politics (Adbusters, 9/19/11). But you wouldn’t know much about any of… Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch's U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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